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For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up

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[–] nycki@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A built-in scripting language. The TI-83 line of calculators have an app programming language that requires you to side-load code from another computer, but they also have TI-BASIC, which allows you to write a wide variety of scripts right on the calculator itself. This should be standard on all 'smart' devices. It's so stupid to have gigahertz of computing power in your pocket and not be able to do anything without writing the app on another machine.

I know Termux for Android exists and that's a good start, but I'd like to see something baked right into the OS that has access to all my device's cool sensors and gizmos. The camera, the microphone, the aux port, the usb port, the accelerometer, the bluetooth antenna... all of those things should be exposed to the user. This would be a really good use case for 'visual' programming ala Scratch, since you could assemble a script right from a touch screen instead of having to plug in a keyboard.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Tasker? I feel like it comes pretty close to what you describe.

[–] nycki@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Device automation is neat, but I mean more like data processing, web APIs, python stuff.

[–] lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try Kustom Widget (KWGT). It's a scripted mini app maker that exposes a lot of the phone internals, and it keeps expanding. The developer is really responsive to feature requests. I use it with my home weather station and a pi-based sensor network to monitor home security. When I get my solar installed, I'll add in the status of that system. The major limitation is that KWGT is event driven, with a minimum update interval of once a second. This interval has a major impact on battery life, so the default is one minute.

[–] nycki@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hrm; I use the Minimalist Home phone screen so I have no widgets; is there a way to launch scripts from a regular app?

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I'm totally with you! You, Sir or Madam, are an individual of style and character.