Hi!
I've been looking for an app like Airfoil (Mac/Windows program) for Android. What it does is "hijack" your audio source (program), and sends it via Airplay to compatible Airplay units.
Where the Airplay or DLNA is not a problem, there exists streaming apps in the market. What i wonder is if the hijack of other sources is possible in Android? Assuming it would require root.
Why i want this? Stream Spotify or Google music from my phone/tablet to reciever in living room without any messy servers and such.
- Thanks for any replies, Mixy
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As the title says, i wondered if Android allows you to stream audio from the device to the network? Specifically for Airfoil, is it possible to play music from spotify (etc.) from the phone, on my other airfoil units?
I contacted the developer, and he was unsure wether this was possible with the current APIs or not, i would sure be willing to pay for such a program at least
Such a program exist for iOS already: http://itunes.apple.com/app/reemote-for-airfoil/id396381723?mt=8
Thanks!
Will this thread be of any help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1104692
That seems to be the opposite way of what i am interested in. Have found that my DoubleTwist media player supports streaming to my Mac Mini running XBMC, so i dont see why this wouldnt work for Spotify/wimp instead.
An app that "hijacks" the audio source, and sends it via WiFi to Airplay/Airfoil/DLNA supported devices would be what i am looking for i guess.
Mixy said:
An app that "hijacks" the audio source, and sends it via WiFi to Airplay/Airfoil/DLNA supported devices would be what i am looking for i guess.
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This is something i really want too, what Apple has done with their Airplay is something that would be awesome to have in our Android devices.
agreed, need to audio-hijack all system sound to send to airplay. want to be able to sent pandora, etc controlled from my phone to an airplay receiver.
There is some development going on towards this. I use Shairport on an old phone to act as an Airport express :
http://code.google.com/p/vavi-apps-shairport/
The Airports keys were 'Cracked ' so there will be something eventually.
http://m.engadget.com/default/artic...-unofficial-airp/&category=classic&postPage=1
Regards
I bought winamp for android.
It will be nice if this development can be as you mention.
Hope I dont have to buy doubleTwist since I like Winamp.
Now, before I get flamed, I know that there are plenty of bluetooth remote control apps for controlling your PC from your Android device or controlling your Android device from your PC etc. What I was wondering was, is there an app that allows your to control one Android device from another Android device? Would that be useful, especially with all the tablet devices that are coming out now? How cool would it be to connect your phone to your tablet via bluetooth for the purposes of sending and receiving texts, or making and receiving phone calls etc? Is there any development on such an app?
Comments? Thoughts?
Nothing? Nada?
I don't have an answer for you but I've had the same thought as you that this would be a great app.
I've released two data transfer apps that are used to send data between Android devices, (BlueMuze and Listables if you're interested).
The reason I mention this though, is because I think that for specific tasks like sending music or a photo, or as you suggest, making a phone call, the tech is there. But full-on remote control of another device is a bit more difficult. I'd imagine it would require root and possibly some very clever hacking of the Surface Fliger and Event stream.
That's not to say it's impossible, but it would be a really decent technical challenge. There certainly is a permission related to injecting events into the event stream, that could be a good place to start (if anyone wants to try this).
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html#INJECT_EVENTS
hope that helps
Another quick thought, it's also entirely possible someone will port a VNC server to android someday. There are already VNC clients available...
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Another quick thought, it's also entirely possible someone will port a VNC server to android someday. There are already VNC clients available...
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That would certainly be cool! However, the functionality you mentioned in your previous post is something I think would be more functionally useful. Like, say your phone rings, but you answer can answer the call on your tablet as if the phone saw the tablet as a hands-free device, or just answer on the phone (whichever you prefer). Or you dial on your tablet, and then it engages the phone to place the call. Or SMS strings automatically synchronize, and you could answer/respond on either device and they mirror each other in their own respective SMS clients.
That sort of thing I think would be beastly! Y'know, something that gives your tablet and your phone more of a synergistic relationship to each other. Like, rather than two separate devices that fill specific functions, it'd be more like two devices complementing each other and working together to cover all your bases seamlessly.
I just wish I had the knowledge and development-fu to do it myself...
I have also been looking for this kind of thing - primarily so I could run videos from my tablet to my TV, and then use my Android HD2 to control the playback from the comfort of my sofa.
What would be ideal for me would be someone knocking up a bluetooth (or Wifi) solution which sends control commands to something like VPlayer, QQPlayer, MoboPlayer, RockPlayer whatever
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I have also been looking for this kind of thing - primarily so I could run videos from my tablet to my TV, and then use my Android HD2 to control the playback from the comfort of my sofa.
What would be ideal for me would be someone knocking up a bluetooth (or Wifi) solution which sends control commands to something like VPlayer, QQPlayer, MoboPlayer, RockPlayer whatever
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I pretty much already to that with my SGS2 by using a bluetooth mouse. I know it's not the same as pushing a specific button and having a specific action happening on the other device, but the effect is similar enough.
Bump! Trying get some visibility on potential devs for this idea.
any news for android-android remote access?
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Ive also been looking for a app to control my xoom tablet from my HTC phone,there are a couple of simple apps on the market such as "tablet remote" but im looking for one that has more media (music/film) capabilities,i guess the app would involve installing it one both devices then syncing via bluetooth
then you could control the playlist of music,stop pause fw rw any film,the ability to actually stream the music from your phone to table would be awesome !
in my personal situation my tablet is docked with speakers attached,i like to be able to access its music playlist then control that play list with my phone,and maybe even add extra tracks from my phone to the tablets playlist
is there already an app out there that will allow me to do this via bluetooth or wifi ?
has been years since this thread exist, any news?
The title might be misleading, but it's the best description I have for this. My goal is to make an app that streams audio from Android via Airplay to other units on the network. I know that similar appear exist, but they only stream media they can read. Making streaming from spotify or Google Music impossible as they play encrypted files.
I am assuming that my application would require root to work, and that there does not exist an easy-API from Android to do this. My question is this:
Will this application be device Specific? Does the code work on Android library's, or ie. Samsung Libs?
Sorry for this being noobishly written, but I hope you get my point. I'm no coder yet so my assumptions might be off, I am on the other hand very willing to learn
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Mixy said:
The title might be misleading, but it's the best description I have for this. My goal is to make an app that streams audio from Android via Airplay to other units on the network. I know that similar appear exist, but they only stream media they can read. Making streaming from spotify or Google Music impossible as they play encrypted files.
I am assuming that my application would require root to work, and that there does not exist an easy-API from Android to do this. My question is this:
Will this application be device Specific? Does the code work on Android library's, or ie. Samsung Libs?
Sorry for this being noobishly written, but I hope you get my point. I'm no coder yet so my assumptions might be off, I am on the other hand very willing to learn
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Would be great if you can find something for this.......
Greetings,
I've recently purchased a new Panasonic Blu-Ray player, and one of the features advertised the player as having the ability to use the (official Panasonic) Android app "panasonic blu-ray remote 2012" as a remote control.
Here's the deal - I've got ICS devices and this app is currently limited to Android OS 2.x! So while I've found links to the app, the Play store gives me the "this app location is not compatible..." banner. As such, I've only been able to install the app on my daughters Android MP3 player. Attempts to backup & transfer, but Astro won't back it up to an APK.
Is there an another way to obtain the apk to see if I can try it on my Galaxy Nexus and Asus Transformer?
Thanks in advance
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Hi all,
I've been playing with the airplay apps over the last week or so but am hitting some problems.
I have a couple of old android phones setup around my house which have speakers connected to them. I run Bubbleupnp on each of those devices which then effectively sets them up as DLNA libraries and renderers. I have two other devices setup - an android tablet and a QNAP NAS. My QNAP NAS supports DLNA and this is where my music library is stored. The android tablet is used as a controller, again running Bubbleupnp, where I can choose the NAS as the library and either of the android devices as speakers. This works great.
One problem is that with Bubbleupnp, it is only possible to select one renderer which means it is not possible to stream to multiple speakers at the same time. E.g. I want to stream to my kitchen and my living room at the same time with the music completely in sync. Another problem is that when using Bubbleupnp, music sent to the renderer must be from a library and cannot be live streaming on the controller device (E.g. Spotify, Youtube etc.).
I then found AirAudio which actually fixed both of the issue (Sort of). Firstly, when running AirAudio on a rooted device, you can push any sounds from the controller device to any of the DLNA renderers (E.g. Spotify). Secondly, it is possible to stream to multiple DLNA renderers at the same time (Obviously, Bubbleupnp still needs to be running on these devices to make them DLNA devices). The only problem here is that when sending to multiple renderers at the same time, they are not in sync. The is due to the actual streaming being performed on the individual devices and therefore they all perform differently.
I emailed the AirAudio development team and they were extremely helpful in explaining the details of this to me and even recommended some other apps to try which might help. The apps which they recommended were Android HiFi and AirBubble where it is possible to set different delays for the different renderers. I am yet to actually try this as I imagine that the delay is not exactly the same each time I try and play music and therefore the delay will need to be altered regularly (Bit of pain).
This whole problem is a limitation of DLNA - you cannot synchronise multiple devices. Apparently you can synchronise multiple AirPlay devices?
So, after all of that, my question is, 'Is it possible to turn an Android device into a AirPlay device?' The developers at AirAudio seemed to think that audio synchronisation of AirPlay receivers for Android is not supported, if this is true, does anyone know why? Seems mad that something as powerful as an Android phone can't be an AirPlay device.
Thanks in advance,
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Dan
Sorry to bump this but just hoping that someone reads this who can help.
Dan
Last try...
Anyone got any ideas here?
Effectively I want Boombotix Sync for Android (This is for iphone only). There's also Speakerfy but it's limited to music library on the host and it's ui is horrible.
can't believe there's still no solution to this. .
I can't believe that no one out there isn't trying to do the same as me!
I still can't find a suitable solution. Please please help.