PSX Remote for Android devices

[torrence]

When PSX Remote was first being discussed a couple of years ago I was interested, but didn't have an iPad.  While browsing latest add-on's in the aerowinx site, I noticed that a version of Remote for Android devices was available.  I've got a Kindle Fire HD7 and thought I'd try it since it's a convenient size to sit next to my main computer.  The documentation noted that the program was originally done for 10 inch tablets and might not work for smaller devices but thought I'd try it anyway.  Downloaded v0.4 and was quite surprised when it more or less worked pretty well.  It connects to PSX fine and mirrored text and lights show up OK and respond to button pushes on the computer running PSX fine.  The problem is that it doesn't display Hoppie's CDU image on the Kindle touch screen to drop the text and lights onto.  Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Torrence

[Kockie69]

It has been a long time I checked the code and did this project to get a bit of knowledge about android development. Haven't done anything with it since.
I am a but surprised of the bug you described and don't really understand why this is happening. Normally this is the thing that always works (just showing a static picture, resized cording to the device size). I will install my development environment again and see if I can reproduce. I will give you an update asap.

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Unrelated but may be interesting to know: in the mean time I have developed (together with a colleague at work) a 100% browser-based MCDU. No app, no nothing on the tablet/phone -- just the native browser it comes with. Apple or Android, as long as it has a browser. The thing works over our (pro) aircraft WiFi link and aircraft interface device and sits logically on top of the pilot's MCDU on the flight deck. As in, copy out and copy in. Yes.

Of course this isn't going to fly commercially any time soon (ha!) but it already proved exceptionally handy in the Boeing lab... all techs ran with it to do their stuff in a quiet corner instead of crowding the flight deck bench. :-)

It isn't doable without pulling four wires out of a panel and inserting the AID in between, so don't fear hostile takeovers in flight. But it was very interesting to see people's responses when casually handing them an iPad and then waiting until they discover it was live on the aircraft (in the lab).


Hoppie

[torrence]

Thanks for looking into it.  I know nothing about app development and just followed the setup information in the word file.  However I noticed in the Overview that 7 inch devices were a problem at that time due to lower resolution compared to the 10" tablets and the later versions were trying to address that.  The Fire 7HD is a later generation and has HD resolution.  Since the text seems to look correct on the screen, is it possible that my problem is related to the scale-able CDU image that is presumably packaged in the v0.4 app not displaying correctly for this size/resolution combination?

Cheers,
Torrence

Edit - Oh - I should have also mentioned that just estimating where the keys should be compared to the text on the Kindle and pushing the touch screen seems to work - that is, it changes the text display properly - so that part of the scaling also looks like it is OK
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