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Rockbox Development => New Ports => Topic started by: greatjack on January 28, 2017, 11:59:02 PM

Title: Fully Functioning New Android Port
Post by: greatjack on January 28, 2017, 11:59:02 PM: Hello,

I have scoured these forums and I have come to the conclusion that the only way for Rockbox to have a plausible future would be for us to develop a new Rockbox android app that uses a java based android user interface, while relying on Rockbox for all the music, and playback functionality through the use of a native library. I am a Java developer that is willing to work on the Java UI front, however I have very little experience with c/c++ and therefore would require some other developers from these spectrums to help get the native library up and running, since Rockboxes code is overall very well designed and in a relative sense portable, I can't imagine that it would be such a huge deal to get the native library going, and from there I can pick up on the UI aspect from a java perspective.

Anyone who's willing to work on this I welcome you to respond to this post

Sincerely,
Jack
Title: Re: Fully Functioning New Android Port
Post by: Kevorex on February 12, 2018, 07:28:44 PM: Rockbox app with ART compatibility was out there a long time ago, but it is developed by a user in Rockbox Chinese community. The download process required a good Chinese reading ability, so it is almost impossible for a non-Chinese person to find it out. I only distributed it by extracted it, set the default language to English, did some translating jobs on the file name, made a instruction file then recompressed it. The app and additional files belong to the author "迈戈" from Rockbox Chinese community.
Original post in Rockbox Chinese community:
https://forum.open-embedded.org/rockbox/t/20160823-mgamp6-8-7-0/746/3 (https://forum.open-embedded.org/rockbox/t/20160823-mgamp6-8-7-0/746/3)
Link to the zip file I distributed:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MUfYeDqTsksLT_mRyyZbz6NHmkScUgEM/view?usp=sharing (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MUfYeDqTsksLT_mRyyZbz6NHmkScUgEM/view?usp=sharing)

If you encounter any problem, please use Google Translate to view the original post in Rockbox Chinese community. Oh... and don't thank me! (^o^)
Title: Re: Fully Functioning New Android Port
Post by: ljones on April 27, 2018, 07:27:18 PM: I gave that version a try! But unfortunatly as best I could find (I don't understand chinese at all!) the last version dates from 2016 as far as I can tell. And it appears to be very buggy -- touching the phone screen to select something for example ends up confusing it after only a short amount of time causing it to jump between two states (eg two different menu options).

ljones
Title: Re: Fully Functioning New Android Port
Post by: InGearX on February 04, 2019, 04:58:27 AM: same here that version was very buggy

would be amazing to have an Android version ..
Title: Re: Fully Functioning New Android Port
Post by: Venty on February 15, 2019, 06:48:27 AM: An Android port would especially be interesting for Android based players such as the FIIO X5 3rd Gen and the FIIO X7 2nd Gen.