A friend wanted to know if he could use his android tablet as a headset, and after some searching it looks like quite a few people would like this.
So I was sondering if this is possible, I am new to Android development and I have been playing around with the Bluetooth samples and cannot seem to figure out how to make other devices see Android as a headset.
So my main question is- Is it possible to make a app that would disguise an android device as a headset so it could receive calls and maybe even dial number?
I would like to clarify that I am not asking anyone to make this program, I am just a curious developer that would like to know if this is even possible with the Android SDK
The main use if i make this app is for people who can't afford the data plan that is required when buying a smartphone from a carrier. So if this person has a small android MID they can pair it with their dumb phone and essentially use their MID as a phone.
I am searching for the same thing too. Any ideas?
im searching the same without luck!
yup, i brought this back from the dead because I'd love to have this work. I'm currently in a project to integrate my tablet in my car and having the tablet show up to the phone as a bluetooth handsfree/headset is quite literally the last piece of the puzzle for me.
If OEM headunits and nav units can do it (phonebook, dialing, texting, etc) then two android devices should be able to do it even easier. I cant believe no one figured this out yet honestly.
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I'm in the same boat. Planning to use an Acer Iconia a100 as my car stereo\sat nav\head unit. Until I find a way to have it seamlessly pair with my phone, I'm kinda stuck. Cheap 'ol Walmart head units will do it, but an Android tablets seems to be totally unable to function as a handsfree.
I'm unfamiliar with the bluetooth stack, but I'm thinking that the software is altered to work with specific hardware, so a universal app to enable a tablet to act as a handsfree unit might not be a simple matter. If anyone comes up with one, I'll pay for it gladly. If there is a bounty out there, I'll pitch in on that, too.
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So there are a number of Android-based tablets on the horizon. These are presumably envisioned as intermediate devices to fill a niche between the smartphone and laptop, similar to the iPad. I'm not starting a thread to debate whether this niche exists, or the design of any specific device, but rather on how well Android and its apps can adapt to being used across multiple devices by the same user.
For me, when I try to envision a tablet in my life, I find it difficult to think of things that it could do but my phone (a Nexus One) can't. I think the point is a tablet doesn't really do new things, but it does them slightly better because of a larger screen. The thing is, I will likely want to switch back and forth between my phone and tablet depending on my real-world context, and I will generally want the state of those applications to stay in sync.
Take reading an ebook, for example. I will still want to read on my phone sometimes, when I just have a minute to spare and don't have the tablet with me, but when I sit down to a more lengthy reading session, I want the tablet to remember where I am in the book. This should be automatic. Similarly, any games I play should have my progress saved, and my bookmarks/history/etc should be synced too. The simple fact is, the additional value of a tablet seems so small, that if I have to put up another non-synced device in my life, it won't even be worth bothering. I'll just keep using the smaller screen of my phone.
Now, of course there are already things that DO sync. Email, calendar, contacts, etc. But those are distinct things with custom implementations specific to that type of data. Certainly every app developer could add a web service that syncs their app data, but why make everyone do that individually. Does anyone know of any plans to create a generalized Android app sync solution? (let me know if there's something out there and I missed it) This seems like something google would want to build at the OS level, but I haven't heard of anything like it.
Thoughts?
I just came across this post after running up against this problem in the real world. Just received my Notion Ink Adam and quickly started looking for a solution to sync things like my eBook placement and game save-state between my Nexus One and the tablet. Titanium Media Sync looked promising but as the product description indicates, it is only capable of one-way synchronization. This means you would have to manually run the sync task each time you started using one device or the other. Perhaps something that could be achieved with tasker and some scripting, but that's more management overhead than anyone would want.
I wish I was better at software development cause this is not a solution that could be tackled with the app inventor.
This is going to be a big shakeup for awhile... SugarSync, Dropbox, Bump, Hoccer, Titanium, Listables/BlueMuze (my apps), Amazon cloud sync, Google Books -- there are 100 solutions coming from different directions and for different puposes.
Then there will be video (which is even more insanely competitive) as everyone trys various DRM, cloud hosting and streaming. Then you have the carriers sitting in the middle putting data caps on stuff wondering if they can get a slice of the pie. Roku, SlingBox, Tivo, Boxee, TimeWarner, Viacom, NBC-Comcast, Verizion, Cablevision, ATT, Apple, --- SO MANY companies in this market.
This is partly why I created my apps, so that people could send data without the cloud sync ideology/methodology forced on them. But that's sort of tangential to the conversation, and specific for types of media as you said above.
Anyways, I think the competition will be good mostly. But we'll have to be careful to reward those who dont try to restrict usage arbitrarily. And be sure to punish those that stand in the way.
Also with regards to programming sync oneself, beware that it's one of those things that's deceptively simple sounding until you try and work out the actual code/details of how to do it.
We need this now more than ever!
Any new products out there that can help me synch my Captivate with my Color Nook?
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I find it difficult to think of things that it could do but my phone (a Nexus One) can't. Thoughts?
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I can't agree with you more. I came to the same conclusion when I was looking at tablets.
However there are certain things I don't use right now because my battery temp will exceed 103°F when I'm using them (music apps, navigation, etc.) Phone is overclocked to 844 MHz so that obviously plays into the battery life, but if I had a tablet I could use those apps on the tablet to conserve my phone battery; currently my phone battery won't last more than a day :^(
There's also the possibility that because tablets would be more powerful than my MyTouch 3G Slide that I could scale back my phone CPU and use certain things on the tablet.
I'm holding off on tablets right now, I want to see where they go with the capabilities first before I jump on board.
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You said "I'm holding off on tablets right now". If you want to get your feet wet on the cheap, pick up a Color Nook of Craigslist. I've bought 2 now for $170 each.
At that price, who cares where the tablet market goes. When something comes along you like better, buy it, and give the Color Nook to someone as a gift.
I'm pretty confident the community will make a tablet more than worth owning. Even without the source code the xoom has been pretty handy. But from the first day of ownership I was wondering why it wasn't built in to have the phone and tab sync up. Even something more basic like chrome to phone for the phone to tab would be nice.
Just thinking out loud mostly.
My favorite tab sync mod,
Grab Google voice and grooveIP and have texts and voice calls come to the tab at the same time as the phone.
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Great topic! As a developer and Droid X owner, I've been debating about getting a tablet, but my tablet would be an iPad so I can cross-platform develop.
Still, a very valid issue as to iPhone/iPad or Droid/Xoom synching. Haven't given it much thought, but the OP brings up some valid points.
If you have an e-book, grocery list manager and any other number of apps, *physical* synching would be a PITA in my opinion. I think some cloud-based solution like DropBox would be the best solution.
How this gets implemented is surely open to debate.
I haven't tried it yet but there's an app on the market called SyncIt Beta:
https://market.android.com/details?id=jug6ernaut.net.syncit
It's supposed to be able to sync your app data across multiple devices.
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I am sorry for bringing back a dead thread, however this is still something i am in looking for. I have a nexus S and a toshiba thrive tablet. As opposed to cloud based or something along those apps, i think an even easier solutions would be a device direct streaming type service so to speak. Have the devices communicate directly with each other over wifi or bluetooth. I mean to be perfectly honest, if i use it on the road, my phone is with me anyway so bluetooth is perfectly acceptable. and when i am at home, both are connected to wifi even if they aren't close enough for bluetooth. That would remedy the need of a cloud based service, and the issue of data privacy. As long as the data gets synced locally to the device, i should be able to break the sync and still continue to operate, then when the 2 devices are reconnected to each other they can just update the changes. I am not a developer, so i apologize if these requests seem monumental. However i was going to make the change to webOS because it natively had support for these features, which were immensely helpful. Until webOS sort of fell off the grid obviously (even though it was never really on it to begin with)
Try "Tablet Talk" the paid app is really worth it, it allows users to communicate from tablet to phones.
It's well worth the money
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I came across this thread while searching for a solution to my problem. Thought it appropriate to post here.
Does anyone know of any virtual assistant apps or anything of that sort that will sync with other versions of the app on other devices?
For example, I have two android devices. I want to be able to talk to one and set a reminder at the house, and have the reminder come to a different device i have on me elsewhere.
So far the only way I can come up with to do this is to set a reminder through Google Calendar but was wondering if there was any other less clunky alternatives.
So I have a note ii and a precedent. Here is a list of things id like to do
Sync my note ii audio a2dp out to play ober the precedent
Sync alert and alarm awnsers n dismissals across devices as well as read emails
Power off device remotley [power on?]
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Greetings
I have a few perhaps off-the-wall questions (though maybe not, I don't know).
First off, I am an iPhone user (currently), but prior to my 3GS I did have an original Moto Droid (switched carriers so my wife could get an iPhone). My next upgrade (and hers) is coming up. I know she wants a new iPhone so she and the kids can Facetime with her mother. There are other programs that can do the same thing, but her mother is not tech-inclined so Facetime is the best option for her. Me, on the other hand...I'm not sure yet.
I remember back then that there was at least 1 program that let me sync to the Droid using iTunes, though it didn't work very well. Can anyone tell me the name of the program and does it work better now? Drag and Drop is always an option, but if iTunes is open, it might be easier.
The second question is a bigger one. Currently I plug my iPhone into a usb cable running from my car CD Player which both charges the phone and plays whatever I'm listening through directly through the stereo in the car. Is this something that I can readily adapt to Android? I would prefer not having to buy extra cables or anything like that to get the same functionality.
That brings me to my last question. During my commute (1 hr each way, 5 days a week) I mostly listen to audiobooks. All but one of these I have created myself by taking a book in mp3 format, converting it to m4a using iTunes, then changing the extension to m4b. This works perfectly. They show up in the audiobook section and until recently (5.0 update, I think) I could stop an audiobook, listen to actual music, then continue the audiobook right where I left off. That could be more related to the book being marked as listened to, though.
Does Android have an audio player that will play these books in this format? I don't want to reconvert them, and I don't want to have multiple copies of the same book taking up space (not much, but still) on my file server. If Android does have this, does said player also play chaptered/possibly drm'd audiobooks purchased through iTunes/Audible?
These are questions I would really need answered before I made the leap back to Android. I love the platform, and am currently rediscovering that love with my Nook Tablet; but there are some things that I am unwilling to compromise on with a phone when I know there is an alternative out there that works the way I want it to.
Those are some of the longest questions I have read in a while...
My advice: spend time researching instead of writing novel-like questions.
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Those are some of the longest questions I have read in a while...
My advice: spend time researching instead of writing novel-like questions.
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Your post was totally unnecessary. The guy has legit concerns and he has every right come here and ask the experts.
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Those are some of the longest questions I have read in a while...
My advice: spend time researching instead of writing novel-like questions.
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While I appreciate your opinion, as the poster below you said: they are legit concerns.
Personally, I would rather read long but well thought out questions than a bunch of short questions that are answered quickly, but don't completely satisfy the anticipated or desired result.
I have been away from Android phones for some time now. Like any computing technology, things change; and the longer you're away the more things are different than when you left.
I have researched, but haven't found answers that completely satisfy what I'm looking for. That's why I asked the questions I did.
Apparently Mortplayer has an Audiobook version that is supposed to work, though I have no idea if it will. I haven't tried it.
And the answer to my usb playing question seems to be a resounding no. I would be forced to use 2 things: a usb charger and an aux input to the headphone jack. Not as all-in-one as I had hoped. Bummer.
I'm looking for an android programmer that could complete a project for me. It's an integral piece in a concept i'm developing.
The end product should mirror my droid razr phone on my asus transformer tablet. It would be similar to windows Remote Desktop or Go To My PC, but would work between 2 android devices.
Based on my nube experience in this, it seems I would need someone who can create 2 apps.
1. A server app (pitcher)
2. A client app (catcher)
I'm sure there are 1000's of ways to do this, I just need a creative programmer.
Of course this would be a negotiated paying job.
We could drop to emails to discuss the particulars.
I agree with others that the future of car stereo is a large touchscreen mounted in the dash. The android tablet is the perfect platform until auto makers catch on (even then, theirs would limit your display). This project would mirror my phone on the asus transformer tablet i just installed in my dash. The tablet can do it all except make phone calls. My phone can make calls. By mirroring my phone on the tablet, it would remove that deficiency in the transformer.
Please let me know what you think.
Chum
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I'm looking for an android programmer that could complete a project for me. It's an integral piece in a concept i'm developing.
The end product should mirror my droid razr phone on my asus transformer tablet. It would be similar to windows Remote Desktop or Go To My PC, but would work between 2 android devices.
Based on my nube experience in this, it seems I would need someone who can create 2 apps.
1. A server app (pitcher)
2. A client app (catcher)
I'm sure there are 1000's of ways to do this, I just need a creative programmer.
Of course this would be a negotiated paying job.
We could drop to emails to discuss the particulars.
I agree with others that the future of car stereo is a large touchscreen mounted in the dash. The android tablet is the perfect platform until auto makers catch on (even then, theirs would limit your display). This project would mirror my phone on the asus transformer tablet i just installed in my dash. The tablet can do it all except make phone calls. My phone can make calls. By mirroring my phone on the tablet, it would remove that deficiency in the transformer.
Please let me know what you think.
Chum
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Chum, I know you posted this a while ago, but were you ever able to get anybody on board with this? I've been searching for a potential solution to do this and for the exact reasons you had mentioned.
No takers.
I am no longer looking for a programmer.
wish the moderators would delete this thread.
I have purchased a HICES Android Car/DVD unit for my Camaro. Being on that forum, which I won't mention, has helped a lot with some of the fitment issues we (maybe about a half dozen of us have purchased from word of thread). The company actually sells many different unit for different vehicles. We have been in direct contact with the representative of the company and he has quickly (within 2 months) corrected the fitment issues so this unit should now literally be plug and play.
Earlier versions were 2.3.4 and he has now upgraded newer units to 4.0.3 and upgraded us who purchased prior to the upgrade. Customer service wise he has been great. Also, since I had to download the upgrade, I know have those files saved to a MicroSD.
I have searched these forums for HICES, etc. however all I seem to pull up are the other Chinese branded units. There is one issue with this unit which I was hoping someone on here might actually have a suggestion. Is it possible that in the hardware for a "tablet" there is no microphone? These units only lack a way to communicate through BT. In doing the upgrade to 4.0.3 it has lost its ability to communicate through BT using the dongle provided. In the Camaro the bluetooth mechanism is located in the stock headunit, which obviously causes a problem when you remove it to replace it with this.
Because of the communication with the company rep our best bet may be to stick with letting them get this figured out, but I was hoping someone on here may have one and just not posted about it. I would really like to see what this is capable of.
Sorry I can't post outside links, but searching Google for HICES Android will pull up the website.
When I am allowed, I will post the website to the forum where there are more pictures and video of the unit, it just comes down to none of us being knowledgeable with android.
Thanks for any support
Brian
Somebody here suggested that the HICES Deckless head unit is based on the AN-21u. There's a hardware hacking thread here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2610926)
Some people have added an external hardware microphone, but nobody has checked AFAIK that they board is the same. Maybe you'd be willing to remove your unit and open it up. The thread I linked above shows what you'd need to look for.
I've been trying to get this device how I wanted it to be ever since I beta tested it, but due to life, law school, and marriage, I have been noticeably absent from the dev community lately. For that I apologize.
As I am concluding my legal studies, I have began revisiting some of my old broken-ish but bootable code from my Lollipop build, and am considering, if enough people are still using this thing, to try and build Nougat.
The chipset is identical to the Galaxy Nexus, as I am sure most people know at this point, and wollac has did one helluva job putting in the work to form a solid base to build upon. Admittedly, this is going to be a moderately-difficult project, bordering on a labor of nostalgia, but if there is enough interest, I will get to work so we can keep using this obsolete bowling ball for another year or two. I still use the KitKat build as an amp and NES emulator.
Let me know what you guys think.
-JM
I'm definitely interested, I would love to be able to use my Q with the original LED functionality
+1 on the LED functionality, but I fear that there aren't many in circulation anymore... Mine is gathering dust underneath the TV, a chromecast does its intended functionality much better :/
I just bought one, and I'm not sure how I can even use it at this point. Are you still considering development of something for the q?
I still have mine literally sitting there until something comes along. I would welcome any development on the Q!
I'll echo the others... I have mine sitting the corner of my office, under the printer waiting and hoping for it to be usable one day. I unfortunately bought mine right after they pulled the plug, not know about it so it has never actually worked! I really just hope to be able see the LEDs and stream music to it, even if just through chromecast. I heard it had a great amp and I have some old quality speakers laying around somewhere.
I'm interested as well. I'd love to be able to use it as a chromecast audio, or something similar. Personally, I'd prefer to be able to use it without a display.
does anyone know how to get the Nexus Q software? Got one without the manuals or software
I am interested. What would be the goal though?
There has to be a limited amount of these in existence and it would be neat to be able to use it for something useful.
Is a Chromecast type device reasonable? I'd use it in my office just as a novelty.
I would love something newer than the 4.4 build on this forum currently, and get some use out of this dustcollector. Personally i would like to just get the amp working, any other functionality I really dont care too much about.
Anything Lollipop or better would be great. I use the Google ADT-1 with stock Lollipop and really like it. Works fine for me. Maybe Kit Kat could be OK but I'm not sure.
I am interested. How do I get started?
I'll give this a +1
I still got mine and been thinking what to do with it... any new development i wouldnt mind trying.
I am interested in the restart as well
I have two and would love to use them.
Hi. I interested in Android 7. Youtube and youtube Music still working on Android 7, so i can build media-center on Q with android 6+.