Text Cloud

See what the popular topic of conversations are with your friends with Text Cloud!Text Cloud will create a cloud of popular words that you and a friend have used via text message and put them into a photo. The text size indicates how often a word has been used relative to others!How does it work?Text Cloud parses your messages removing unnecessary white-space and characters and counts the occurrences of each word. It then creates an image and fills it starting with the most used words until no room remains on the image. The image is saved to your photo gallery under the folder "textcloud".What permissions are needed and why?Read contacts - In order to let you pick which contact to cloudify.Read SMS - In order to parse SMS messages (no MMS) with the selected contactAccess network state - To determine if you are connected to the internetWrite external storage - To save the cloud to your photo galleryInternet - To send word counts to the server and retrieve the processed image. Any data sent to the server is removed after the connection is closed.Planned features: Custom fonts Date range (to/from) Option to turn off SD card saving Custom picture sizes Choose text orientationKnown Bugs: At the moment, if you choose a contact that you have recently included in a large mass text it will pick the messages from that mass text rather than the individual conversation. Decreased image quality Slow connections may time out before processing is completeWhy does this application use server side processing? The biggest concern (and rightfully so) I've received is about why the image is processed server side. As noted earlier, any message context is completely removed and only the word counts are sent. This is because Text Cloud uses over a gigabyte of image processing libraries and that is just not viable to do on a phone.If you have any questions or concerns about privacy or how the processing is done please send me an email.This app is still in early stages and may experience periodic outages.