Rockbox as an Application (Android, WebOS etc.)

[paulheu]

So I got this going quite nicely on my HTC desire.. I hope to be able to do regular (daily) builds and put them up on my server..

Been searching for reasons why an update won't work, you need to uninstall rockbox before you can install a newer version. sofar have not found anything useful..

After being active on the iRiver H3x0 port years back it's good to be here again.. looks like RB has been getting better and better..

Oh and as it seems this is more and more about the android app instead of 'general' rockbox as an app maybe it's an idea to change the thread title .. or start a new one..

[JdGordon]

an update will work as long as the new apk and the installed one came form the same source/key...

[paulheu]

I will have to try that.. sound logical to me..

Edit: That worked perfectly yes..

[[Saint]]

Well, you haven't worked on what I asked you about yet, so no wonder it's not in yet.

Well, I'm always on IRC...you can talk to me there.

Last I remember about it you were of the opinion that it needed to match the other Tango icons more closely...and I wasn't.

I don't see any reason why it couldn't go in now, personally. AFAIK it was just you that didn't like it.

EDIT: If I go by the tracker task, then...you asked me to do something, I did, you never commented.

So, I don't think it's such a "no wonder" case at all.


[St.]

[musta susi]

Maybe I sound hackneyed, but I tried to build the app a couple of times and the WPS always show me the next song in this structure:

Artist name

Next song

Song Title

While I was trying the first prebuild in the Wiki (320X240) on the other hand, it was looking like I want it:

Next song:

Artist name

Song Title

Album Title

Why is that?

[AceNik]

So I got this going quite nicely on my HTC desire.. I hope to be able to do regular (daily) builds and put them up on my server..

Been searching for reasons why an update won't work, you need to uninstall rockbox before you can install a newer version. sofar have not found anything useful..

After being active on the iRiver H3x0 port years back it's good to be here again.. looks like RB has been getting better and better..

Oh and as it seems this is more and more about the android app instead of 'general' rockbox as an app maybe it's an idea to change the thread title .. or start a new one..

hey thanks for the Build for desire, i tried the build out somehow it creates multiple duplicate entries for the database say 2 entries per track any idea how to fix this

it good progress btw was wating on this one, used an iRiver h10 earlier

[paulheu]

Right now the build seems hardly usable. While it seems to work it's obvious up until now Rockbox has been developed with devices having smaller resolution screens in mind. Obviouslythis is fine by itself and I fully expect this to improve as hopefully skins will show up which are suited for these resolutions.

In my opinion it would be nice to see the skinning engine be optionally auto-scaling to the LCD resolution. As it is you would have to create a separate skin for each separate screenresoluton which could well be a nightmare. IMO the processing power of smartphones could well allow for such a scling enige or maybe a stand alone utility which would prepare a skin for the desires resolution..

As we all know this port is far from done. I hope to find soem time in the near future to try and get soe work in expecially on the skinning part..

[JdGordon]

as has been said numerous times, trying to scale the images would look crap. the viewports and all text tags already scale properly.

We should be using a single android build which loads the correct theme for the display but that is a different story

[Falco98]

http://jdgordon.info/rockbox/rockbox.apk needs testing... it's just about svn and a patch to make rockbox figure out the lcd size on load instead of having to need one apk for each phone.

so test it out and let me know any issues which weren't happening before.

That apk requires a sdcard because it extracts a bunch of files there, you probably want to clear the data in the android app settings for rockbox so you can reclaim about 15MB

Got it, and got audio...  2 little questions, and sorry if these were covered elsewhere previously (i did check);
1) how do you.. um.. exit the application when you want to close it?
2) how can I get it to install onto the SDcard?  If I install it in the phone memory it takes up every last ounce of (already-limited) space, and won't do for the long-run.

Thanks!!

[BenBrown]

I worked on the plugin keymaps for the android port all night long FS#11898 it probably wont work with the auto resizing thing you are doing but someone may enjoy it. Cheers

[zyl198535]

How can I get the newest rockbox test apk, who can help me. Thank you!

[paulheu]

did a new build, up at my server

[Benway]

How can I get the newest rockbox test apk, who can help me. Thank you!

I'd also like to try the App on my Galaxy Tab. Which recent prebuilt .apk can you recommend to me? Thanks!

[[Saint]]

How can I get the newest rockbox test apk, who can help me. Thank you!

I'd also like to try the App on my Galaxy Tab. Which recent prebuilt .apk can you recommend to me? Thanks!

Your options at this point if you want to test the current RaaA build pretty much consist solely of "check out the source and compile it yourself"...

If you find a build floating around that matches your targets resolution, great, but chances are it won't be current SVN, and it definitely won't be "official".



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[cermak_rd]

I'm pleased with rockbox on android. I was using them from the link in the android port wiki but the resolution and calibration wasn't quite right, so I got the SDK and NDK going on linux and built it myself for my Archos tablet specs.

Since I'm used to using Sansa players with Rockbox, this is nice because it's a UI I'm familiar with and rockbox works well with my nfs and samba mounts.

Thanks to the developers who both ported it and put the excellent instructions in so I could figure out how to do it.