hi posting a question here about the APP locus (online/offline map viewer)
im using it to manage poi's navigating and browsing them daily as well as recording tracks etc, i liked the look of the augmented reality feature but can seem to get the poi icons to be displayed ive tried cutting down the number of poi's displayed in map and can confirm i have fixed gps when in AR and shows the camera and radar but not the overlay icons.
maybe someone would be willing to try the APP for me on an x10 to confirm it works, im running a custom firmware and think it could be related to that, both the locus app and AR addon are free on the andriod market, only the AR feature willl only work for 1min in free mode, but long enough to test its working, and maybe you could let me know what ROM your running, thanks in advance, Tom
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Hello all,
As maybe some know, Adobe's Flash player in Android has a feature. The object doesn't activate if it is not in focus (or maybe touched?). This seems to be a security or battery performance related improvement as Adobe puts it.. However, it is really annoying.. Because;
You can't listen to most of the radio stations, or playlists even, if you send them to background. I love to listen to some of my favorite music while reading the daily news.. As many other have pointed out in the following threads:
Thread ID: 854896, 672639, 543354, 489142
I am writing this question here, as this is an Android Flash player implementation issue and this behaviour is by design. There may be many ways to modify the Flash player, or modify the browser to make the Flash Player act as if it is in the foreground even if it is not..
So can anyone work on this? Or maybe we can submit some kind of CR to CyanogenMod issue list? Better yet, how can we submit this problem to Adobe's developers/designers?
Or maybe a hacker has already read this and has solved it already
Thanks a lot..
Maybe this works on other (Sense?) phones, but I know this worked on my 3.29 stock rooted Evo. In the browser you can hit menu > windows and then open a new window, and then close the new window. Now you will still be in the windows view, but are "hovering" above the window you have your Flash content in. Now you should be able to hit the home button and do other things.
I would suggest just using a real music player/radio app.....
deathsled said:
I would suggest just using a real music player/radio app.....
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x2... I think most, (if not all) standalone music/radio apps will run happily along in the background.
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x2... I think most, (if not all) standalone music/radio apps will run happily along in the background.
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True, but most (if not all) standalone music/radio apps won't play arbitrary flash content online.
I know somebody who likes to listen to a particular TV program, and typically networks only make these available via flash. I'm sure if he works at it he can extract the audio on a computer or find it on a torrent or something, but it would be nice if this were at least an option.
Of course, compared to a normal app I imagine it would suck down a lot more power.
I've found a way to have a Flash webpage running on the background without needing to hack Flash Player on ICS. I stumbled across an unadvertised "feature" of the Dual Screen Browser app by Curry Cat v2.1.
All you have to do is launch the Dual Screen browser, do a google search for the flash web page you want, and once the audio starts playing just hit the OS Home button and the audio keeps playing in the background. It blew my mind.
The device I got this working on is a stock ASUS Transformer TF101 w/ ICS (v4.0.3)
Dual Screen Browser has a bunch of FC and seems to be heavily reliant on the stock browser some how. If you get FC when trying to launch it try the following:
Open stock Browser, press OS Home button, then relaunch Dual Screen Browser
Turn internet connection off, then relaunch Dual Screen Browser
Dual Screen Browser appears to be better optimized for flash/html5 video playback in portrait mode. I had two flash videos playing at the same time on each screen without much of a performance hit.
When in landscape mode pick the left most screen. It plays movies better without cutting off part of it.
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I've found a way to have a Flash webpage running on the background without needing to hack Flash Player on ICS. I stumbled across an unadvertised "feature" of the Dual Screen Browser app by Curry Cat v2.1.
All you have to do is launch the Dual Screen browser, do a google search for the flash web page you want, and once the audio starts playing just hit the OS Home button and the audio keeps playing in the background. It blew my mind.
The device I got this working on is a stock ASUS Transformer TF101 w/ ICS (v4.0.3)
Dual Screen Browser has a bunch of FC and seems to be heavily reliant on the stock browser some how. If you get FC when trying to launch it try the following:
Open stock Browser, press OS Home button, then relaunch Dual Screen Browser
Turn internet connection off, then relaunch Dual Screen Browser
Dual Screen Browser appears to be better optimized for flash/html5 video playback in portrait mode. I had two flash videos playing at the same time on each screen without much of a performance hit.
When in landscape mode pick the left most screen. It plays movies better without cutting off part of it.
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Wow, I even forgot that I asked this question. But your solution seems very promising. Well, I'd still like to see HTML5 work in the background to (for the obvious reason that I want to play a youtube playlist while screen off ) Well if I'd have to install a separate app, I think there are other players that does this already.
Thanks anyways.. (Sorry for the late response)
I am using "nextvid" to play youtube videos on the backgroud, no need for hacking it does it by default( free app)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=Nextvid.mobile.player&hl=pt_PT
Can anyone get SiriusXm, TuneIn radio to work when using MIUI beta.
I found some old posts via google from droidforums.net where user tp4bama suggested replacing the hosts file in system/etc but the link to this host file is down.
I have tried replacing the hosts file with a rom that siriusxm works with(eclipse/stock 2.3.4) to no avail.
I have also tried uninstalling/reinstalling.
Thanks,
joshahouck
As of 4-30-12 Siriusxm has updated their android app to version 2.0.
Lucky for us siriusxm internet radio subscribers and miui rom runners we now have a semi-working app.
What I have found so far:
The Good:
To start they have revamped the app quite a bit, to include pause rewind and fast forward. Something android users should have had long ago, none-the-less a great feature.
You can also see information about the artist that's playing, as well as schedule to tune in to your fav show during the week.
Sound quality seems better to me.
Faster streaming / load times
Much better than previous version (1.6.2)
The Bad:
I found trying to use the bottom navigation bar that has Categories, Channels, Favorites, Shows, Settings was buggy with Miui. Categories, and Channels when clicked cause FC's I could not get around.
In order to tune into a channel I wanted to listen to I had to:
Use the "Show" nav button
Sort shows by channel
Find the Station I wanted to listen to
Thumb through the shows untill you find one that says "Now Playing" rather than "Upcoming"
Click it and then you are listening to your station.
I would recommend long pressing the Channel's Icon at the top of screen to save as a Favorite.
Since the Favorite nav icon at the bottom works, you should be able to quickly access any channel you add using this method.
I hope this helps someone, I am happy to have siriusxm and Miui working together!
Houck
Hi,
I have been a silent reader/observer of xda forums for a long time now and I thank everyone of the awesome developers out there for giving such good ROMs.
I've been meaning to ask this question for a long time but I was delaying it hoping I can get an answer for it myself. But today after spending close to 5 hrs on this with no answer I decided to ask it here.
I'm a music fan and I'd like to listen to it on my phone as well. I have an HTC One XL with the latest Viper ROM.
I have tried the following options.
1. Downloaded numerous apps (PVStar, NextVid and the likes). Some worked but not to my satisfaction. They're either very laggy or buggy or have unattractive UI to use.
2. Visited sites like youtify.com and tried on various browsers. (Chrome, firefox, UC, Dolphin, Opera etc.) hoping it won't stop playing audio when switched to another app or screen locked. On chrome and all the others it just stops playing audio when you switch to another app. On firefox it works but when screen is locked, audio becomes choppy (app's priority gets lower I think slowly). I tried to search for apps which can keep an app's priority higher but in no vain.
3. I also tried to find alternatives to Youtube like grooveshark app but it just keeps crashing whenever other apps are launched. I also tried Radio apps like TuneIn radio or pandora but you can't search for specific songs there.
P.S: Also some YouTube videos are specifically blocked by Google itself to not stream it to other apps/sites I think. How can we avoid this?
So, basically my problem is I need to be able to search and stream Youtube videos (Preferably have my own saved playlists) on my android phone while the screen is locked or in background while accessing other apps. (I know google is trying to bring 'play in background' feature to YouTube app itself but we can't create playlists there if I'm not wrong). Please suggest me a solution.
Thanks.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/play-youtube-videos-background-even-screen/
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2213945
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http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/play-youtube-videos-background-even-screen/
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2213945
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Thanks for a lot for the links. Tried both but the first one (Viral) is not so stable. It crashes often and a pain to use. However the second option (Modded youtube APK) seems to be the best option. I can have my own playlists saved in my youtube account and play them using this modded youtube app. The music will continue to play even when screen is locked but the app must be in the foreground. The moment you switch to another app or press home button or even pressing "back" within youtube, it stops.
It's a solution I can live with for now, but I would love to have something which can run even when in background. Suggestions welcome.
Thanks.
[BUMP] Any youtube modded APK?
Trying to bump up this as I wasn't able to find a modded youtube APK which can continue to run in background (i.e. even after pressing home button and accessing other apps). Right now the modded APK only allows screen to be locked but the app should remain in foreground.
And the youtube APK also doesn't play all files in playlist. It plays just one file that we select and stops after that even though there are other items in the playlist.
Could use a bit of help, i'm looking for some kind of app that scrolls the trackname/artist/etc of what google play is currently playing accross the statusbar, that way i can easily see what track i'm playing while having waze running on the HU screen.
Anyone know is there is suck an app? been googleing for a while without much success.
This could easily be moved to some other section, but since i'm in the frame of mind regarding the functionality when driving i'll give it a shot in this section
Hi everyone,
here is my app for my music site zune music
it uses youtube API for the videos and audio and uses soundcloud api to pull artist info and track names
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zunemusic
please download
Thank,
John
This is app is clean as hell!!!
Good looking out best of luck!
Hey thanks would appreciate some reviews on Google play and any features anyone wanting to be added
Thanks
John
Are you able to add a lockscreen or status bar notification icon?
Also is it possible to have an option to have the nav bars not automatically hide?
Thanks
Hi
Thanks for the feedback I'm currently looking into the navy bar as I agree it's a bit annoying sometimes and the lock screen notification I'm busy looking into this
Will keep you posted
App looks great however I would love to be able to sort by music genre. Main page shows songs / music types for example which I never listen to.
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I expect Microsoft to file some sort of lawsuit over using their Zune name. But nice app!
You know that Zune is the name of Microsoft's failed MP3 player and failed music service, right?
I got one ad on launch, however the app leaves me hanging on login screen and other pages with no way to go back and I must exit the app and open again. Needs attention to the back button or a consistent nav bar. Nice job John...!
Yeah I can't believe you didn't realise this name was already taken by Microsoft. Pretty poor show if you ask me.
Thanks for the feedback a new version is out now on a faster server and I am starting the process of rebranding the app is now called ZStream and we currently addressing more issues and we have removed add until we find another way to present them
Thanks
Great app, are you able to add chromecast? For streaming to soundbar