Rockbox as an Application (Android, WebOS etc.)

[saratoga]

Hi - I've wanted to contribute a mod to Rockbox for 6 years but have never got my head around C++.
 I can dabble in Java and was wondering if that's all I'd need to attempt to write an auto beat-matching mod I've been after (but never requested) for Rockbox the android app?

No, just a small bit of the low level stuff is in Java.  You won't be able to do anything with just Java. 

BTW, we don't use any c++, just c.

[gevaerts]

Hi - I've wanted to contribute a mod to Rockbox for 6 years but have never got my head around C++.

It's a good thing rockbox isn't written in C++ then.

[zantarob]

Oh well...

Thanks saratoga, gevaerts.

[Hotobu]

So I'm reading through the last pages of this thread and can see that there isn't a final build for the Android OS. Is this because it's unfinished, or is it this way by design so people can assemble it the way they want? If there is an initiative for a final working product how close in terms of % would you all say an Android version is to being done?

I have no idea about any sort of programming, but I'd like to put Rockbox on an Android OS so it looks like I'm going to have to attempt to figure out how to compile a final working product.

[Xebozone]

Daily builds for 480x800 resolution. No compiling needed. Just install on your device like any other .apk file. If you don't know how to install a .apk file, there is plenty of tutorials for it online:

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,27394.0.html

[pondlife]

Is there any chance that the Rockbox UI could use the Android menus?

I briefly tried it on my Galaxy S2, but the initial font is so small as to make the menus almost unusable with my fat fingers.  I tried to edit config.cfg to compensate but in my n00bness I couldn't work out the paths required (e.g. where does /sdcard fit into this?).

I'd like to help with RaaA development - especially getting Rockbox to stream from a remote server (buffering using the local storage to improve use with a slow phone network)... any year now I may get the time!

pondlife

[[Saint]]

I'm working on a "nice" default theme, honest!

I've got the bulk of the code/images done, and the rest is figuring out a wee quirk with a particular skin tag, and figuring out a sane way to do a particular effect I'm trying to achieve with some nice popup tabs.

Blah...blah...real life stuff, been busy, <insert other various excuses here>...

I will make an effort to get theme two theme resolutions I have done presently polished (240X320 and 480X800), as well as getting the images done for the rest (320X480 & Co.) in the very near future when some time opens up for me. At which time I will be opening a new thread in the Themeing and Customization sub-forum for testing and opinions.

I know I've fallen off the theme wagon lately, and I'm starting to not deserve my artists badge as much as I perhaps did in the past...but, I'll try to make it up to you all soon, promise


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[dip]

It would be great to have a UI that uses the possibilities of the Android UI. I switch at the moment between Rockbox and Winamp for Android which has in my opinion a very nice UI but is far away from the countless possibilities Rockbox has.

All Android music player I tested lack e.g. on the (for me) important feature to use ALBUMARTIST for browsing or even to create a complex browse structure like it is possible in Rockbox (e.g. Classical -> Composer -> Grouping -> Artist -> Track for classical music). The reason seems to be that all Android music player use the standard Android tag library which is very limited. Only Rockbox does the scanning by itself which creates much more freedom for browsing.

But I have to admit that browsing by albums including seeing album art or the way how you can switch between the now playing screen and the current playlist and thousand other UI things which can e.g. Winamp handle would be very nice to have also in Rockbox.

[kugel.]

This is a development thread. Please stop posting your wish- or likelists here.

[CL0SeY]

Sorry to bring this up again.... but... I am having great success with using rockbox on my galaxy tab, even though the screen resolution is not properly built for it. I may think about building an apk for the 1024x768 resolution. So don't discount that resolution just because there isn't an 'optimal' ui for it yet, the current UI is quite usable.

I would like to thank you guys for your hard work as it's hard to find a decent lossless player for android.

[GodEater]

Is there any chance that the Rockbox UI could use the Android menus?

We've just had a longish chat about this at the 2011 DevCon, and think this is very definitely the way forward.

Of course, at the moment it's only really sitting in Mr Someone's TODO list - but at least all parties are agreed now.

PS - What happened to you this year? It's in London, and it's not clashing with Glastonbury!!!

[notlistening]

Just tried the new Landscape option on the Dell Streak, 800x400. Great addition and I like not having the turn the phone around now. There are some problems with the sizing of the 3x3 grid. The grid I guess is equal size, using this on the screen like the streaks actually makes it hard to use. What options would there be for giving row 2 and column 2 heavier weighting so the up, down, left, right and Ok blocks and bigger. As i use these more without looking and tend to go to the corners more for the other menus. As it stand i keep missing the ok, left and right buttons.

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-   Left -       Ok       - Right -
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[JdGordon]

Not gonna happen use a theme which doesn't need the fallback touch buttons

[Davide-NYC]

Hello Rockboxers!

I wish to donate a Palm Pre (now HP) to a qualified developer in the hopes of getting Rockbox ported to WebOS.

Please figure out who should receive the phone.

I'll check back in this thread in a few days to see if anyone wants to give porting Rockbox to WebOS a shot.

Davide-NYC.

[LambdaCalculus]

I wish to donate a Palm Pre (now HP) to a qualified developer in the hopes of getting Rockbox ported to WebOS.

Please figure out who should receive the phone.

I'll check back in this thread in a few days to see if anyone wants to give porting Rockbox to WebOS a shot.

Hey Davide!

There's an unofficial port of Rockbox to WebOS floating out there in the wild, wild world of the Web somewhere; a quick query to Google should reveal it.

The bigger matter is actually getting that source code back, then giving it a special massage with exotic oils from the mountains of India in the hopes of getting it into SVN and thus an official port.

But if you really want to donate the phone, PM me and we'll make arrangements. I'm still taking donated players for developers who are interested.