Thread: Android Frontend App for tablets and phones

Thank You! Will be looking forward to it.
Also, For tablets which does not have 3G/4G (Phone Function) can it be possible to connect to a phone instead via bluetooth?

i believe he's been looking into the phone functionality as have i but haven't seen any way to connect 2 android devices and use one as a hands free unfortunately. but as with everything else, if there is a will there is a way, i'm sure we will see something in the future. DNLA funtionality is built into gingerbread i believe (if we ever see it) and im sure will be a big part of future builds of android. would definately be nice to see it here as well though.

I just wanted to say how stoked I am to see this thread, I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. Although some may disagree about Androids ability to be a viable option for carpi's I think it has all the potential and as you are proving it just takes someone with the skills to put out a quality front end

Originally Posted by sviyer

Can it play from dlna severs?

Thanks for the wonderful app, wil try it today.

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Thanks!

Originally Posted by NightJumper

@RipplingHurst- It shouldnt be too hard to do it, Ill look into it and see what it would take.


@Swivyer- Currently no it can not play from dlna servers, but that is an option and ill add it on the future feature list and look into it

Awesome. I have tested ORB (is that dlna?) and it works, but it's not friendly, just a list of files...

Originally Posted by antimatter

I just wanted to say how stoked I am to see this thread, I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. Although some may disagree about Androids ability to be a viable option for carpi's I think it has all the potential and as you are proving it just takes someone with the skills to put out a quality front end

Yep. I think that the future well have a headless carpc doing all the hard work (storage and physical connectivity like relays and qube devices) in the background with tablets working as a front end with pretty gpu accelerated graphics and voice and gesture control...

Great job on this! Personally I believe that most of the newer tablets provide you with the flexibility to configure your own personalized screen with built in gestures and multiple displays. However, this app provides a nice alternative to the "tablet-like" look. For me this provides nice shortcuts to my common apps. Here are my comments:

• I use Mortplayer so the buttons at the bottom I would never use unless perhaps there is an embedded video player
• It would be nice for an option to be able delete a launcher on a button. I tried holding over top a button where I have an app assigned and there is no option to delete it only replace.
• When I click Settings nothing happens
• I know you're working on gestures so that is great
• A clock with 12 and 12-hour options

Pretty cool though! Maybe I am missing something. How do I adjust settings?

It looks like you are going the right way.

One thing I would love is what you say from the start a easy way to use volume control from the screen, as Im looking to install a tablet as car stereo, and it is clumsy to get to the volume control off a Galaxy tab or other.

I can help by testing on a SE Arc if you like

Regarding connection to a phone (Android - Android) the nice thing if you have a total install of a tablet will be to connect this to your phone using the TABLET as BT handfree. I know it sounds the other way round ;-), maybee it could be done by making the tablet ackt as virtual SIM card for the phone I knoa that some handfree systems does this.

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Gizmodo reports this device to be $160: Archos 35 Home Connect
While its a 3.5" screen, the cost is low enough to be a potential entry-level carputer solution

i believe they are about to release a base 7" model as well for $100. any update on the progess??

And now also on Galaxy Tab