DC download on Android

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 08:07:18AM +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote:
> > 
> > The greatest feature I can see missing from the mobile version is
> > downloading from a dive computer.  I don't know m/any people with a
> > Android or iPhone cable that connects to a dive computer, so Bluetooth /
> > BLE support would be awesome here.
> 
> The big single advance over the last few months has been Anton's
> implementation of a custom FTDI interface, specifically targeted at Android.
> Now that an Android .apk can be built again, I will try this out again.
> After quite a bit of testing I suspect my Android-to-DC cable actually
> works. Having tested Anton's interface code in Linux, the next step is to
> build the full desktop Subsurface on Android and verify that it works in the
> Android environment (and that the cable works). I have a prototype
> Subsurface-mobile UI written in Kirigami 1 (Dirk has a copy). After
> verifying Anton's FTDI interface on Android, the next step is to use this
> interface from within Subsurface-mobile. And all this has to happen without
> breaking the Subsurface desktop download from DC.

That does sound like it would be a huge step forward to making
Subsurface-mobile a lot more useful to a lot of people.

> I am diving for the next week, but this will be my priority when I return.

Lucky you

/D