Martin Sandsmark wrote: Hello,
> On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 10:34:43AM -0700, Matthew McKeen wrote: >> I know about the other integration utilities out there that exist, but my >> idea was doing integration directly into the plasma desktop. For >> example, notification would show up in the notifications area, and >> battery information could be seen from the device manager. > > Maybe you could leverage for example the open source "android-notifier" > project?: https://code.google.com/p/android-notifier/ > > Their current desktop client is an ugly (IMHO) Java application, but I > think at least reusing the Android part of it (and thereby their protocol > for communicating with the desktop) would be a good idea. I have implemented a simple plasmoid to display the notifications from Android notifier (the protocol itself is very simple and is documented in their wiki), but I feel that that isn't a proper integration. There are a couple of points which I don't like about it: 1) You need to have your phone connected to the wifi/bluetooth/ (though usb over ADB is also available), which I don't mind keeping on to save the battery. Over wifi the notifier just broadcasts the messages over UDP. 2) At its current state, it only supports of handful of notifications (ring, sms, mms, battery, ping) and seems to be unmaintained now. Anyway, those types of events are not really enough in my opinion. 3) No control over the device. Would be nice to do something more than just receive some information from the phone. When I investigated a bit how to make it nicely, I found out that one can get _all_ normal Android notifications by registering your application as a screenreader/helper, which with nice filtering could be one way to do it. Also, what I'd like to see is ability to pass those notifications over normal data connection; many people have some kind of data plan, so it would be one possible way to do it. The question which remains though is that what to use as a intermediator for delivering the communication. Anyway, I'm eagerly waiting for someone to work on this though, it would be so nice to get all the notifications (and perhaps even do some controlling, like sending SMS messages) directly from KDE. -- Best Regards, Teemu Rytilahti >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
