About this app

1. Free app-to-app calls. Free video calls. Call any mobile device or landline phone. Flexible phone conference call management: setup, add, remove, mute/unmute, and view participants.
   
2. Video conferencing: easily add participants; hide a participant's video only or audio/video; easily restore hidden participants; easily disconnect a participant from your screen; easily switch video thumbnail to main focus; etc.
   
3. Send confidentially-marked chat messages or pictures and delete them when you need to. Easily convert normal chat messages to confidential messages and vice versa via privatization and un-privatization.
   
4. Supports chat e-mail: Forwarding/Replying email messages sent to your AmakaConnect App email address as Chat messages. Also sends chat messages as email messages to anyone.
   
5. Easily use voice commands to dictate your chat message and automatically send chat messages, delete chat words or clear chat messages.
   
6. Social connection: easily identify, select, and initiate conversation/chat with other available AmakaConnect users in your current location.
   
7. Provides AmakaConnect iVerify Identification Tag which is a reliable mobile identification system that enables you to easily verify the identity of any AmakaConnect user.
   
8. Allows you to announce, search, and find events and occasions. AmakaConnect enables you to schedule/announce your events to selected contacts from your AmakaConnect or phone or all AmakaConnect users; and allows users to search and find events applicable to them and occurring within a specified distance from a given location, date, and time. AmakaConnect also sends automated reminders to your target audience about your event - per your specifications.
   
9. Allows you to easily search for nearby businesses or places. With AmakaConnect, you can search for nearby specific type of business within a given distance from your current or designated location. With one touch, you can see the place on the map or see the travel directions to the place.
   
10. Easily edit sent chat messages, reply to any message and maintain history of all changes and replies; or withdraw a recent message that was sent to the wrong person. Also, if you accidentally sent a message to the wrong person, you can withdraw the message within one minute of sending the message.
    
11. Easily protect your AmakaConnect App. If you lost the phone that contains your AmakaConnect App and you want to lock it up so that no one can use it.
    
12. Easily manage your Contacts' messages: archiving, restoring, searching, deleting, copying, and forwarding, and sharing messages.
    
13. Provides robust Contact management: individual or group (private or general) Contacts; one-way or two-way group chatting; blocking, deleting, adding, or removing Contacts.
    
14. Provides flexible Chat screen background image management: easily use your favorite image or select from AmakaConnect options to setup any Contact's background image.
    
15. Easily personalize your profile with photo image or video clip.
    
16. Easily review or recheck your chat messages before sending: provides option for you to easily recheck and edit your chat messages before sending.
    
17. Easily manage your AmakaConnect account: change password, retrieve password, delete account, etc.
    

New features

Added new feature to video conferencing

App Permissions

Allows an application to know what content is playing and control its playback.
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 applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to set the wallpaper.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows an application to record audio.
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 app to create windows using the type TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY, shown on top of all other apps.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows an application to send SMS messages.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to read SMS messages.
Allows an application to modify global audio settings.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows applications to disable the keyguard if it is not secure.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows an application to read or write the system settings.
Allows an application to modify the current configuration, such as locale.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows modification of the telephony state - power on, mmi, etc.
Allows an application to modify global audio settings.
Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.