[Commotion-dev] SPAN Apps Published to Google Play

[stoker]

Hi Paul,

We look forward to trying out the Serval Mesh app update. The current
app supports a number of features, including text chat, placing calls,
sharing files, and mapping. Does your team have plans to separate each
of those features out into separate app? I believe that will make
matters simpler from a developer's as well as from a user's
perspective.

Thanks for pointing us to your handset detection and support code.
Since both of our projects are using the edify approach, I believe it
won't be difficult to integrate our code. However, I believe that it
would be best for the Commotion team to integrate all of our
mesh-enabling code into their Mesh Tether app.

As I see it, there are three kinds of devices that the teams are
primarily targeting:
- devices which support wext and can be put into ad-hoc mode without
kernel mods (Serval)
- devices which don't support wext and can be put into ad-hoc mode
without kernel mods (Commotion)
- devices which require kernel mods (SPAN)

I believe we'd all like to see one app which can support all three. I
believe that the Commotion team is best suited for the task
considering their focus and large developer base. More developers
means a wider array of devices to test on and more long-term support.

- stoker


On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Paul Gardner-Stephen
<paul at servalproject.org> wrote:
> Hi Stoker,
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 8:39 AM, stoker <mistr.stoker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> For those who want to get geeky, I just posted three apps to Google
>> Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=stoker
>>
>> Try 'em out.
>>
>> Both the Manet Visualizer and Manet Voice Chat apps make use of a
>> common API for interacting with the Manet Service that comes bundled
>> with the Manet Manager app. I believe that the idea of a common API
>> for making use of the mesh platform may be one of the aspects that
>> sets SPAN apart from other projects.
>
> This is great.
>
> The Serval Mesh app (which is about to get a HEAVY update) also offers
> some APIs, but probably mostly in complementary areas to your Manet
> Manager.  We will endeavour to take a look at your apps soon.
>
> With regard to handset support, it might be worth taking a look at our
> handset detection and support code
> (https://github.com/servalproject/batphone), as we have already built
> support for a number of other handsets, and an automatic guessing
> engine that can build support scripts for some new handsets it
> encounters.  It's not perfect, but it may be useful to incorporate
> into Manet Manager.
>
> Paul.
>
>> - stoker
>>
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