Rockbox as an Application (Android, WebOS etc.)

[kugel.]

* Easy porting of C/C++ applications to webOS, especially games that use SDL or OpenGL ES (1.1 or 2.0) for 3D graphics

If it supports SDL, then RaaA should be ready to run. Although a native port would run much better.

[Davide-NYC]

If it supports SDL, then RaaA should be ready to run. Although a native port would run much better.

For someone of my skill set that sounds like a gross oversimplification. What would getting this running entail?

As a very interesting aside:
I strongly suspect this would be one of the most popular apps (if not *the* most popular app) in the PDK hot apps catalog...
Does this mean that Rockbox could win $100,000? (One Hundred Thousand Dollars)
http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2085

Am I missing something? Should Rockbox not try for this? The contest ends at the end of September. Is there not enough time?

[funman]

Does this mean that Rockbox could win $100,000? (One Hundred Thousand Dollars)

Perhaps

Am I missing something? Should Rockbox not try for this? The contest ends at the end of September. Is there not enough time?

You're missing that rockbox wouldn't do much with $100,000

We're a bunch of volunteers, we don't need money, and do what we like to do.

EDIT: if nobody likes to port rockbox to WebOS, then it won't be done

[Davide-NYC]

 

we don't need money

 

You mean to tell me that the Rockbox steering committee could find absolutely no good use for a pile of money?

Ridiculous.

[JdGordon]

You mean to tell me that the Rockbox steering committee could find absolutely no good use for a pile of money?

Ridiculous.

Any idea other than "fly all who wanted to a devcon and have a massive piss up" is just stupid!

[funman]

What can't we do today, that we could do with money?

The only thing that comes to my mind is: buy Apple and Sandisk to get access to source code / schematics, but $100,000 isn't going to help.

BTW the steering committee is not deciding rockbox direction, it just exists to solve conflicts which can't be resolved (and it was luckily never needed).

[GodEater]

I've now merged as many  New Ports topics as I can find where the over-arching "solution" is to have Rockbox running as an application on the target mentioned.

A lot of people already know, but perhaps forums regulars who do not subscribe to the mailing lists or who do not hang out in IRC may not - that kugel managed the obligatory "Ladies and Gentleman, we have sound!" email for his Android based "Hero" "Legend" phone last night.

Many many congratulations to him, and may this be just the beginning of Rockbox running on a lot of new devices.

[bYOndo]

Hello!
so am I the first reporting user in this thread..? I'm honored 
I installed the 480x800 version (ehm there's a typo on the wiki page), on my Archos 5IT, running Android 1.6
It works pretty well, but some time, when I put RB app in background (using other apps)  it just stops playing music, so I return to it, the WPS is stuck on "play", i do a little fast-forward and/or rewind, then it returns playing music normally. Other times, with music stopped, I select a song and press "play", WPS compares, but music doesn't start. The "ff-rw trick" does the job in this case too. 
I tried some codecs (mp3, ogg and mpc), eq's and crossfeed. and everything is just playing fine!
Another thing, I don't know if it's my software fault, the app doesn't require "fullscreen mode" (in 320x480 ver. it did indeed) so I have the screen drifted down by the android status bar.

Thanks once more, kugel, for your great work!

Massimo
     

[RowaN]

I installed the Rockbox APK from AndroidPort wiki page on my Samsung Galaxy S (Android 2.1), but it seems to just hang at the Rockbox splash screen. I installed it from my microSD card using one of the "AppInstaller" apps (free from the App Market), not using the SDK as instructed on the AndroidPort wiki page, not sure if that will have made a difference.
p.s. Really excited to see Rockbox coming to Android.

[kugel.]

Please don't report bugs on the prebuilt apks I host. They are not automatically build and therefore might not reflect SVN (they could even contain changes not in svn). There's little point in bug reports because I don't know what exact code they're based off.

They're just for the guys interested. Wait for auto-built apks.

[dip]

I also would love to have rockbox on my Samsung Galaxy S but have the same problem as RowaN with the not official prebuilt apks.

Previously I used rockbox on my iPod Video and was able to compile my own version with the prebuilt Rockbox VMware image.

Is it possible to use this also to build an Android version?

If not, is there a VMware image for download available which makes building an Android version as easy as it is for the iPod?

Thanks a lot for any answer.

[coolmak]

tested the prebuilt 480*800 version on a nexus one @ cyanogenmod 6 (which is based on android 2.2) and it surprisingly it worked! it was a challenge to use the user interface at first, but then i got it......it played sound!

kugel, you are my hero of the day.

ideas:
1) text is damn small to read, is there a way to make this bigger?
2) a "how to use" button

[Chronon]

You can download the font pack and use a different font (though this may mess up alignment/formatting of text in the WPS).  If this doesn't give acceptable results you can try loading a theme for a different resolution from the theme site or you can create themes for your screen's resolution using the information at the CustomWPS page in the wiki.

[dip]

Since the prebuilt version does not work on my Samsung Galaxy S I will try to build a new version from the present svn using the instruktion in the wiki.

Before I begin, could somebody with more experience than me confirm that it is possible to do this within the vmware image?

Thanks a lot.

[djp518]

Sound playback system does't work on my moto milestone (Android 2.1,Rockbox-480x800,r27794-100812)and chinese character can't display  -_-
I'm a rockbox fan from moto e680(motorola ezxlinux system),wholeheartly hope to huge success of android rockbox porject

ps: I'm a chinese with bad english,please don't laugh at me...