The Sandbox just opened...

For everyone who's interested in contributing code to the Official Android Remote but never had the time to read through all the code, here's your chance:

[INDENT]https://github.com/freezy/android-xbmcremote-sandbox[/INDENT]

This is a mini-project where I will commit the base of the future XBMC Remote code. Read more about it on GitHub and I'm lookin forward to pull-requests, comments and suggestions. Remember however that we're mostly talking about code here, not end-user features.

And if someone can come up with mockups for a tablet version, we would surely not be disappointed.

Cheers,

-freezy.

Hi There,

Is this still being worked on? I'd like to help out if I could. The main thing I want to do is add the ability to open playlists from the remote as that would be great.

Total n00b questions here, but:

1. What is this being coded in? Since it's an Android app, I'd assume Java.
2. What's the best way to get started?

Thanks,
Nathan

So it looks like I have to make something like a "PlaylistFragment" class and add that to the musicPagerActivity class. I'm guessing that Eclipse is probably the ide you guys use.

Am I on the right track? When are you guys thinking of inserting this code into the main trunk?

Thanks,
Nathan

If you only want the playlist feature, I suggest you better take a look at the other version and integrate it there. The sandbox is still too young for such kind of features.

Are there any plans or a list of things that need implementing? I might have a bit of spare time over the next few weeks if any coding needs doing. I assume the sandbox is the current place to develop.
I have a android htc desire phone and hp touchpad tablet (running android).

Yes, of course. I'm currently working on UI code that works for tablet and phone. Any idea what you would want to be working on?

Sorry loads of stuff cropped up as soon as I volunteered to help! Typical! I have a bit of free time now. What needs working on?

From README.md:

Quote:Figure out a faster way to manage updates. Right now, everything is re-inserted, with a ON CONFLICT REPLACE constraint on the ID. Importing 1.200 artists and 500 albums takes about 10 seconds. Seems pretty slow to me.

Basically the task would be to handle the one-way sync between XBMC and the remote as fast as possible. Have a look at the org.xbmc.android.jsonrpc.io.audio package, a good part of the current code is in there.

I think that would be a good start, since all the other things are already being worked on.

@freezy, could we do something like connecting to the mysql database from the android app and get data from there? would that be fast?

I came across a link that accesses the mysql from android maybe this will help you or give you more ideas have a look

http://www.basic4ppc.com/forum/basic4and...orial.html

Thanks

I have had a quick look so far and it looks like the slowest part is not receiving the data but inserting it into the local phone database.
On my system it takes 5892ms to sync and 4416ms of that is inserting the data. I am investigating...