Strawberry Remote Controller
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I created a remote controller for this player. It is only for Android devices. I will provide a link to what I have made so people can let me know if there is an interest in continuing my work. I would need my code reviewed and added to the main program for this to work. I only made it for a medium sized screen, but will make more if people are interested. Also, with Google changing its policy on side loading apps, if people do want me to continue, I will need testers for this, and they apparently would need to have a link sent to them from Google. I have not yet put anything online other than the code itself and a readme with some images and functionality write-up.
A known issue is when songs are added to the player screen via drag and drop, it has default values (id = -1, cover image is empty etc). It tends to mess with the playlist until the program is closed and the playlist is saved. Once restarted, the app sees the proper information.
Here is the github link: https://github.com/jacktolmie/strawberry_app
Be kind, this is the first real program I have made. I am hesitant to put it in public
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@FuzzyBottom
Could you add build instructions and how to publish the build on the phone?
How does strawberry communicate with the remote? -
@jonas I can create an install file for side loading it on devices. It was created with Android Studio, so I should be able to create an APK. If people are interested, as stated above, I can get it up on Play Store where people could download it from there. Still figuring out that side of it though. As for testers, I do not really need testers, as much as I need people to use the app, and let Google know they are using it. They can send any issues to me, so that I can fix them etc.
As for how it communicates, everything is send via JSON. The server receives something like:
"{"command":"remote-changed-playlist","id":13,"from-index":0,"to-index":1}"
On the server side, it just communicates with the functions you already incorporated, and sends the data to that, then broadcasts a JSON response back to any clients connected to the server. I made no changes to any of your code, other than adding some Q_EMITs here and there to send changes, and I added a Remote Controller section in the settings section. If you want to see what I made, I will make my changed version public (I just forked your work), and you can view it if you so desire. It is mostly under the "src/remotecontroller/" folder.
https://github.com/jacktolmie/strawberry_remoteWith anyone having concerns about malicious code etc, I believe things like Claude AI etc should be able to view my code on GitHub, and let them know if anything is shady. A lot of it was done with help from AI, as I was learning this as I went along. Also, if they want to run a VM and install Android Studio, and the requirements needed to run your work on it, they could test it there and see if anything shady happens.
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@FuzzyBottom Is this duplicating what I've done? Testers needed
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@poldi54 After reading your latest post, it does seem that they are quite similar. You did not have any playlist support when I was working on mine. Mine is Android only. I might change it to support Apple, but am not sure yet. This might be a case of, there were no apps, now multiple for remote control
. Do you have any screen shots that I can look at? Mine are on the git page I provided. I would be interested in seeing your work, and if anything, maybe we can work together. Is yours Kotlin based? I read somewhere someone here was making one with Qt.
