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Bluetooth or wifi control for presentation

Hi, i do presentation always.
And it is very common to see anyone using a remote presenter to control or a wireless mouse.
Is there a software with big buttons for me to tab on my ATOM PURE 0.7.7 and remote to the desktop with bluetooth or wifi and do control.
Big buttons pre-blinded or personally blinded to make the presentation work. Like a button on Space, left click, right click, alt+tab for me to do presentation.
Anyone have any idea?
Which is better Bluetooth or Wifi?

Salling Clicker is the tool you need.
It is specially made to give presentations, you can use it with Bluetooth or Wifi, but Bluetooth is of course much better, since it consums much much less energy than wifi.
btw, Salling Clicker enables some other nice functions too, like controlling your computer/mouse/media player/itunes/etc...

congkai said:
Hi, i do presentation always.
And it is very common to see anyone using a remote presenter to control or a wireless mouse.
Is there a software with big buttons for me to tab on my ATOM PURE 0.7.7 and remote to the desktop with bluetooth or wifi and do control.
Big buttons pre-blinded or personally blinded to make the presentation work. Like a button on Space, left click, right click, alt+tab for me to do presentation.
Anyone have any idea?
Which is better Bluetooth or Wifi?
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In the Windows Mobile world, rule of thumb number one: ALWAYS follow my articles. If you have a specific question, do a forum search, making sure you restrict the search for my articles.
There are several tools that fulfill your needs; see my Remote Media Control Bible ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=294524 ) for a complete roundup.

Menneisyys said:
In the Windows Mobile world, rule of thumb number one: ALWAYS follow my articles. If you have a specific question, do a forum search, making sure you restrict the search for my articles.
There are several tools that fulfill your needs; see my Remote Media Control Bible ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=294524 ) for a complete roundup.
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maybe you should update your review....Salling Clicker has changed a lot lately! (v3.5)
much very nice support for pda's with phone functionallity has been added, besides the new functionality for slides and media player support

VOODOOS!L said:
maybe you should update your review....Salling Clicker has changed a lot lately! (v3.5)
much very nice support for pda's with phone functionallity has been added, besides the new functionality for slides and media player support
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Thanks, I'll post an update.

[Q] Android Keyboard with Alt key?

Is there a way of submitting Alt commands via an Android keyboard to my windows PC?
I presently use Air Mouse on an Ipod Touch to control my HTPC remotely.
This is the only use I have for the thing and I'd like to think that there will be the perfect Android solution for me soon.
The benefit of Air Mouse over RemoteDroid and GMote is the Alt key ability which neither of the Android apps have (or if they have I haven't found it yet), a function I find a lot of use for.
(I should add that the only Android device I have at present is an HTC Desire....so I guess that could be the limitation rather than the apps)

I don't really understand what you mean by alt key ability. Could you please explain, and maybe we can help sugest a solution?
What is it that this alt key ability of air mouse do, or more importantly, what is it that you want to accomplish with such an alt key ability?

Thanks for the reply, I had a feeling I wasn't being very clear.
I'd like to use my Android device as a trackpad and mouse for my HTPC.
My media player of choice (MPC-HC) uses a lot of keyboard shortcuts with the "Alt" signifier. For example Alt+X closes the program. These shortcuts are especially important because the program runs in a fullscreen mode which removes any context menus.
All the various android soft keyboards I have seen have no Alt key so I would lose a lot of functionality controlling the HTPC from an android device.
I have read that pressing the trackball twice on an HTC Desire may be a substitute for pressing the "Alt" key but have never got this to work in practice.

Just found an app that might suit your needs. I suggest you check it out.
GRemote Pro
Edit:
Ok, I just tried this app out, and it does exactly what you need.
It comes packed with an app alt, ctrl, tab and del buttons that let you alt+tab among other things.
I didn't see MPC-HC in the server setup, but that's not a problem as you can configure your own profiles with specific commands.
Fair warning, it's a bit on the slow side (seems to be a port of a winmo app), but I'm sure it'll get better with time and updates. It's a very polished Remote app for android and it even comes with drivers for a G-sensor controller to play games with (use android as wii-mote/controller).
This app defenitly rocks.

You sir (or madam) are a legend.
I was disappointed at first to see that this app doesn't simply add Alt and Ctrl keys to the standard keyboard, but it does allow considerable control of the media player directly.
Need to have a much longer play to see if it's really what I need...but I appreciate your effort already.

Another Suggestion
Have you tried unified remote?
It's got a full windows keyboard, You can create your own custom remotes and if you wanted, you could even have multiple droids connected.
Yes, this reply is s bit late, but better late than never

try Hackers Keyboard

I installed hackers keyboard and tried to activate it. It gives a prompt message that this will collect all information except passwords, including personal data and credit card numbers....!!!

Stay away from AnDOSBox

As I'm sure many of you are aware, people posting pirated apps the Android market has been a problem, but with in that problem is people posting GPL based applications, but refusing to comply with the terms of the the GPL. I've recently discovered that AnDOSBox, based on the DOSBox open source project, is one of those. It's not "convenient" for them to comply at this time. As an open source developer myself (but not of DOSBox itself, so I unfortunately can't file the DMCA violation request with Google), I hate to see people ripping off open source software and blatantly violating the license. Please do not buy AnDOSBox from the market.

OK, I'll have to get it by alternative means then!

hehe, I agree.
I just found this while I am publishing aDosBox 0.2beta.
It even uses a similar icon(or almost the same with aDosBox)

greatht said:
hehe, I agree.
I just found this while I am publishing aDosBox 0.2beta.
It even uses a similar icon(or almost the same with aDosBox)
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You are one of the devs on aDosBox??? Congrats on the new release! A really long wait... but worth it

And for those who don't know... aDosBox is heaps better than this AnDosBox... try it out on the Market!!!! I give it a 5 star rating!

erlern said:
aDosBox is heaps better than this AnDosBox...
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uh, it's like you've just said - i didn't try andosbox... because its really way better than all other dosbox ports for android. i tried adosbox today to see if it improved, but it's still no comparision to andosbox - it's not even half as smooth.
erlern said:
It even uses a similar icon(or almost the same with aDosBox)
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lol that's quite funny, because adosbox just uses the original logo of adosbox, and andosbox is just slightly different - and you're accusing him of something? LOL

wujekandrzej said:
uh, it's like you've just said - i didn't try andosbox... because its really way better than all other dosbox ports for android. i tried adosbox today to see if it improved, but it's still no comparision to andosbox - it's not even half as smooth.
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What games are you running on it? I have tried Airborne Ranger, Xenon 2, Magic Candle, Bard's Tale, Rogue, 2400AD, Altered Beast, Tyrian 2000, Ultima 4 and 5, Dune and none of them have any lag in them. I tried Andosbox and don't think that I'll support it at that price.
I'm using a snapdragon device btw.

Really hope aDosbox gets more releases out. Hope I could contribute somehow, but I have no clue how the software is being developed.
I tried adosbox recently after finding out that Raptor was available for the Apple Store.
aDosBox runs raptor too, but for my device it doesn't work that great yet. I still have hope.
Meanwhile, I found out that even though the developer of aNdosbox is charging 4 bucks, since it's under the GPL, people who paid for it are free to redistribute it. There is a 1.0.1 version hovering around on the net. If you can't find the link then let me know. But, andosbox can't even run some of the stuff adosbox does.

wujekandrzej said:
uh, it's like you've just said - i didn't try andosbox... because its really way better than all other dosbox ports for android. i tried adosbox today to see if it improved, but it's still no comparision to andosbox - it's not even half as smooth.
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hm..... Can't understand here. Which one had you really tried?
wujekandrzej said:
lol that's quite funny, because adosbox just uses the original logo of adosbox, and andosbox is just slightly different - and you're accusing him of something? LOL
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Let me clarify what I was talking about:
aDosBox 0.1 alpha was published in Feb 2010 and its logo is a combination of DosBox icon and Android robot icon. (just google aDosBox)
If you compare it with anDosBox icon, you will understand what I want to deliver.
PS: aDosBox is a hobby, not a product and it will never be. All credits belong to DosBox's author and the person who ported SDL to android platform(i.e. Pelya).
Everyone who wants to contribute and make dosbox run better on our android devices is welcomed to join us.

They do provide the source now, though you have to prove that you've got the binaries from them (which seems to be fine per GPL - they only have to provide sources to people they distribute the binaries to, and not just everyone; though of course others should be able to share once they get sources for themselves).

greatht said:
hm..... Can't understand here. Which one had you really tried?
Let me clarify what I was talking about:
aDosBox 0.1 alpha was published in Feb 2010 and its logo is a combination of DosBox icon and Android robot icon. (just google aDosBox)
If you compare it with anDosBox icon, you will understand what I want to deliver.
PS: aDosBox is a hobby, not a product and it will never be. All credits belong to DosBox's author and the person who ported SDL to android platform(i.e. Pelya).
Everyone who wants to contribute and make dosbox run better on our android devices is welcomed to join us.
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Thanks for the minor updates over the last week. If I may suggest something, I find that it is a bit hard to see what I type on the screen because the virtual keyboard opens up and covers most of the screen, is it possible to show just the command prompt line above the virtual keyboard instead of having to hide and re-open the virtual keyboard to see whether input is correctly made? Thanks a lot.

Much work has been put into AnDosBox, and it is the best DosBox emulator by far at the moment. It has games working better on the Android than I could make them run on any of my PCs, which is quite a feat.
Its mouse control is really great. The only way to do a mouse control on a touch phone without having a bluetooth mouse and tv-out of some kind.
I really did not think the old dos games could run that well on an Android phone (mine is Samsung Galaxy S), but I do hope that others manages to make emulators run better as well, so we might see emulators with a better kind of Joystick support. Although the kind he has implemented is in the direction of what I would want to do for a onscreen joystick. Being able to just place your thump anywhere, and move up, down, left or right.
But it would probably be easier with a on screen firebutton as well, which is seems to lack. And being able to not have the joystick area in the middle of the Screen.
The Pelya stuff in aDosBox is nice, and it is probably able to run some games that AnDosBox cannot. But so far most games seems to run in AnDosBox better than I would have anticipated.
And they are finally sharing the source. I will try to ask him for it myself.

greatht said:
hehe, I agree.
I just found this while I am publishing aDosBox 0.2beta.
It even uses a similar icon(or almost the same with aDosBox)
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I finally got to test aDosBox properly. For some reason I only got the SDL options to work with the menu button at first, and it sure helps being able to see the keyboard, quit button and all that. Since I cannot write anything in the developer section yet, I will post some feedback here:
Mouse support, I cannot get it to work at all. I have found that andosbox has a good mouse support, while adosbox has a good joystick / arrowkeys support. I am guessing I might be able to get the mouse to work if I make the Joystick control the mouse, but what I have come to find as the best method of controlling the mouse in games using a real mouse, is using the screen as a touch pad. But it seems a problem with Pelya to make that work properly.
Also an option to hide the on screen controls while they are still active would be nice.
Mouse calibration, that part might be the reason why the mouse does not work at all for me, but when going into it, I cannot select the screen. I can touch the 4 corners and it just goes into the Menu when I press menu after.
http://anddev.at.ua/load/emulators/dosbox_0_74/2-1-0-12
This one seems to show how that was meant to work, but I never really found a good way to make it work. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S, so the bottom right corner goes into my menu key. Top right goes into the back key. The DoxBox for Android I just linked has attempted to make the keymapper available on the menu key, which seems to be rather fail, since at most settings it is impossible to get out off again. Your menu seems to work much better, but after going into the SDL settings it seems to be lost, and only the SDL is on the menu key.
I am looking into Android development myself, I hope I can help some day, but I am still only just learning my way around the SDL and making some tutorial apps to get started. Good luck with the aDosBox project though.

They denied my request for the source code because I refunded the app. Sigh.

This may be the wrong area to ask, but in using aDosBox I'm having trouble starting the keymapper since my android on-screen keyboard obviously doesn't have "ctrl" or F-keys. How are the rest of you mapping keys for playing games? I have an Xperia Play running 2.3.3. With the stock settings but checking the box for having "Arrows/joystick/dpad" I can get the directional buttons to work, but can't map the triangle/square/x/o buttons to what I need for Commander Keen 4. Any help?

I have a droid incredible.
That said I tried adosbox and it works, but pretty slow.
I looked up many reviews and finally broke down and bought andosbox. (15 min refund if you don't like it made the deal sweet)
I have to say for the games i have played andosbox is 200% better, smoother more polished system. I been playing masters of orion 2 and anvil of dawn. Well, no lag on andosbox and while they are playable on adosbox, the difference is worth the 4 bucks.
So you get what you pay for in this instance. I like both programs and sdl is only currently supported by adosbox so it has that going for it as well.
So thanks for creating these awesome ports. I do recommend using adosbox to see how it runs on your phone before getting andosbox. Just i find i like the tilt and menus in andosbox better (plus default speed boost)
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Also to respond to the game pad question, you can get a blue tooth joystick. or look on the net / market for gamepad keyboards. or on screen game pads. loconet sells one but i bet there are free ones as well.
I have the htc droid incredible so hid bluetooth is not working, but there are some joysticks out there that still work.
If you want alternate onscreen buttons. You will have to find one in the market.
Basicly you change your default keyboard to replace it with one that has the inputs you need.

If anybody is looking for the source...
hxxps://sites.google.com/site/andosbox/system/app/pages/recentChanges
(1.1.8 -> hxxps://sites.google.com/site/andosbox/AnDosBox_1.1.8.rar?attredirects=0)
Have fun

Can you post the sources to the 1.1.9 version?
I posted the apk here, and even though it's GPL'ed software, my post was removed and I received an infraction from XDA.
BTW, it seems the reason that AnDosBox runs faster than aDosBox is because AnDosBox has a permanent framedrop hardcoded. Can someone try 1-3 framedrop on aDosBox and compare? I suspect the speed would be identical!

Try to build adosbox with Eclipse
This is what I done
svn checkout source trunk (adosbox source code from google code)
download Eclipse
build adosbox with Eclipse
build and install successfully on emulator/mobile.
BUT when I execute it Shows error message unfortunately adosbox has stopped.
also 0 errors but contains 2 warning , some yellow exclamation sign in MainActivity.java
Please help!!!!!!!!!!
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
if (requestCode == SELECT_CONFIG) {
Uri selectedImageUri = data.getData();
}
}
}
}
shows warning : The value of the local variable selectedImageUri is not used MainActivity.java /adosbox/src/org/hystudio/android/dosbox line 215 Java Problem

Hi, I apologize if I'm posting this in the wrong area. How do you bring up the in-app menu on the Samsung Galaxy S7? The menu (two squares) button tries to go to split-screen mode and the back button exits the app. Long-pressing either does not work. The Assistant Menu option (under Accessibility) does not work either. I can't even bring up the keyboard at the DOS prompt. Pressing the menu button worked on the S4 and long-pressing it worked on the S5, but no idea how to bring up the menu on the S7. Any ideas?? Thanks in advance!

[GAME][2.1+/3.1+] MAME4droid - MAME 0.37b5 port for Android

Hi... maybe this is no the correct site... but i have updated
iMAME4all site with the new iMAME4all Android port called MAME4droid
that I have been developing recently.
iOS iMAME4all is the best MAME mobile experience since iOS runs very
well iMAME. Android is very hard to deal with (performance) and till
Android 3.0 there is not HW 2D accelerated APIs.
Anyway... i think i have done a good job and with the correct HW...
MAME4droid is a very good experience.
Features:
Port of iMAME4all 1.9 for Android 2.1 and upper phone versions.
Native Support for Android honeycomb tablets.
Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) 2D Hardware Accelerated.
Autorotate. HW Keys remapping supported. Selectable hide/show touch
Controller. Smoothed image. Animated touch stick and more.
Some features still missing are: analog touch control, native wiimote (but you can use 3rd party apps on market) and overlays. The rest iOS features are
there.
I haven't published to market yet, as this is an early release and I'm waiting for comments and (hopefully very few) bug reports.
As a new user I'm not allowed to post links, so to download the apk, search for iMAME4all at google code site.
Maybe this is of interest to you or any of you friends.

I have a Acer Iconia A500 to test this with. Ill post my findings.
Link for others: http://code.google.com/p/imame4all/
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA Premium App

Thanks....let me know your findings.
I have published a b2...fixing a rotation bug...

Fantastic news. I tried it out and seems to be working great. Any possible chance to add support for wiimotes? I can't seem to get it to accept a key from it.

I am incorrect. It can work with wiimotes.
However, there is no way to change the the definition of keys for those of us without a physical keyboard.
Thanks a bunch for doing this work.

Fantastic work...had been hoping someone would pick this up.
Did some testing on my Galaxy 10.1 tab (Bonsai rom, 1.4gHz) and it went well with the few games I tried. On screen controls are a little sluggish but disabling the animated controls smoothed it out.
Please let me know if I can help with any testing. Will be watching this one closely.

So I have it loaded and it seems to run, but I have loaded several roms that are all on the list and all seem to fail. I get missing files for ever single one of the roms. Any clue as to why?

You mention that there isn't 2d hardware accel without honeycomb. Couldn't the 2d be drawn to a 3d layer? There are numerous hardware accelerated games on android 2.x

Yes I will do... But at first I wanted to do 2d engine, so buggy gles drivers were not a problem and supporting all kind of smartphones.
the 2d rendering is very good without filtering now...

how to make working roms? i tried several roms but without success..

Marcelo Henrique dos Sant said:
how to make working roms? i tried several roms but without success..
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same here. it seems that most of the roms are missing files in the zip... I have verified that the same issue also happens in the desktop version of the same build this is made from. So not many roms seem to be working and the rom checker program doesn't fix any of them or I just don't know how to work it.

Sadly that port is not usable for me simply because the onscreen controls dont seem to work right. The analog stick doesnt center unless I lift my finger off the screen. Dead zone on/off doesnt change that. Is this actually supposed to be that way or is it a bug.

I use this on the subway a lot and I was wondering if others would find it helpful to have a quick pause feature. Maybe touch the middle of the screen to pause/unpause.
Just wanted to make that suggestion.

I really like this Mame port, fast, good looking and compatable with many games !
I found a full working romsets in the usual places (just check for mame gp32 romset).
I usually play using a wiimote or a gamepad (android 3.2 is great for that!).
BTW is there an option to enable more buttons on the virtual joystick ? As I have 4 in portrait mode, but only 2 in landscape one.
Also, do you plan to add 2 players support in the input settings?
Thanks for your hard work ! It's so nice to play those good old games on Android.

Can the "Mahjong electron base" game run on Android SYS?
I have the game source of mame for PSP
how to change it to run the mahjong electron base game on Android SYS?!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1274215

running on galaxy s starts with buttons and a black screen. then android tells me app is not responding.

I ran this on my gtab 10.1 and it works GREAT!!! I use to use winmo and this is far better than any mame emulator i used there. Great work!!

Hello this is a good working emulator. But i was wondering if it is possible to change or create a conf file, to change the location of the roms folder.

Hi guys
As mame4droid will never support save state
i was thinking does anything know anyway of freeezing it i mean keep it running in the background, without having the android reset the emulators status after a while in the background
that way rather than save state we could resume it and open up from the background and resume our games that way(bit like the xperia play emulator resume method).
i've tried other mame emulators they support save state but dont support dip switches this is pointless as i always like upping the difficulty in my games. mame4droid allows this.
p.s i already tried freezing mame4droid with titanium backup,
no joy
after unfreezing the app resets itself and u lose your rom status.
any help is much appreciated.

iCade now works on most Android Games

iCade is the Mini-Arcade Cabinet with Bluetooth arcade Controls. I bought it to use with Mame games, which supports it directly. However, almost every other game didn't work with it.
Finally I found a solution via the app "GameKeyboard". It lets you map the icade controller and buttons so they emulate a normal Joystick or D-pad. It also let's you map the controller to games that only allow "on screen" touching, but I haven't played with that much yet.
Here's a videos showing my iCade working with ZenPinball HD, RipTide, and Reckless Getaway.
http://youtu.be/-8RBHLxasTo
Required:
- Rooted Android Device
- 'GameKeyboard' by locnet, configured properly (can be confusing without guidance)
- iCade cabinet/controller: Currently $60 on Amazon.
ps. If any interest is shown, i'll write up a doc on how to configure GameKeyboard for use with the iCade. It took some getting use to.
pss. Questions welcome..and I can test it on specific games if you want..if they have a free version.
psss. The support team at GameKeyboard really came through with adding iCade support for me within a day of the request, which is why I'm spreading the word.

really like it

ps. If any interest is shown, i'll write up a doc on how to configure GameKeyboard for use with the iCade. It took some getting use to.
pss. Questions welcome..and I can test it on specific games if you want..if they have a free version.
psss. The support team at GameKeyboard really came through with adding iCade support for me within a day of the request, which is why I'm spreading the word.
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Yes I am very interested

I got it working thrue bluezIME.apk. Dont know exactly what i did wrong before but whit this apk it worked en paired
https://code.google.com/p/android-bluez-ime/issues/detail?id=112

Keesjansma2 said:
I got it working thrue bluezIME.apk. Dont know exactly what i did wrong before but whit this apk it worked en paired
Hi everyone. Hoping to resurrect this thread. I picked up on ion Icade recently and I have a spare 10" tablet running Android 6.0 Marshmallow. If I read this thread correctly, it sounds like I can download the latest bluezIME.apk and get many of the Google Play games to work with the Icade via controller emulation? Would I need to jailbreak the tablet? Wondering if someone can confirm this for me.
Also, seems like at the very least Mame should work natively with the Icade, no special hacks or anything needed right?
Thanks!
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I know this is a quite old topic, but since I'm getting an iCade Core, I may assume the following:
1) BluezIME doesn't use root, but GameKeyboard by locnet does, according to sbliner.
2)MAME4All and MAME4droid does support the iCade, but I'm not really sure if you need BluezIME because of Android 6 or above.