Slightly OT: Android client

[cpd73]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:41:31 +0000, kidstypike wrote:

> If you're running a local LMS, install the "Material" plugin, and run in
> a browser on your phone.

Cute.

I made a trivial Android app to make it even easier (i.e., eliminate the
browser).

https://github.com/sciurius/lms-app

Have fun!

-- Johan

Looks slimilar to: https://github.com/andreasbehnke/lms-material-app - this, AFAIR, does allow specifying the server details in its config. It also wires the volume up/down buttons to Materials volume functions.

[jvromans@squirrel.nl]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:49:18 +0000, cpd73
<cpd73.98bm5b (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com> wrote:

> Looks slimilar to: https://github.com/andreasbehnke/lms-material-app -
> this, AFAIR, does allow specifying the server details in its config. It
> also wires the volume up/down buttons to Materials volume functions.

It says that it is obsolete, but I'll see if I can learn some tricks
from it. Thanks for the pointer!

-- Johan

[cpd73]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:49:18 +0000, cpd73
<cpd73.98bm5b (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com> wrote:

> Looks slimilar to: https://github.com/andreasbehnke/lms-material-app -
> this, AFAIR, does allow specifying the server details in its config. It
> also wires the volume up/down buttons to Materials volume functions.

It says that it is obsolete, but I'll see if I can learn some tricks
from it. Thanks for the pointer!

-- Johan

If you feel like developing... what would be great (and I've been thinking of looking into for a while) is a generic web-app applicaiton that can install shortcuts to the homescreen. i.e. Launch main app, and it has a list of saved URLs, and allows you to add new ones. For each of these URLs it should add a shortcut to the homescreen (like browsers do) allowing the spcified URL to be launched in a new fullscreen window. That way it would work wth Material, and any other sites.

[jvromans@squirrel.nl]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:59:02 +0000, cpd73
<cpd73.98bpdz (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com> wrote:

> If you feel like developing... what would be great (and I've been
> thinking of looking into for a while) is a generic web-app applicaiton
> that can install shortcuts to the homescreen. i.e. Launch main app, and
> it has a list of saved URLs, and allows you to add new ones. For each of
> these URLs it should add a shortcut to the homescreen (like browsers do)
> allowing the spcified URL to be launched in a new fullscreen window.

If you take a good look at the lms-app, you can see it is precisely that.
Just change the url in config.xml...

For my wife, who is severely handicapped after a stroke, I made this
generic webview app and use (distinct copies of) it with different
URLs. So she has a simple 'button' (app) on her home screen that launches
one specific site, and always starts at the beginning (no history), full
screen, etc. Another buttton (app) launches a different site, and so on.