Android app for HA 3.0

[Daniel]

Thanks Daniel!

Actually, I meant to feedback to you earlier that I very much appreciate your app! A lot more convenient than accessing the rpi via web pages, if you ask me. I guess it has to do with web server response times, primarily? Or perhaps the web browser is slow, in my phone.

Thanks again, will download now!

Well, there's a lot more communication needed between the device and the server for the web interface than it is for the app, plus the web browser has to do some rendering etc, so I guess it's natural for the app to be faster.

Some time when I get time and inspiration I'll continue fixing the app, I've got some points on my todo. Won't happen this year though

/Daniel

[johanha]

Yes I guess it makes good sense that the app is faster.

Regarding future development: is your app project "open source"? I'm thinking about taking it one step further to be able to control stuff from the Watch. I don't really fancy starting out from scratch, but if I could build it on top of what you have done, I would definitely consider it. I'm thinking about creating a smart Watch 2 extension (Sony). Would you consider sharing your code for this purpose?

Cheers,
Johan

[Daniel]

Regarding future development: is your app project "open source"? I'm thinking about taking it one step further to be able to control stuff from the Watch. I don't really fancy starting out from scratch, but if I could build it on top of what you have done, I would definitely consider it. I'm thinking about creating a smart Watch 2 extension (Sony). Would you consider sharing your code for this purpose?

Sonys smart watches, they aren't Android Wear, are they? I've got my eyes on the LG G watch R, if I could control my lights from it I'd definitely buy it

Thing is, I generally think open source is the right way to go. Problem here is that this is the first app I've ever coded, I'm a complete Android coding newbie, so I'm a little embarrassed to show anyone my code, I get the feeling anyone who knows anything about anything would think it's very ugly

With that said, I'll look into putting it up on github or something.

/Daniel

[johanha]

Sony smart watch 3 is android, but 1 and 2 is proprietary. Since I have a SW 2 that is what i'm targeting first hand.

I understand your view on sharing your code; I suspect I would feel the same way. Sorry to say, I'm not a code guru myself so I can't offer to help out with improving code. On the other hand, you will not have to worry about what I would think about the code...

If you decide to share it, i will be very grateful! I will also be interested in working towards android wear on longer term, that is definitely the way to go...

/Johan

[Daniel]

Hi all.
I've now released my source code as GPL. I put it up on https://github.com/DanielMalmgren/HAndroid. Anyone is welcome to contribute!

/Daniel

[johanha]

Thumbs up!