Hey guys! I'm in the works of creating an application similar to the iTunes structure of syncing / managing devices but for android devices. The application I am working on, Andraudio, uses ADB for all data transport to allow syncing under all circumstances (Charge only mod, MTP, Photo Transpher, ETC), automatic device detection and will allow you to manage backups, storage and data on your device with relatively no effort. The application will be able to detect what codecs your device supports and convert media to supported codecs as well as free up space on your device by browsing for files that are not needed in temporary/cache directories. The real kicker with this application is that similar to iTunes it will be able to connect to (google only for now) device update servers and offer OTA updates and automate the process of upgrading/downgrading/restoring devices that are unbootable. If there is interest in an android suite of this type, let me know! If you want to help, all help will be taken! Currently I am working on the wrapper for the transport protocol, media management and a full backup system to allow you to safely restore data cross rom as long as the android version is the same.
I'd be interested in something like this for sure. As it is mtp on Windows does a crappy job and sometimes fails to copy files to or from the device. Right now I'm using an app that syncs folders over WiFi, but I'd love one that I can just plug in the USB cable and it'll backup all my music, pics, and other selected folders automatically.
Sounds interesting.
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with .
This would be super cool, I've been using iTunes for years now and I really like it for the most part. Seeing something like this, but for Android/Pixel would be a real treat.
Thanks for sharing, I'd be interested as well!
Good luck.
Hey guys! Im glad there is interest in my project, to get things going quickly the software is being started in visual basic, a program language that makes it easy to release software quickly, after there is a stable build with a majority of features I will move the project to c++. My goal with this software is to keep in the spirit of android and maintain it open-source, and free of any non-open source binaries. All releases will be released with binary versions and a copy of the source so you can compile and tweak to your liking, just like with your favorite mobile OS. If anyone is interested in helping with the beginning stage development I chose a language easy for anyone to help with, and completely free to produce. Email me at 551280jjj @ gmail, or send me a pm here if you want to contribute to the development of the app. Even if you can't program I could use some help with designing assets, concepts for features, or just to put minds together to work on bugs. The software will be updated weekly, hopefully each new release will increase stability and add features. Initial release will have basic support for transport, conversion, and i'm working on integration for automatic ID3 tagging.
EDIT: I do not own a mac, but would love assisting someone in creating a port for OSX
I love this idea. I used an ipod for my music up until about 3 years ago simply just because I loved that I could manage my music library on my computer and then have it automatically sync everything when I plugged in the iPod.
I'm really looking forward to seeing this come to life! Also, I think id3 tag editing would be an awesome feature. As not having correct tags really bothers me.
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Hey everyone, my name is Ian. I'm kind of new here, at least in a participatory role as wiki master of the Photon 4g's Sunfire dev team/collaboration. I have some talent in the world of web coding, but I'm useless at real programming.
I also have a rather nasty addiction to the world of flight simming, mostly as stand in for real flight time that I'm trying to orchestrate as I work towards a private pilot's license. Anyways, my program I use for flight simulation is X-plane and lacks in 3rd party applications that it can interface with, especially on the Android side. I would like to help to put together an Android app that can work with the sim and control basic functions. My current goal is to control radio systems and autopilot functions. To interface with the sim, I plan to use the Simulator Control System which is based on the CAN Aerospace protocol. This is cross sim application, so whatever works with X-plane will also work with Microsoft flight sim. I've been looking at the website, http://cross-simulator.com/, and I think that this seems like a fairly easy task. All the functions and commands are well documented and supported (there is even an example android code), I just don't know how to start. If anyone in this great community has some advice, I'd love to hear it because I really have no clue.
Thanks, and happy dev'ing
I would just download the example, import it in Eclipse and run it on the Android emulator (assuming you have downloaded and installed the Android SDK). Later, you can tweak the example code as you become more comfortable.
Hi,
I am a student in computer programming and I am looking to self-learn advanced android development by making an android app for my personal use. I was thinking about making an application that would require a Client/Server model that would let me browse/playback my music that sits on my PC from my android device. Something similar to the Audiogalaxy application where I would stream the data from my PC to my device.
Knowing that I know how to make an Android app, I would like to know what would be the best technology to use. I would like to be able to access my library from Internet or via Wifi. I have done some search and found out that using Zend Framework as the server and using JSON-RPC as the client could be one of the way to go, but I haven't found all the informations that would convince me to go with that idea.
I would like to know your opinion/feedback on the technology or where I should start looking to make this happen.
Thanks!
have a good day!
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Hello!
I am in the R&D Phase of trying to build/port the Native Android SiriusXM App to Windows Phone. At best, I'd like to end up with a fully ported SiriusXM Android App. At worse, I'd like to get the source for an app like SatRadPlayer or SXMBuddy and update it to work with the new server. As a start, I am attaching the fully decompiled Android App.
My biggest challenge is that I haven't really developed a native WP App nor have I ever developed anything for Android...I do have some Java experience, though!
Help/Guidance/Feedback is greatly appreciated!
If anyone else wants to try giving this a shot as well, they are more than welcome to. My only request is that their App be free/donation ware so we can help build the platform.
If the app is originally in Java (not C/C++, and no, I haven't checked yet) you'll probably want to go with C# for your code; it's very similar to Java and the framework is largely self-documenting so it's easy to learn (there's also excellent docs on MSDN, of course). If part of the original app is unmanaged code, it's probably easier to just import that into a Windows Phone Component C++ project in Visual Studio and then patch it up to use Win32/WinRT instead of POSIX/Android.
Good idea. everything was written in Java. sounds like this will be quite a bit of work for one person. The app is developed and maintained by a company called QuickPlay in Canada. The audio streams are transferred over in DRMed "Chunks" that the app decodes. I don't even know if it is possible to decode them (I hope so).
At this point I am thinking it will be easier to manipulate the streams from the desktop app as the call generate xml and the audio is streamed in AAC. I guess the next question is can Windows Phone 8 handle AAC streams?
It supports AAC in general, so yes, I imagine so.
If the source code to the DRM decoder is available or easily decompiled, breaking/re-implementing it should be easy.
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It supports AAC in general, so yes, I imagine so.
If the source code to the DRM decoder is available or easily decompiled, breaking/re-implementing it should be easy.
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I took a different approach, and now have a working proof-of-concept using the legacy WMA streams. One of the things I am struggling with is how to set up a timer to periodically send a response packet back to the server. the standard "background thread" won't cut it because it has to be more than around 30 mins. I tried to use a timer in the backgroundaudio agent, but that was throwing a whole bunch of "illegal cross-thread" calls on instantiation. I can use the timer successfully in the main app though. This only works if the app is active and the screen isn't locked.
Hi, did you manage to decode the chk streams? I would be interested in knowing how you did it.
I never did. I ended up creating a mysqueezebox.com account, installing the "Siriusxm" app there and used that to gain access to the legacy streams. It would be really nice if someone could write a nice squeezebox client for Windows phone as everything is open-source and written in LUA.
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I never did. I ended up creating a mysqueezebox.com account, installing the "Siriusxm" app there and used that to gain access to the legacy streams. It would be really nice if someone could write a nice squeezebox client for Windows phone as everything is open-source and written in LUA.
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well it's done
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@clinton05 cool! thanks for the heads-up! how did you decide to connect to the back-end? I am just curious, and totally understand if you can't/won't share.
Hi folks,
I have had this idea in my mind for a couple of years now and would like to get on with it and stop dreaming about it and just jump in and do it already!
My experience during the past 20 years has been working as a programmer on MSSQL and VB and VB.net with good working knowledge of C, HTML5, Javascript, VB, VC, Access, MSSQL, MySQL, PHP, CSS, some Java, etc...
I don't mind learning new skills and actually looking forward to getting started, but I need to know that I am not barking up the wrong tree.
I intend to make this an open source project and not as a commercial product.
My dream is to make my phone, my voice-driven computer. Where the phone might not have enough resources, I need to use my main computer as top tier and act as server.
I know ubuntu touch might be a contender but it lacks many drivers for GPS, Propriety drivers, etc...
Let me tell you about my idea first as a high level plan due to my ignorance of the details of this implementation.
I want to make my phone (Nexus 4) be able to listen to my commands via a Bluetooth headset (Through a speech recognition engine), and tell me in in natural speech, things that I need to know or care about. For example: "You have a new email from David. Do you want me to read it or display it?" Sort of like what is now a movie called "Her" without the science fiction and the lovey dovey story part .
I want to write an internet agent that would search the net (from a list of sites) for what I am interested (through an AI program like freehal.net), and keep them for display in the order of relevance when I query it.
I also need to take over the telephony hardware when needed. For example: A call comes in, I want to be able to look-up their number in my database of contacts, if an entry is found, to tell me "Sam is calling. Do you want to answer it?"
I also want to keep a black list table where I know they are trying to sell me something and answer the phone (without me pushing any buttons) and tell them that I am not interested in answering their calls and that they are on my black list. Then hangup. Without sending them to voice mail.
I tried asking the android community on Google 2 years ago to ask why the SDK doesn't provide telephony API front end to answer the call without user interaction, but got no replies.
I've installed ubuntu on my laptop to learn Linux and got it working properly after a couple of days and have downloaded and installed all the programs and sdks I think I'd need. There are a lot of interesting projects in AI and user agents going on and I like to participate in them once I am up to par with the linux environment.
Can anyone give me some guidance, pointers or what to look for. If there are any project in development that I could join, would be much appreciated.
I tried to explain my interest as best as I could. If you need more info, please let me know.
Thanks for all your help guys.
Hello.
I am here seeking for help and advice on how to approach the development of a security framework (via APP or via hacked Android ROM to be used by kids, that could be monitored by adults (parents or legal tutors).
The idea would be to develop a (white hat) hacked ROM, that would allow the kids to communicate with their friends, but also would allow their parents to supervise/monitor in real time what their children are doing, who are they communicating with and that way protect their children. The thing is not to spy on our kids, but to be able to check regularly if there is anything wrong going on with our kids (mobbing, insults or harassment). Kids aged (10-14) could be influenced by other kids, adults, or adults simulating being kids, and on some occasions they can be tricked to do things without their parents consent/knowledge that can lead to a tricky situation.
When I was a kid, we had the telephone (wired telephone, of course) on the middle of the hallway, so all our conversations were basically family-public. The truth is that there are not many secret things a 10yo kid could/should talk about, but nowadays, it could be a little bit worrying to lend a smartphone to a kid. I think it's just as letting a kid drive a car; he can do it right, or not be able to evaluate the whole consequences of driving a car.
Talking to other parents around me, they all found very interesting the idea of having a telephone that one could lend to their son, having the kid available all the time, and with the peace of mind that you could know what's going on. Of course the kid should be aware of this, and that the telephone comms are being supervised. I think it's no big deal. "Kid, it's very simple. The telephone is mine, and if you want to use it you have to use it under my terms".
Probably, all of us working for a company, have also our communications supervised, cannot make personal phonecalls with the company's telephones, probably cannot navigate to webs looking for personal content, and we asume those rules (because neither the company's phones nor the computers are ours but our company's). It's basically the same, switching the company-employee role to a father-son one.
So, let's get to the point (technically). I am a tech-geek, linux pro-user, have compiled a few ROMs just for personal use, but don't feel capable enough of starting a project of these magnitude alone. If there is anyone willing to help, opine, or whatever, will be very welcome.
First of all, APP or ROM? I basically think that the ROM is the way to go, but I'm asking just in case someone can convince me on the contrary. I will make a poll on this question.
APP An APP could be easily downloaded and installed but would require a rooted phone, and I don't see it clearly if an APP could resolve all the needed issues (access to communications for example) and could be fairly easily uninstalled too.
ROM On the other hand, a ROM would be trickier to uninstall (basically flashing another ROM) but wouldn't be as easy to install as an APP (though the installer model of cyanogenmod could be kind of a solution). There could be an universal (if possible) independent flashable module, over whatever android ROM, or an entire ROM solution.
Features that I want to develop in this ROM (by the way, I call it 'Vigilante ROM'):
Suitable for as many devices as possible
Web interface for parents available to see device-related information
Some hack-proof measures to avoid kids bypassing the ROM's security
Alerts triggered on some events (offensive words, whatever)
Position of the mobile -just in case-
Suitable for as many devices as possible
The first thing I though was what platform should be used for this ROM. To select Android over others (iOS, Blackberry, W7) was a no-brainer. Now, the question is should we use pure Android or make a CyanogenMod fork?
In my opinion, even though every phone maker has to supply their ROM sources publicly, they usually introduce so many modifications (HTC Sense, Samsung Touchwizz and so on) that it looks more difficult to develop a common security framework over each manufacturer's version of Android, rather than using a more standardized one like CyanogenMod.
CyanogenMod already works with a wide number of devices (and a wider one if you count the unofficial supported devices), I think CyanogenMod should be the base of this ROM. If all the 'things' needed could be flash on top of any Android device, would be even better, but technically I need help with this one.
I understand that basically there should be an internal proxy setup, so that all the communications go through this internal proxy, and based on the kind of communication, we could log whatever we need. For example:
Visited URLs
Whatsapp or other messaging apps should be decrypted
Incoming/Outgoing calls/SMS
Social network activity
I know the Whatsapp protocol because I'm familiar with a project called WhatAPI. The key point to be able to intercept whatsapp messaging is a key generated and exchanged during the app install (although there are ways to later ask the Whatsapp server to renegotiate this keyword) and that's used later to encrypt all the messages between the phone and the whatsapp server.
Web interface for parents available to see device-related information
Behind every kid with a smartphone there should be a responsible adult supervising the kid -even if it's remotely-. In my idea, logs of messaging activity, incoming/outgoing calls/SMS and even the position should be available to the supervisor through a web interface.
Some hack-proof measures to avoid kids bypassing the ROM's security
That's an easy one. CRC checks on some keyfiles would guarantee that the device is not being 'counter-hacked'. Some kids are also very techie, and we should make some defences against kids trying to hack (counter-hack?) the phone.
Alerts triggered on some events (offensive words, whatever)
It could be interesting if somehow the supervisor could receive a notification whenever the kid sends/receives and offensive word, or tries to enter some special tagged website.