Kiwijunglists Android Concept (1 Viewer)

[kiwijunglist]

Hi

Just starting my own android concept, some of the ideas are taken from diebadger's concept idea, but I wanted to have my own concept without interfering with his one. The application automatically sends a network wake on lan message to the mp client when it is run. When you click on My TV it also sends a wakeon lan network message to the tvserver. When you exit the android application it has dialog box asking if you want to put the MP Client +/- TV Server (if woken) to sleep.

Mediaportal Home

This is the main home screen for the android application.
Clicking on icons changes the screen on the android remote but will not effect the client.
The bottom bar shows the currently playing media
The look of the bottom bar depends on the current type of playing media (music / live tv / videos / remote mode)
Current example shows music playing
- Bottom buttons from left -> right are, playlist, prev track, play/pause, next track.
Bottom right icon brings up remote
- General remote / Numpad / Keyboard

My TV - Main screen

Back - Returns android application to main home screen
TV Guide - Displays the TV Guide
Channels List - Displays a list of the TV Channels for changing channel on the MP Client
Recorded TV - Displays a list of TV Recordings for playback on the MP Client
Transfer Recordings - Displays a list of Recorded TV, clicking on a recording will copy the recording to the androids SD card +/- transcode prior to copy if necessary
Stream Live TV - Displays a list of TV Channels for streaming on the android device
Stream TV Recordings - Displays a list of TV Recordings for streaming on the android device

Bottom Bar: Current channel name + channel title on MP Client (TV MODE as my imaginary MP Client is currently watching TV)

Bottom Screen: (TV MODE)
First button - popup with list of tv channels
Second button - Prev channel
Third button - Pause
Forth button - Next channel
Fifth button - Launch ALT remote

My TV - TV Guide

My TV - Channels List

In the setup of the remote you can choose either
- icons + Channel name
- or Icons + Program title list.

The reason for this is not everyone sets up their tv icons properly

Remote Control

Sorry it's a bit ugly currently. The buttons just work like a regular IR remote
Bottom buttons: Back arrow returns to previous screen prior to launching remote control, other buttons load keyboard/numpad

Remote Keyboard

Sorry it's a bit ugly currently. The buttons just work like a regular keyboard
Bottom buttons: Back arrow returns to previous screen prior to launching remote keyboard, other buttons load remote control/numpad

Remote Keypad

Sorry it's a bit ugly currently. The buttons just work like a regular keypad
Bottom buttons: Back arrow returns to previous screen prior to launching remote keypad, other buttons load remote control/keyboard

 

[DieBagger]

Hi

Just starting my own android concept, some of the ideas are taken from diebadger's concept idea, but I wanted to have my own concept without interfering with his one.

diebadger? what??? kiwidjilist???

I'm guessing you're the proud owner of a galaxy s?

Mediaportal Home

This is the main home screen for the android application.
Clicking on icons changes the screen on the android remote but will not effect the client.
The bottom bar shows the currently playing media
The look of the bottom bar depends on the current type of playing media (music / live tv / videos / remote mode)
Current example shows music playing
- Bottom buttons from left -> right are, playlist, prev track, play/pause, next track.
Bottom right icon brings up remote
- General remote / Numpad / Keyboard

Tbh I would stay consistent with the right icon (return to homescreen). Otherwise it will be confusing for the user and I find that in the winamp app it's very handy that you can return to the homescreen from any screen of the app.

My TV - Main screen
Back - Returns android application to main home screen
TV Guide - Displays the TV Guide
Channels List - Displays a list of the TV Channels for changing channel on the MP Client
Recorded TV - Displays a list of TV Recordings for playback on the MP Client
Transfer Recordings - Displays a list of Recorded TV, clicking on a recording will copy the recording to the android device +/- transcode if necessary
Stream Live TV - Displays a list of TV Channels for streaming on the android device
Stream TV Recordings - Displays a list of TV Recordings for streaming on the android device

I think as far as the tv-guide goes it should be used to browse the epg from the tv-server on the device and schedule recordings/start timeshifting. The part that actually tunes the program on the MediaPortal client should be seperate in the remote control section (you can have 1 tv-server but multiple clients) more like the mini-epg in MediaPortal. Althoug a context menu when long pressing on an epg item saying "start on client x" with all connected clients sounds pretty nice as well...

As far as Stream Live TV goes, it seems like https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...treaming-symbian-android-other-clients-89967/ managed to get a working transcoding for android. Haven't tried it yet though. Streaming the rtsp stream directly doesn't work unfortunately (even though android supports rtsp).

One super-awesome feature would be a transfer button for every item available (recordings/videos/music/..) which copies it to the android sd card.

 

[kiwijunglist]

oh yeah i thought u were some kinda badger or squirrel yup i have a galaxy s, although i want to get a Desire HD.

with regard to the bottom screen i'm actually thinking maybe it should be like this

| HOME | RRWD | PLAY | FFWD | REMOTE |

home takes the android app back to the main screen
remote takes the android app into remote mode (remote control / keyboard / numpad).
don't have a playlist button, playlist could be accessed by draging up the bottom bar as per your concept.
The other thing to consider is should there be a back button here to return to previous android application screen,
this might be useful because then you don't have to integrate the back button into the upper half of the screen.

But when in the remote mode (the bottom screen should have the following)
1. return back to previous screen prior to bringing up the remote
2. toggle between remote control / keyboard / numpad
3. maybe it should also have the home button to goto main screen as well here (to keep consistency)

I have to think of a nice way to display tv guide on such a small device
I can think of two different ways

1. Regular View, same as current TV Guide on MP Client

Displays all channels vertically and then you scroll left/right to change the time, I'm not sure if you can fit always this info on such a small screen.

2. Channel View

Display only one channel at a time
Scroll vertically for the time
Buttons at top on either side of the channel name for viewing next/prev channel

3. Mini guide style view

Similar to the miniguide view on the mp client
Displays only currently playing tv show + next tv show for all channels

 

[bodiroga]

Hi Kiwijunglist!

I really like you mobile app concept, but... what do you need for that "back" button? Can the hardware "back" button be used for that purpose? I personally don't like those back buttons in lists (as well as in Mediaportal) when we have hardware buttons that can make the same.

What do you think?

Keep up with the great job and don't stop making mockups, ideas...

Best regards,

Aitor

 

[kiwijunglist]

yup you are right there is possibly no need for back button as most (but not all) android devices have hardware back button.
I was also thinking about the button for toggling on screen keyboard, it is possible that this could be done with the menu button.
you can also check out deadbadger's mock up here - https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...oid-mediaportal-app-concept-90082/#post684887 it's a bit nicer than mine.

 

[DieBagger]

yup you are right there is possibly no need for back button as most (but not all) android devices have hardware back button.
I was also thinking about the button for toggling on screen keyboard, it is possible that this could be done with the menu button.
you can also check out deadbadger's mock up here - https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...oid-mediaportal-app-concept-90082/#post684887 it's a bit nicer than mine.

Most definately not, your concept is at least as good, keep em coming...



Btw got excited today and started a bit on the ui design, will post some in-app screens soon...

 

[kiwijunglist]

i got some ideas for a top drag down menu based on your concept I'll post mock up idea in to your thread.

 

[kiwijunglist]

Idea for tv guide added

 

[Thundercats]

WOW! How come i have overlooked this thread? therr are ( i think) 2 other threads in the MP-forum that are trying to create an android-remote-app also. Yours is getting very close to what i am searching for so far.

Maybe dumb question, but is the app allready up-and-running or still in concept? Will you implement full MP-functionallity (i mean, i have not seen anything according to playing/controlling my music/moving pictures etc. yet)

Check-out this thread also: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/webservice-mobile-access-537/android-android-remote-89895/

Will yours auto-scale if i run this on a 8 inch android tabletPC?

 

[kiwijunglist]

totally concept to express and share ideas it will not be developed as I don't program. There are two android remotes (that i know of) being created for mediaportal in mind.

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/webservice-mobile-access-537/android-android-remote-89895/

and

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...ss-537/android-mediaportal-app-concept-90082/

there may be others too