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Miro for Android Phones
There should be a version of miro for android phones! currently all the media aggregation apps for android have two fundamental flaws. 1) there interface is crap and 2) You can't find the content you want to add to your feeds. With a modified interface and a miro guide mobile site this could kill the competition. and you could charge a few bucks per download and put that into development! I would like to help out on this project. If miro is disinterested I am thinking of possibly making a fork of miro myself for mobile phones.
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Inappropriate?It'd be interesting to port Miro to the Android platform. I don't have the time to do it and don't own anything that runs Android (and don't have the money to purchase anything, either).
I am skeptical of your "charge a few dollars for downloads" plan--it won't work as we neither own the content (the podcast creators/distributors do) nor the delivery (http/bittorrent). You'd have to build a very different Miro to get that to work.
As a side note, Miro works ok but not great on i386-based netbooks. I run it on an ASUS Eeepc 701, but it's sluggish. The present incarnation (Miro 2.5.3) is pretty file-system intensive which is something I'm hoping we fix in future versions. I don't recall what the Android platform hardware is, but if it's not i386-based, then that might be problematic.
Anyhow, it'd be cool to get Miro working on the Android platform if it's possible. I'd be interested in your progress. Feel free to ping me for help if you run into issues.1 Comment
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Charging is not a problem at all actually the Competing apps in the android market place are Google listen which is free but is pretty terrible. Beyondpod which is OK but not as good as miro and costs 2.00 and Dogcatcher which is great (or so I hear) but costs 7 dollars. So it doesn't really matter if we don't own the content or the delivery people just want an app that will do what miro does on an android phone and they are willing to pay a couple of bucks for it. One of the major hurtles will be the fact that Miro is written mostly in python. While andoid apps are written in a form of java. and tailoring the menues to small screens. So I will A) need to translate the code into Java which is no small task and B) develop an interface. So I basically need a development team.
You don't need an android mobile phone to do development work. They have an android plugin for Eclipse that does emulation. Also you can probably install Android on your eeepc there is some insight in linux journal's October issue in the article called put Android anywhere. Thanks for the support. -
Inappropriate?Oh, I misunderstood you. I thought you meant you wanted to charge for media downloads--not the application.
Regardless, rewriting Miro in Java is not just "no small task", but a massive project. Good luck with that. -
Inappropriate?Yeah I realize this is going to be hard fortunatly I only need to duplicate some of miro's functionality and layout. Things like the web browser end is already built into android. So it's really a matter of getting it to function with the miro guide website and maintaining the feel and ease of Miro. -
Inappropriate?Mike, I'm interested in helping do something which I feel will be "almost" as good. I'd like to write a media player for Android which syncs wirelessly with Miro and provides a Miro-like frontend. I don't wish to have that application itself do feed updates etc, it's a lot of work and the gain is nice, but it can come much later without hurting most users (I don't holiday without my laptop much I have to admit ;) ).
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