Fun With Android - Contacts Modification (Partial)

Welcome all! I hope you enjoyed reading about customizing your desktop and have taken strides yourself to create an environment that is unique to your own style and needs! I'm interested in finding out the disparities between those who truly despise going into menus, and those who only want the essentials on their home screens.

(Funny disparity, my phone layout is the opposite of my computer layout. On my computer, I prefer to have a blank desktop and opt instead to use menus and Object Dock.

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Moving on! I personally feel that Google Contacts is a powerful addition to Android, and that just goes hand-in-hand with my love affair for GMail. The ability to have all your contacts sync'd safely into your email account is truly powerful; Google is quickly becoming a universal standard (if it hasn't already) and with the addition of Google Voice and Google Wave, we will have little need to travel outside of our one single login to have to do much of anything!

As you can see from my Screen III, I like having my most contacted people all on one screen as shortcuts. Allow me to show you the process of doing this in case you were wondering.

To do this, all you have to really do is just long press anywhere you have open space, but I'll start with a fresh template.

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The first step is to long press your desktop until the menu comes up.

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After you select "Shortcuts" you determine what type of shortcut you want to create. There are all sorts of nifty shortcuts you can make, but for now, we'll do "Contact".

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Scroll through your contact list and select the indivual that you wish to make a shortcut of.

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And there you go!

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The cool thing to me about this is that I can contact the people I get in touch with the most without having to bother with who is "Starred" or whatever. For the most part, the benefit to me is that I don't need to go into a menu to reach someone.

It takes a couple of minutes or so to get everything right, but I have a "Top 16" so to speak now. Wow. I can't believe I hearkened back to MySpace days. Shoot me now.

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Now, call me a stickler, but the default Contact app just doesn't seem good enough for me. The one thing that is actually cool about it is when you go to your Favorites, you can clearly see the icon of your contact.

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But when you go to the main Contact list, you don't get jack-squat.

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That's annoying to me for a couple of reasons, but the main one is that all the work that goes into making a contact icon for the large majority of your contact's is wasted. If someone isn't in your Favorite's, then you never see their icon outside of a phone call.

So, I went on a journy through the Land Of A Jillion G1 Contact Programs and settled on one that I Like, aContacts.

I don't feel like blogging anymore. It's noon and a nice day, I'm gonna go ride my bike. Wish me luck!