Rockbox Development > New Ports
Rockbox as an Application (Android, WebOS etc.)
gbl08ma:
--- Quote from: MajiKool Dragonâ„¢ on December 24, 2010, 12:41:56 PM ---Sorry to jump in out of nowhere, but I'm very interested in having Rockbox on my iPhone. But from what I've been reading in this thread it seems to me that most of the work thats taking place is for the Android port. That said, how would I go about making whats done so far run on my iPhone? Or is this not possible?
--- End quote ---
You would need to port everything I think. And by "porting" I mean rewriting most of the things, because the APIs for applications of iOS are different from those for Android.
Plus, you would have to jailbreak your iPhone - something you might have done already if you're posting that here.
You can also install Android on your iPhone (works to some extent) and then install Rockbox on it (joking) :D
kugel.:
--- Quote from: gbl08ma on December 24, 2010, 02:04:20 PM ---Plus, you would have to jailbreak your iPhone - something you might have done already if you're posting that here.
--- End quote ---
Why would porting Rockbox as an app require jailbreaking?
Ezraghast:
I'm having difficulty with the compilation instructions. Is there any chance a newer build can be posted to the wiki??
emkman:
--- Quote from: kugel. on December 31, 2010, 05:15:54 AM ---
--- Quote from: gbl08ma on December 24, 2010, 02:04:20 PM ---Plus, you would have to jailbreak your iPhone - something you might have done already if you're posting that here.
--- End quote ---
Why would porting Rockbox as an app require jailbreaking?
--- End quote ---
Apple will not approve apps for the App Store that replicate or replace "internal" or included functionality such as the music player. Messing with the iTunes ecosystem is a no-no. They want all music synced using iTunes and played in their player with their interface.
In the same search session that I found this thread, I found youtube videos from 2008 for CorePlayer running on the iPhone. Two years ago they claimed then it was real close to being submitted to the App Store. It has never seen the light of day. Has anyone found any other apps with Rockbox like functionality for a jailbroken phone? The closest thing I have found is MPlayer in Cydia. I installed it and nothing happens except a blank screen for a few seconds. Maybe I have to pass it a file from a command line but I am not sure.
paulheu:
I believe I have everything installed correctly;
Ubuntu 10.10
Rockbox source
android SDK and NDK (latest)
Compiling rockbox without errors
make zip without errors
make apk gives me:
...
DX bin/classes.dex
APK bin/_rockbox.apk
THIS TOOL IS DEPRECATED. See --help for more information.
KEYTOOL debug.keystore
SIGN rockbox.apk
...
I have been looking for help on this on the web, but sofar no luck Only thing I foudn was not to use apkbuilder but use aapt instead.. not sure if we do and if not how to change it..
any help appreciated..
EDIT: found the warning should only mean the tool is superseded and not break the build. However the resulting APK will not install on my HTC desire..
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version