Rockbox as an Application (Android, WebOS etc.)

[Jamespoo1]

will this work on the alatel pop c3 mobile phone

[daemonspudguy]

Has work on this been completely abandoned?

[gomezz]

For my usage I have found the Smart Audiobook Player app fits my needs best on my Android phone after moving on from using Rockbox on my Sansa Clip+ as a result of the vans at work being replaced with a fleet with radios with no aux input but which do support Bluetooth with autoplay.

In particular SABP supports auto-rewind when Pause / Playing which is useful for restoring context when pausing mid-sentence and also has a mono setting (which is rare amongst music player apps) and a Boost button if the recording level is too low.  There are rudimentary EQ settings (compared to Rockbox) but I just leave them flat.

(though I still prefer to use the Clip+ with Rockbox and corded headphones when going for a run and also when listening to a recorded sports commentary to a single corded earbud while working)

[saratoga]

Has work on this been completely abandoned?

The application port is used on various devices, and discussed in their respective threads. The android application specifically is not being actively developed for smartphones presently because it's tricky to make run on the newer android runtimes, although not necessarily impossible.

Since this is a development thread, please keep discussion related to development.

[Bilgus]

Vitt13 asks
Does he[hp30] contribute http://hp30.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-44.html to developing Rockbox?
There are a lot of blog entries to build Rockbox on Android 10.

Contents page http://hp30.blog.fc2.com/blog-category-9.html
https://hp30-blog-fc2-com.translate.goog/blog-category-9.html?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US

[gama]

@Bilgus, I am reading the blog you posted and he/she did manage to get rockbox running on an Android 10 device to some extent (haven't read everything carefully and I don't have an Android 4 device to compare).   Following his blog I have managed to build the apk and successfully opened rockbox on Android 7.0.  If you or someone else is interested I could try to write a patch once I have merged all the changes from the blog.  For me it is very important because I want to use rockbox in a modern Walkman or Ibasso player to listen to some chiptune music .

I will try to contact him to see if he is interested in submitting the patch to the tracker himself.

[Milardo]

@Bilgus, I am reading the blog you posted and he/she did manage to get rockbox running on an Android 10 device to some extent (haven't read everything carefully and I don't have an Android 4 device to compare).   Following his blog I have managed to build the apk and successfully opened rockbox on Android 7.0.  If you or someone else is interested I could try to write a patch once I have merged all the changes from the blog.  For me it is very important because I want to use rockbox in a modern Walkman or Ibasso player to listen to some chiptune music .

I will try to contact him to see if he is interested in submitting the patch to the tracker himself.

Hi, could you upload the apk, I'd like to see if it works on my android devices. That would be great if you could submit a patch here as well. Is this apk something that one could compile in a linux os?

[gama]

Hi, could you upload the apk, I'd like to see if it works on my android devices. That would be great if you could submit a patch here as well. Is this apk something that one could compile in a linux os?

I am working on implementing all the changes hp30 has done.  Once I have tested all of them i will try to contact him and ask him about it.

Yes, you can compile it in linux  No need for Android Studio.  I am using debian through WSL2.  I am using latest android-sdk (apt-get install android-sdk), the linux command line tools (https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line) to install platform 19 through sdkmanager.  And ndk version r10e (https://github.com/android/ndk/wiki/Unsupported-Downloads).

And followed the instructions found in rockbox/android/README.

[Jamespoo1]

 

[gama]

Hi, just a heads up!  I have uploaded two patches to run (to some extent) rockbox on newer android devices.

I cannot take apk requests cuz I am too busy.  But you can read about it here:  https://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/13339

Well, see ya.  Hope someone is still interested in this .

UPDATE: As of commit 6dcbf7ff77b0596c3317a76097e8b0c1c2f8158a, there is a floating point error when pressing volume buttons.

[sadur]

Hi.
Any news on this?
I'm very interested on having rockbox working on my android 13 device.
I have an old android 2.3.6 and another 4.0.4, but it would be awesome if I can use it in newer android versions as main music player.
Thanks!

[barinov2000]

While you are waiting you might want to give Musicolet player app a try. It's no Rockbox but it will do most of the job.