Im trying to create a widget for Unified Remote that allows me to jump back or forward 5sec in MPC (In Media Player Classic, the shortcut keys are Arrow keys left and right). Unified Remote info shows there should be a remote titled MPC-BE when going into "Change Action > Remote Action" that has such shortcuts. But it's not I figured Id just try to use a shortcut key itself as an action, but there are no keyboard remotes listed either when going into "Change Action > Remote Action"
Does anyone know how can I allocate the computer keyboard keystroke "Right/Left Arrow" to a Unified Remote widget?
Also, does anyone know where the icons for Unified Remote (as in icons used for the widget buttons) are stored/installed? Can I add my own?
and lastly, does anyone know how to backup/save any information relating Unified Remote to copy over to another device?
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Hi all,
Have had my (Australian) Tab for almost 6 months and love it (even if I am an iPhone user atm). One annoyance was that Android doesn't seem to have an easy-to-use software control for music (like the multitasking bar in iOS). Sure, I could use lock-screen controls or home screen widgets, but then I have to leave my current app.
You can try using ButtonRemapper, but the Tab doesn't really have too many hardware buttons to go remapping. If you're looking for an easy way to control your media without headset controls and without leaving your current app, try this:
1. Download SwipePad Beta from the Market (its free!) and set it up with whatever hot zones you want.
2. Download Media Keys from the Market and install.
3. Now, hold on a shortcut in SwipePad (to edit it), select shortcuts and select Media Keys.
Now you can choose any of Android's media keys in whatever layout you want, all without leaving your current app.
I found it pretty handy as someone who doesn't own many headphones with headset controls.
Does anyone know where to find out all the shortcuts you can do with an external keyboard on Android 4.0? Things like the back button, home screen, etc. Thank.
Thread Necromancy, I know, but this is a serious question that remains unanswered. Here's the most info I've found:
Rootzwiki User Gr8gorilla posted a list of shortcuts that work with his Targus Bluetooth Keyboard (I'm editing the list for formatting, and adding more as I find them.)
ESC: Back (woo!)
Targus FN + F* keys: (edit: These only work with the specific model of Targus keyboard. Your FN key may only perform functions as labelled, test it to verify)
FN+F1: Search
FN+F8: play/pause music
FN+F7: Skip Prev
FN+F9: Skip Next
FN+F11: Volume -
FN+F12: Volume +
FN+ESC: Wallpaper, manage apps, system settings.
Alt+Tab - recent apps, task switcher (WOO!)
CTRL + Alpha keys:
Ctrl+A: Market (edit: this opens the "add to home screen" menu for me)
Ctrl+P: Settings
Ctrl+W: Wallpaper
Ctrl+M: Apps
In Browser: (edit: these work in other apps too, if they apply)
Ctrl+B: Bookmarks
Ctrl+A: Select all
Ctrl+C: Copy
Ctrl+V: Paste
Ctrl+W: Close current tab
Ctrl+T: Open new tab
Command/Windows button + : (edit: these commands work from anywhere, even in other apps)
Win+E: Launch Default Email App (brings up a choice dialog if necessary)
Win+A: Launch Calculator.apk
Win+S: Launch Messaging.apk (SMS App)
Win+C: Launch Contacts
Win+B: Launch Browser.apk (not your default browser, unfortunately)
Win+P: Launch Music.apk (not your default music player, unfortunately)
Win+L: Launch Calendar
Win+M: Launch Google Maps
From my own experience: the above work, other than the Targus-specific ones. I've tested them all. I'm looking for more, especially ways to activate "HOME", "MENU" and to open/close the notification drawer.
Also, you can edit your /system/usr/keylayout/qwerty.kl to change which key codes sent by the bluetooth keyboard activate various functions. This would be a rather involved hack, and may be specific to your hardware. Doing it wrong could compromise your ability to use your software keyboard. Also, it would be replaced whenever you flash a ROM, and possibly some smaller updates as well. Here's a guide to hacking keyboard layouts, though it's a bit old, and I haven't tested it. DO AT YOUR OWN RISK, but post your results either way!
I'm looking for a way to enable the Android SDK Emulator Shortcut Keys on real devices. It would give us that which we're missing.
Ctrl+W and Ctrl+T
In the stock browser:
Ctrl+W - closes the current tab
Ctrl+T - opens a new tab
There may be more of these that are similar to chrome shortcuts but those are the only two I really use.
erupe said:
In the stock browser:
Ctrl+W - closes the current tab
Ctrl+T - opens a new tab
There may be more of these that are similar to chrome shortcuts but those are the only two I really use.
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Tested to verify. Works in Chrome as well. Added to the list above!
Thanks for coming up with that list. Really appreciate it.
I'd just like to clarify something: using an app called KeyEvent Display, free on Google Play, you can verify that Android is actually receiving keystrokes from your keyboard. I've tested every key on my keyboard, and found that they correspond exactly with /system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl (fn key excluded, because that's handled by the keyboard itself, not passed to the OS).
I think the Android Framework doesn't know what to do with:
F-Keys
Mute
wow nice one.
I'd like to point everyone's attention to the newest addition in my suite of Android remote desktop applications. The first two being bVNC and aRDP, which as the name implies are a VNC viewer and an RDP client. The new app is called aSPICE, and yes, you guessed it, it's the FIRST SPICE protocol client on Google Play.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iiordanov.aSPICE
The current list of features:
- Control any SPICE-enabled qemu virtrual machine with ANY guest OS.
- Multi-touch control over the remote mouse. One finger tap left-clicks, two-finger tap right-clicks, and three-finger tap middle-clicks
- Right and middle-dragging if you don't lift the first finger that tapped
- Scrolling with a two-finger drag
- Pinch-zooming
- Dynamic resolution changes, allowing you to reconfigure your desktop while connected, and control over virtual machines from BIOS to OS
- Full rotation support. Use the central lock rotation on your device to disable rotation
- Multi-language support
- Full mouse support on Android 4.0+
- Full desktop visibility even with soft keyboard extended
- SSH tunneling for added security or to reach machines behind a firewall.
- UI Optimizations for different screen sizes (for tablets and smartphones)
- Samsung multi-window support
- SSH public/private (pubkey) support
- Importing encrypted/unencrypted RSA keys in PEM format, unencrypted DSA keys in PKCS#8 format
- Automatic connection session saving
- Zoomable, Fit to Screen, and One to One scaling modes
- Two Direct, one Simulated Touchpad, and one Single-handed input modes
- Long-tap to get a choice of clicks, drag modes, scroll, and zoom in single-handed input mode
- Stowable on-screen Ctrl/Alt/Tab/Super and arrow keys
- Sending ESC key using the "Back" button of your device
- Ability to use D-pad for arrows, and to rotate D-pad for some bluetooth keyboards
- Minimum zoom fits screen, and snaps to 1:1 while zooming
- FlexT9 and hardware keyboard support
- Available on-device help on creating a new connection in the Menu when setting up connections
- Available on-device help on available input modes in the Menu when connected
- Tested with Hackerskeyboard. Using it is recommended (get hackers keyboard from Google Play).
- Import/Export of settings
Planned features:
- Clipboard integration for copy/pasting from your device
- Audio support
The app's UI is GPL licensed open source:
https://github.com/iiordanov/bVNC
It's backend is LGPL licensed spice-gtk, and I'm currently working on open-sourcing the library and my "glue". It needs to become a whole lot prettier to be open-sourced.
This experimental input method for Android TV devices includes both a control mapper and a variety of options for text entry.
Jump to the latest release.
Control Mapper:
Remap buttons
Use buttons as hotkeys to quickly launch favorite apps
Switch your Sony Touchpad Remote to/from mouse pointer mode (Sony Bravia only)
Create several control mapper profiles and assign each app to the appropriate profile
Keyboard:
On-screen keyboard
T9 style entry with a TV remote with number and color keys
Dictate the contents of any text field using your remote with onboard microphone
Note: This means voice search will not be summoned when a text field has focus.
Notes:
Motion controls (e.g. analog sticks) cannot yet be remapped. An extremely limited form of this functionality is expected to eventually be released for all users. Full support will require the app to be signed with the platform key.
It might be possible to remap your controls in such a way that you have difficulty using your TV. Don't do that.
v2016.09.17
* Can now intercept the GUIDE key on Sony Bravia TV's
* Vendor-neutral improvements in the dispatch of special keys. Because CMAK cannot intercept most of these keys, you will generally have to choose them from the list instead of recording them.
* When choosing a key to dispatch from the list, CMAK will now detect special keys that are relevant to your TV and list them above everything else. This should dramatically reduce the need to scroll the list and reduce the amount of guessing necessary when special keys have terrible names.
For the benefit of anyone else who has a Sony Bravia, these are the special keys on my TV:
3D_MODE
Does not correspond to any key on my remote, but displays the "3D Mode" configuration dialog.
BUTTON_1
The DISCOVER button on my remote.
BUTTON_2
The ACTION MENU button on my remote.
BUTTON_3
The SYNC MENU button on my remote.
BUTTON_4
The NETFLIX button on my remote. It is suggested that if you want to map a key to Netflix, that you use an app shortcut instead.
BUTTON_5
Has no apparent function on my TV.
BUTTON_6
Does not correspond to any key on my remote, but opens the "Playstation Now" app. It is suggested that you if you want to map a key to Playstation Now, that you use an app shortcut instead.
BUTTON_7
Has no apparent function on my TV.
BUTTON_8
Does not correspond to any key on my remote, but opens the "Google Play Movies" app. It is suggested that you if you want to map a key to Google Play Movies, that you use an app shortcut instead.
BUTTON_15
BUTTON_16
These have no apparent function on my TV.
GUIDE
The GUIDE button on my remote. CMAK can also intercept this button and remap it.
HELP
The HELP button on my remote.
TV
The TV button on my remote.
TV_CONTENTS_MENU
Does not correspond to any key on my remote, but opens a dialog that says the feature is not available.
TV_INPUT
The TV INPUT button on my remote.
TV_INPUT_COMPOSITE_1
Does not correspond to any key on my remote, but switches the input to VIDEO 1.
TV_INPUT_COMPOSITE_2
TV_INPUT_COMPONENT_1
TV_INPUT_COMPONENT_2
Does not correspond to any key on my remote, but switches the input to COMPONENT.
TV_INPUT_HDMI_1
TV_INPUT_HDMI_2
TV_INPUT_HDMI_3
TV_INPUT_HDMI_4
Does not correspond to any key on my remote, but switches the input to the corresponding HDMI input.
TV_INPUT_VGA_1
Has no apparent function on my TV.
TV_ZOOM_MODE
The WIDE button on my remote.
v2016.09.18:
This release resolves a major problem discovered in the build process and should improve stability.
CMAK is now available on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=by4a.keyboard.leanback
v2016.09.29
Optional non-staggered key layout
Added new "Peripheral Manager" but it's not good for much yet
Various internal fixes and improvements
If you're using CMAK, please post your feedback!
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v2016.09.29
Optional non-staggered key layout
Added new "Peripheral Manager" but it's not good for much yet
Various internal fixes and improvements
If you're using CMAK, please post your feedback!
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Is it opensource by any chance???
Awesome Idea
I am too using Sony Bravia... with Dishtv (india) this is really a great app.... :good::good:
i really needed such an app... what i am trying to do is map some dummy buttons on my remote to special key for STB_POWER
unfortunatley this is not working.....
as of now everytime i need to goto Action Menu >> Right >> Right >> STB_POWER >> Confirm
i was very happy to find this key in the key to dispatch but to my bad luck this isn't working yet....
also cmake is not available in India Playstore i had downloaded manually any country restrcitions ???
if this starts working for me i need not break my head to send ircc commands via tasker http wifi etc..... trying hard to fix that aswell.... that too seems very complicated and unreliable as of now as it has too much dependency :fingers-crossed:
Hi
There is no t9 keyboard entry for my remote and even i can't find t9 keyboard option in cmak settings
4a_j said:
CMAK is now available on Google Play:
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The app does not appear to be available in Canada. I'm getting a "Sorry! This content is not available in your country yet" message when clicking on the link. Any way you could make it available in Canada?
Thanks!
I would like to remapper this button (GLOBOPLAY - Orange Button) in TCL remote control, is it possible?
TCL 49C2US Android TV 6.0.
Don't work for me, any tutorial ?
I can't seem to get the Control Mapper to worn on my Shield. I set a button to launch the Control Mapper, but it never actually launches when I press it. I'm on Shield Experience 7.1.0 (Android TV 8.0). Any ideas?
EDIT: Turns out you have to hold the button for a few seconds. All good here now. Thanks!
Hi all.
Not sure how to use this. I have an Android TV Box with a remote that has numbers. I was hoping to be able to use the numbers as a T9 to enter text into the Box.
I installed CMAK but haven't found the way to use it yet. Can someone help me, please? Thanks in advance!
it`s no good without instruccions
To Whom It May Concerns !
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