About this app
CPqD Facilita is a launcher application that offers simplicity for the elderly, low vision and illiterate people, or for anyone who want to simplify the use of the touchscreen smartphones.
With the CPqD Facilita application, people with technology difficulties can use touchscreen smartphone with autonomy, privacy and simplicity, improving their life quality and appropriating the facilities of digital and connected world.
Easy to use, CPqD Facilita combines the screens standardization with speech features, through text to speech for Brazilian Portuguese. When the user slides the finger across the screen, the application speaks the function name related to the place where the finger is located, and it is possible to select the functionality with a single or double-tap.
SEE THE DEMONSTRATION VIDEO TO KNOW MORE AND TO LEARN HOW TO USE.
CPqD Facilita is a free and no advertising application, it has the basic features of a mobile phone and a package of advanced functions, including entertainment.
Basic Functions:
• Make and receive phone calls.
• Check calls history.
• Keep the phone contacts.
• Send and receive text messages (SMS).
• Check the smartphone battery level and mobile operator signal.
• Check the date and time.
Advanced Features:
• Alarm clock with voice reminder.
• Music player.
• Weather forecast based on INPE.
• News.
• GPS functions ("where am I" and "auxiliary navigation" functions).
• Camera and photo gallery.
• Text file reader.
• Operating system applications access (no voice support).
Personal settings:
• Speech configurations, sounds and notifications (female or male voice, warnings, navigation, etc).
• Volume of speech and bell.
• Accessibility options (font size, number of buttons, user level, etc.).
• Facilities (wireless network, bluetooth, etc.).
*** ATTENTION:
AFTER INSTALL, THE CPqD FACILITA WILL BE THE STANDARD INTERFACE OF THE SMARTPHONE (LAUNCHER). To disable the application, search in the last page of the main menu the option “DESATIVAR O CPQD FACILITA” (represented by "X") and CONFIRM. After that, you will be asked to select Android start, select TOUCHWIZ, START TOUCHWIZ, START, LAUNCHER or similar term (depending on the manufacturer) and touch the "SEMPRE" button to restore the phone.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
• This app uses Accessibility services.
• Applies to Android versions 5 until 7.
HARDWARE RECOMMENDATION (minimum):
• Devices with a quad-core processor and 1 GB of RAM.
App Permissions
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows applications to discover and pair bluetooth devices.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows applications to change network connectivity state.
Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.
Allows applications to disable the keyguard if it is not secure.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
This constant was deprecated in API level 21. No longer enforced.
Allows an application to modify global audio settings.
Allows an application to see the number being dialed during an outgoing call with the option to redirect the call to a different number or abort the call altogether.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to read SMS messages.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an application to monitor incoming MMS messages.
Allows an application to receive SMS messages.
Allows an application to send SMS messages.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows an application to write the user's contacts data.
Allows an application to read the user's call log.
Allows an application to write (but not read] the user's call log data.
Allows an application to broadcast sticky intents.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read or write the system settings.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to record audio.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to change the Z-order of tasks.
Allows an app to create windows using the type TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY, shown on top of all other apps.
Allows modification of the telephony state - power on, mmi, etc.
Marker permission for applications that wish to access notification policy.
Allows a calling application which manages it own calls through the self-managed ConnectionService APIs.
