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= Android Client =

This client is a work in progress, it shares the core code with the [/wiki/Clients/Java Java clients].

Warning: development of this code has stalled, but there is now a new alternative: [http://lists.devloop.org.uk/pipermail/shifter-users/2015-June/001289.html Android client by Jakub Księżniak].
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== Future Work ==

* focus bugs
* keyboard support: show popup keyboard via menu key and/or button in window bar (see [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5419766/how-to-capture-soft-keyboard-input-in-a-view How to Capture soft keyboard input in a View?], and handle keyboard modifiers when simulating mouse events
* use a separate thread for networking
* android key events: #29
* xpra android window container and sizes: #30
* handle zooming with pinch
* handle focus window with double tap
* drag could use the same pixmap as {{{XpraWindow}}} (and ignore/deal with resize?)
* context menu: about, preferences, etc
* don't disconnect when screen times out? (option? or re-connect on resume)
* ssh support
* launcher gui: detect invalid host/port and show a more friendly error message
* handle "disconnect" requests and IO errors better
* add window icon
* video encoding support (may require a video container format), pointers:
 * [http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/mediaplayer.html Media Playback] ''You can play audio or video from media files stored in your application's resources (raw resources), from standalone files in the filesystem, or from a data stream arriving over a network connection, all using MediaPlayer APIs.''
 * [http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/video-playback-app-on-android-whitepaper/ Video Playback App on Android Whitepaper] (sample code included)
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