Suggestion for a much needed app

I am a volunteer firefighter. I am dispatched to calls via a Motorola Monitor voice pager. Since approximately 84% of firefighters in the U.S. are volunteers, and the vast majority of them use the same system that my department does, an app that would work just like my pager would be REALLY handy. Not to mention it would be cost effective to my department. I believe that there would be a large demand for an app like this.
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Contact the manufacturers of the company/organisation that sends out the call despatch alerts and suggest it to them.
Or, find a developer on the AppStore that does something similar and suggest it to them.

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Turning off "Track my activity" in the MyPlate app, on the Theory (guess anyway) that it's gobbling up the accelerometer data, and thus preventing the Health app from grabbing that information: I did so and then took a quick walk around the building, and so far, still nothing shows up in the Health app. I'll keep it off for a while, and see if anything accumulates in the Health app, but it looks like the MyPlate app is seeing my activity.

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Suggestion for a needed Walkman app improvement

Dear Sirs,
Although I’ll sadly have to part from my Sony Z1 (for other issues reported on this forum and to Sony Xperia Care, namely the touchscreen issue), I would still like to leave a suggestion for the most underachieving app (imho) from a Sony Smartphone.
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