TextCloud Beta

TextCloud creates cloud-like images made from words used in your conversations with a selected contact. You can shape the clouds to preset stencils, change the background color, select excluded words and more!

I will continue to add new shapes related to holidays and events. Shoot me an email if you have any suggestions.

FAQ:

→Can you pull messages from Facebook Messengers? No [1].

→Can you pull messages from Google Hangouts? Unlikely.

→Can you pull messages from WhatsApp? It's being investigated.

→Can you pull messages from Telegram? It's being worked on.

Planned Features:

→Unicode Integration (Support for special characters).

→Updating stop words for languages other than English.

→Potentially integrating with WhatsApp and Telegram.

Permissions:

→WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Required: Yes

Reason: To write the photo to your external memory.

→READ_SMS

Required: Yes

Reason: Used to read messages from a selected contact for the TextCloud.

→INTERNET

Required: Yes

Reason: Used to connect with the TextCloud server to build the image. The image requires extensive computational power to place the words. Large images with many words can take considerably longer.

→READ_CONTACTS

Required: Yes

Reason: Used to select the contact to create a cloud with.

This application is still in beta and as such some features may not work as intended. Many improvements are in progress. This application uses an undocumented Content Resolver to fetch SMS messages and is not guaranteed to be supported on all Android devices [2].

All communications are sent over a secure channel with 2048bit RSA and no data is retained after the connection is completed. If you have any privacy concerns or inquiries, please send me an email and I will respond as soon as possible.

Thank you.

1. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions#reference-read_mailbox

2. http://android-developers.blogspot.ca/2010/05/be-careful-with-content-providers.html