[THINK TANK] Desire Camera & Music on Stock - Nexus One Android Development

I really want a rooted stock ROM (CM, Enom, TheOfficial, etc.) but I love the camera & music apps from the Desire ROMs. I've been trying all day to get them working on CM, but have failed epically. Anyone wanna throw in some help on this?
What I've Tried (& Failed):
Copy the right libs from the Desire ROM to the stock one. Used the list of libs we needed to port the music/camera apps from the old Hero builds to the stock G1 ROMs.
Ideas:
Something with Smali/Baksmali.

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+1 For this, as the Camera on desire IS AMAZING! Seriously, much better then the original. Same with the music app, as it actually reads id3 tags correctly.

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Is there any way to get there widgets to because there a lot better then stock

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Geniusdog254 said:
I really want a rooted stock ROM (CM, Enom, TheOfficial, etc.) but I love the camera & music apps from the Desire ROMs. I've been trying all day to get them working on CM, but have failed epically. Anyone wanna throw in some help on this?
What I've Tried (& Failed):
Copy the right libs from the Desire ROM to the stock one. Used the list of libs we needed to port the music/camera apps from the old Hero builds to the stock G1 ROMs.
Ideas:
Something with Smali/Baksmali.
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I would ask Stericson to weigh in. He was the one that got the HTC music app from the Hero ported to 1.6. Maybe he can offer you some insight.

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ttieder said:
Is there any way to get there widgets to because there a lot better then stock
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that's gonna be really hard if not impossible...

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This request has been asked for already:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=638106&highlight=camera
I can't find the posts at the moment, but I believe there was discussion about this pulling the HTC Camera app out alone, but that it was so integrated into the core components that doing so would be a MAJOR undertaking (for not just pulling out all the necessary pieces, but also having to put patches in for those pieces on whatever ROM you do use).
I'm in the same boat, the Desire Camera is far superior to the stock camera and would LOVE so it as its' own app (or ported to CM5 ROM).

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If someone would compile ldd, then you could easily run it against the camera app to find all the library dependencies. Then lump all the libs into their own dir (so as to not overwrite stock libs), then launch the camera app from a shell script where you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/desire/libs and it should run. It may consume 100 megs, but it would run

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Its possible, but you need to use baksmali and smali to find out what the app needs to run....its possible...but not easy...

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/joins the seemingly cult following
+9000 for this idea.

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Tunewiki is the best music app in my oppinion, but I wouldn't mind the camera app.
+8000 from me

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I don't mind the stock camera, but I do prefer the HTC Music app. So I would love to see this.
On a down note, I recently read something over at MoDaCo that Paul had written about porting Desire to the N1. Most, if not all, of the issues he is having are caused by Sense calling upon many additions to the kernel, which is heavily modified and therefore very different from the vanilla kernels floating around.
He mentioned the camera app using certain things in or created by the Desires kernel, which is why I highly doubt we will be porting the apps any time soon.

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oh yes, i would LOVE the desire camera app!

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i had the same idea
i spent all the afternoon trying to install the HTCCamera.apk, plus the according libs, but it looks that something is lacking in the kernel or in the framework (i also injected all the htc relative jars in the /system/framework unsuccessfully)
I Hate sense, but it would really be nice to have the camera,the music, and also the contacts widgets.
Maybe we can try the reverse : use the modaco rom and patch it with cyanogen's kernel.
The only thing why i don't use modaco alpha rom is :
1 - i hate sense (really )
2 - i need a lot of memory and i miss the 2nd bank patch

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SubyWill said:
oh yes, i would LOVE the desire camera app!
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me 2.
the stock camera app is so stupid

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rotohammer said:
If someone would compile ldd, then you could easily run it against the camera app to find all the library dependencies. Then lump all the libs into their own dir (so as to not overwrite stock libs), then launch the camera app from a shell script where you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/desire/libs and it should run. It may consume 100 megs, but it would run
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Not quite how it works on Android - Java, man, Java

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What i ended up doing in this scenario is just running the MoDaCo custom rom, but disabling and deleting Rosie and its widgets, along with the other apps like footprints which i never use. It runs the stock Launcher2 for home, but i still have the Desire's contacts, camera, music etc.
From what i hear, you can still install some of the stock .apks to replace ones you dont like from desire (like stock Mms.apk rather than the one that ships in Rosie roms)
Works for my needs (or desires anyway... no pun intended.)
Give it a whirl by going into your apps list, selecting rosie, then clearing defaults. When you press home next it'll ask you if you wanna use home or Rosie, with an option to make it default. Could be close enough to what people are looking for, and in any event its far easier to mod Desire to be more stock than vice versa. Most of these are even available as options in the kitchen as well.
EDIT - you'll need to pull the launcher2.apk from an earlier build, as it appears it isnt included in alpha 17 onward...

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bri3d said:
Not quite how it works on Android - Java, man, Java
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that HTC dreams of JNI quite often. It would let them share more code with Sense for WM.

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I hope someone can make this work on the N1 soon

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xPatriicK said:
I hope someone can make this work on the N1 soon
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It does work (HTC MUSIC APP) on the N1, I got it from someone here at XDA...
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Who wants the zip file?

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Huh? What is that.