[boinc_dev] gsoc introduction

2012-05-02 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
Hi boinc_dev, As you might have heard, BOINC is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code project, which gives out scholarships to students all over the world to spend their summer period participating in open source projects. I am very happy that my project proposal got picked this

[boinc_dev] introducing gsoc project

2012-05-04 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
Hi boinc_dev, As you might have heard, BOINC is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code program, which gives out scholarships to students all over the world to spend their summer period participating in open source projects. I am very happy that my project proposal got picked this

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC on ARM

2012-12-17 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
Thank you for sharing this! I had those changes on my agenda as well. The parsing of the cache size breaks the build for me, so I created a patch file that omits these parts[1]. I tested it on two devices: the Client gets the proper CPU description now. This can help targeting specific ARM

Re: [boinc_dev] Android architecture

2013-01-06 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
is) is based on BOINC; 2) click on the BOINC icon to control Einstein@home 3) you can add other projects if you want. -- David On 04-Jan-2013 8:00 AM, Joachim Fritzsch wrote: Hi! I want to propose an architecture change for BOINC on Android. The initial design combines Client and Manager

Re: [boinc_dev] Android Test Build

2013-01-16 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Rom Walton r...@romwnet.org wrote: Howdy Folks, ** ** Sorry this took a little longer than anticipated, I switched by build environment over to Linux. For some reason I was ending up with corrupted apk files under Windows. ** ** I’ll be

Re: [boinc_dev] Android Data Directory

2013-01-19 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
Rom, you are right. Generally speaking: files sitting in the internal storage can not be accessed by another Android app. The BOINC Android app, the core client and the scientific BOINC apps have unrestricted access to each others files. A separate project Android app has not. However, the

Re: [boinc_dev] Android Test Build

2013-01-19 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
the Android GUI toolkit. It's a work in progress, and may change a lot in the future. BOINC on Android was developed by Joachim Fritzsch as a Google Summer of Code project in 2012. He's continuing to work on it (supported by Einstein@home) and Rom will also be working on it. We hope

Re: [boinc_dev] Android Test Build

2013-01-20 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
conflict) Cheers, Joachim On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Joachim Fritzsch joachim.fritz...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Daniel Carrion dcarrio...@gmail.comwrote: Managed to get this working with POGS using anonymous platform, as the project currently doesn't

Re: [boinc_dev] Android Test Build

2013-01-21 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
is not called when you uninstall an app. Regards Daniel On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Joachim Fritzsch joachim.fritz...@gmail.com wrote: I have uploaded a new test build of the current master branch to: http://fridgelike.com/boinc/BOINC.apk Daniel: This package is unsigned, debuggable

Re: [boinc_dev] Android Test Build

2013-01-27 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
11:29:36 PM---Howdy Folks, From: Rom Walton r...@romwnet.org To: Kevin Reed/Chicago/IBM@IBMUS, Jonathan D Armstrong/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, Keith J Uplinger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, Joachim Fritzsch joachim.fritz...@gmail.com Cc: David Anderson (BOINC) da...@ssl.berkeley.edu, Charlie Fenton charl

Re: [boinc_dev] Proposal: Android Attach Process

2013-01-27 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
Expecting users to figure out what project to support with a browser and than copying the URL is definitely not intuitive. One way to avoid it: project-branded Android applications that make use of the AIDL interface to attach their project. Those would hard-code their specific project URL.

Re: [boinc_dev] Proposal: Android Attach Process

2013-01-28 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
. ** ** - Rom ** ** ** ** *From:* Joachim Fritzsch [mailto:joachim.fritz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Sunday, January 27, 2013 1:07 PM *To:* Rom Walton *Cc:* boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu *Subject:* Re: Proposal: Android Attach Process ** ** Expecting users to figure out what project

Re: [boinc_dev] Errors building wrapper for Android

2013-01-28 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Charlie Fenton charl...@ssl.berkeley.eduwrote: On Jan 27, 2013, at 9:19 PM, Rom Walton wrote: Should be fixed. Thanks. But I am curious why the CFLAGS are different from the CXXFLAGS in all 5 Android build scripts: boinc/android/build_curl.ssh,

Re: [boinc_dev] Rename MainActivity class?

2013-01-28 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
Hi Charlie, that is correct. Technically it does not matter how the starting Activity is called as long as it is declared in the AndroidManifest.xml. Calling them is also not problematic since they are in different java packages, i.e. edu.berkeley.boinc.MainActivity vs

Re: [boinc_dev] Syntax Errors in BOINC UI

2013-01-28 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
Seems like the support library is missing in the project. I am using a few classes that got introduced with API level 11 and later. Many people are still using the versions before, so I added an official backwards support library from Google to keep the minSDK on 8.

Re: [boinc_dev] iOS Cross Compile (based on Android)?

2013-02-04 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
Everything we have documented in terms of building science apps for Android is: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AndroidBuildApp To get the whole picture, start: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AndroidBoincImpl In a nutshell: Get the Google Android NDK, which includes the cross compiler

Re: [boinc_dev] [eah_android] Re: Android battery issues

2013-02-08 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 8:33 PM, David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.eduwrote: On 08-Feb-2013 1:14 AM, Raistmer the Sorcerer wrote: NativeBOINc has option in local preferences/computing: While battery temperature less than xxx C. Default is 100.0C. From what I've seen (by Googling android

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC Daemon Lifecycle on Android

2013-02-15 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
Hi Rom, I am impressed by the progress being made during the past week, keep it up! On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Rom Walton r...@romwnet.org wrote: Joachim, et al., ** ** I have stumbled across some issues with starting up the BOINC daemon on Android and I needed to get some

Re: [boinc_dev] Android Transition Portrait/Landscape mode

2013-02-15 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
connection failed! ** ** *From:* Joachim Fritzsch [mailto:joachim.fritz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, February 15, 2013 4:16 AM *To:* Rom Walton *Cc:* BOINC Developers Mailing List *Subject:* Re: BOINC Daemon Lifecycle on Android ** ** Hi Rom, ** ** I am impressed

Re: [boinc_dev] Android Transition Portrait/Landscape mode

2013-02-16 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
, Rom Walton r...@romwnet.org wrote: Wouldn't that have prevented the initial connection? - Rom -- *From:* Joachim Fritzsch [mailto:joachim.fritz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Fri 2/15/2013 1:55 PM *To:* Rom Walton *Cc:* BOINC Developers Mailing List *Subject:* Re

Re: [boinc_dev] Android Transition Portrait/Landscape mode

2013-02-19 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
it is not compatible with the API version 9 we are targeting. Unfortunately. - Rom -Original Message- From: David Anderson [mailto:da...@ssl.berkeley.edu] Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 2:34 PM To: Rom Walton Cc: Joachim Fritzsch; BOINC Developers Mailing List Subject: Re: [boinc_dev

[boinc_dev] BOINC on Android - file system findings

2013-03-18 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
I have investigated the Android file system to find possibilities to make use of the SD card. Some things are officially documented, some I have tried on a Samsung Galaxy S2 and the AVD. - the directory returned by the java framework call Context.getExternalFilesDir() (usually /mnt/sdcard) is

Re: [boinc_dev] NativeBOINC's dev reports some bug in timer thread.

2013-03-19 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
I guess you are referring to this commit?! https://github.com/matszpk/native-boinc-for-android/commit/8c8ccabee7b6b3f34c2bae0f2d72a49f2d8107da On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 8:52 AM, David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.eduwrote: Why isn't Mateuzs participating in this email list? -- David On

[boinc_dev] BOINC on Android - Preferences

2013-03-19 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
I have updated the preferences tab. a) it is now using a global override preferences as default to make sure important settings like fetch work only on wifi are set from the start. b) there are now more preferences exposed through the UI. To avoid confusion for non-tech users, most of them are

Re: [boinc_dev] wiki: global_prefs_override page missing suspend_cpu_usage

2013-03-27 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
wifi_only is missing, too. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:46 PM, attila csaba marosi at...@sztaki.huwrote: Hello! Please add suspend_cpu_usage%f/suspend_cpu_usage to the sample xml at https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Global_prefs_override.xml . The parameter is parsed by the client but missing

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC o.A. - client power management bug

2013-04-07 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
makes sense. This is not the reason for the behavior below, then... -- David On 05-Apr-2013 6:28 AM, Joachim Fritzsch wrote: There is a bug in the power management of the client on Android: It occurs preference run on batteries is 0. Independently from Android version. Independently whether

[boinc_dev] higher res project images

2013-04-27 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
Hi! The project images for BOINC GUIs currently have the resolution: - icon 40 * 40 pixels - slideshow 290 * 126 Are there attempts to increase those? With the vast variety of screens (on Android devices anything form 3 to 60 inch) it would be neat to have (additionally to the ones in place

[boinc_dev] android: account manager support

2013-09-11 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
I have committed code changes to support account managers in the Android GUI. There are a few screenshots in my dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i1ebp0xffoujx3m/H_jKaIQwNa - complete blue background indicates: account manager - blue background of project icon indicates that this project gets

[boinc_dev] android: transfers in Projects tab

2013-10-01 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
I am getting rid off the Transfers tab in the Android UI, because: - there are barely ever active transfers to show. - the only interaction with an individual ongoing transfer is to abort it, which I do not see as a common use case. - making room for a more informative tab (Notices) Instead, a

Re: [boinc_dev] android: transfers in Projects tab

2013-10-01 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
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Re: [boinc_dev] android: transfers in Projects tab

2013-10-02 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
I am going to add retry as project command, if there are transfers pending. Joachim On 02.10.2013, at 00:48, Stephen Maclagan stephen.macla...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: I'd like a retry transfers button. My Nexus 7 only uses Wifi, and i don't have 24 hour Wifi here, it normally uses a Fon

Re: [boinc_dev] android: transfers in Projects tab

2013-10-17 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
I have added retry transfers as control in the Projects tab. If a project has pending transfers it will offer this command in the pop up dialog. Joachim On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Joachim Fritzsch joachim.fritz...@gmail.com wrote: Kind of. If you enable Advanced preferences and controls

[boinc_dev] Android x86 and MIPS support

2013-11-17 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
I have added support for multiple architectures to the Android Manager. Rom has provided the scripts to set up the various toolchains and to build the core client. BOINC platform strings are: arm-android-linux-gnu x86-android-linux-gnu mipsel-android-linux-gnu It has only been tested on

[boinc_dev] android - new manager layout

2013-11-25 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
I have worked on a fresh design of the Android manager during the past week. This became necessary, because the new design guidelines are enforced when trying to use the current APIs - which we need to to implement most items on our agenda. Google published a support library this fall, that

Re: [boinc_dev] git pull does no longer work due to a Cr-Lf issue

2014-01-31 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
I had the same problem. After two hours of frustration I gave up and re-cloned the repo. Joachim On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Toralf Förster toralf.foers...@gmx.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ick, today I run again into a problem with the git tree of the

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc-android-testing] Problems with BOINC 7.4.14 on android

2014-10-01 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Eric J Korpela korp...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: Don't know if all of these are known problems. 1. When attaching a project, the project menu always displays in portrait mode. That is by intention, it makes the layout much easier. 2. When attaching a

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc-android-testing] Problems with BOINC 7.4.14 on android

2014-10-01 Thread Joachim Fritzsch
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Eric J Korpela korp...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Joachim Fritzsch joachim.fritz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Eric J Korpela korp...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: Don't know if all of these are known problems