Accessible Contact Selection on Android
ICIC Edition
The application lets you quickly select a contact.
It offers large buttons and font, avoids scrolling and is especially helpful for users with limited touch and vision.
Touch events on rows with black letters select. The default contact app immediately opens.
If you touch rows displaying prefixes in blue you proceed to more specific options.
Up to six selections are quickly retrieved in the recent's submenu starting with ⏪ followed by subscripted numbers 0 to 5.
Please grant access rights to read contacts in the Android settings.
A selected contact is opened immediately in the default contacts app.
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Android App: ICIC Edition ICIC_25-01-13 arm/x86
📇 ICIC
Tested on smartphones with sdk versions 27, 28, 29, 34
Tested on chromeOS, x86_64, with sdk version 30
Newer Android versions, .e.g. with sdk 34, may require extra confirmation on installation.
Some browsers change the name of the downloaded file. In case an additional extension of .zip is appended, please rename it to a single .apk file name. This is what the installer will accept.
Installation hints for apps from unknown/untrusted sources
Anleitung zur Installation für Apps aus unbekannten Quellen
Technology
Tk selection megawidget, that builds a browsable rolodex like index from a key value list.
This application was made possible by Christian Werner's AndroWish, a port of the multi-platform scripting language Tcl/Tk to Android.
This edition's designation is to be found in the included path
ℹ📰⚖ICIC
Some surprising characteristics about taipudex compared to prefix tree: DeepSeek R1's answer