[Commotion-dev] batphone/olsr GUI dev sync

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

It should be possible to make a Remote Service that runs in the
background and is only killed as a last resort.  It has to be a Remote
Service, because that is the only way that I know to make the Service
run in its own process.  We use this in our Gibberbot app to maintain
the connections to the XMPP server even if the app is killed, and we
run it a lot on Samsungs.  I checked the AndroidManifest.xml and it
seems like there is no Remote Service, only standard Services.

Also, I just tried to build the head of 'development', and got the
errors below:

ndk-build:
        [exec] jni/Android.mk:65: jni/serval-dna/Android.mk: No such
file or directory
        [exec] make: *** No rule to make target
`jni/serval-dna/Android.mk'.  Stop.

Here's what I did before:

- android update project --path .
- set sdk.dir and env.NDK_ROOT in local.properties

.hc


On 03/12/2012 05:37 PM, Jeremy Lakeman wrote:
> Actually, I've just reworked the way batphone executes shell commands
> pretty much exactly like that in the development branch, though I'm
> not keeping the shell open. These changes also make it easier to tell
> the different between su permission errors and errors from executing
> other commands, simplifying a fair amount of code and giving better
> error messages.
> 
> We've had one phone that was impossible to root permanently, so the
> software would always check for root permission when it was started.
> But some other phones are very aggressive at killing background
> processes (eg samsung's), which would cause the root test to pop up
> quite frequently.
> 
> So we now run a foreground service when the software is "on" which
> prevents us being killed, and we remember if we had root permission in
> a setting that is only cleared on boot. As well as tweaking a couple
> of other places where running commands as root could be avoided.
> 
> 0.08 is feature complete, and we've pretty much run out of blocking
> issues. So you can expect to see a release candidate build soon.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
> <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Jeremy and all,
>>
>> I would like to try to keep the OLSR Android GUI app that I'm working on
>> as in sync as possible with batphone, since all of the adhoc/edify/olsrd
>> infrastructure will be exactly the same.  So far I've been working with
>> batphone 0.0.7, which seems to be the head of master in git.  But there
>> is a lot of work in the 'development' branch, some of which looks
>> related.  Does it make sense for me to switch over to syncing with your
>> development branch?
>>
>> Also, some feedback on the command line stuff: currently, in the setup
>> wizard in 0.0.7 asks for root permission on each step.  I generally do
>> not grant apps permanent root perms, so that means I have to confirm
>> granting root perms on each step of the wizard, and probably each step
>> of the app running.  I propose that this app instead launch a root
>> shell, then execute commands as root by sending them to this shell.
>>
>> This way, batphone will only ever ask once for root permission when it
>> needs it.  We've done this in Lil' Debi and some other apps and it works
>> well.
>>
>> .hc
>>
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