TA.ndroid

[nrv]

I've just released the first version of TA.ndroid. It's a small lobby client running on Android smartphone. It's designed to monitor your friends and notify you when they are online.

Everything is here http://code.google.com/p/ta-ndroid/

Let me know if you find any bug.

I plan to seriously improve the user interface and add new functionnalities in the next weeks.

[MidKnight]

We need more of these kinds of things. It helps publicity
Keep at it!

[Beherith]

Absolutely AWESOME!

This was the final push in making me get a new phone. Nrv, do you have any suggestions for a middle class Android phone?

[hoijui]

:D cool

could you possibly post screen-shots somewhere?

[nrv]

http://code.google.com/p/ta-ndroid/wiki/QuickStart

[very_bad_soldier]

Great stuff!
But since the spring project tries to get away from TA maybe a name change may be appropriate.

[BrainDamage]

any chance you'd make it compatible with android 1.6?

[hoijui]

looking at some of the code, it looks like it is even compatible with Java 1.1.

[BrainDamage]

well, doesn't install on my cell phone which runs android 1.6 with a very uninformative generic error message: "unable to install"
and that install guide only mentions 2.1

[nrv]

I put a new version, try it and let me know if it works.

[Forboding Angel]

Great stuff!
But since the spring project tries to get away from TA maybe a name change may be appropriate.

+1

And damn fine work nrv! Looks like i might need to buy a new phone ahead of schedule

[BrainDamage]

version 4 works on my 1.6 now, thanks

another suggestion: your default lobby url is "taspringmaster.clan-sy.com", that's the legacy url and might disappear in the future, the right url would be "springrts.com"

[Forboding Angel]

I have an EVO 4G , so I installed this app, but there is no way to chat or anything, it just shows that people are online and stuff. Is chat going to be added in the future?

[nrv]

Yes, as soon as I find some time to work on it :)

[liamdawe]

Hah that's brilliant mate, good work, i have an android phone luckily :D

[Floris]

Whooohoo sweet! After you finish this the next big thing to make is to be able to spectate a game displaying a minimap.

I've been dreaming about spring running in some kind of way on the android platform. Would love to see what phone cpu/gpu really can handle when it comes to.... things like spring

How hard would it be to port the basic necessary functions/code to openGL ES 2.0 and to run it on ARM cpu's? (just the minimap)

[aegis]

you need a fully syncing client (that means running ALL calculations) to display the minimap dots accurately.

[very_bad_soldier]

You could setup some sort of proxy client for androids that performs the calculations and only transmits minimap info to the androids. Like the non-existing minimap widget Btw what happened to your luasockets efforts aegis?

[BaNa]

how much extra code would it be to have the host send a minimap update every couple of seconds? that way you could take a look at current minimap for all games and join interesting looking ones only. Or watch game via the android client.

[aegis]

hmm, I think I had a luasockets proxy through lualobby, not sure what the status on it is... was actually so I could use an ipad as a minimap but I got busy with other things