rtl_tcp port for Android

[Mike Jameson]

Legend! Top man :)

Mike
M0MIK
 On 30 Jan 2013 12:50, "Мартин Маринов" <martintzvetomirov at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am pleased to announce I have released an RTL2832U driver for android
> for the benefit of all of the developers working on SDR.
>
> The app could be found here
>
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=marto.rtl_tcp_andro
>
> And the sources are released under GPL2+ here
>
> https://github.com/martinmarinov/rtl_tcp_andro-
>
> So how do you use it in case you want to develop your own Android
> application that uses rtl_tcp_andro?
>
> It's quite simple, you need to add just one line of code to your existing
> Android app (assuming the user has the driver installed).
>
> *startActivityForResult(new
> Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW).setData(Uri.parse("iqsrc://-a 127.0.0.1 -p 123",
> START_REQ_CODE);*
>
>
> Where START_REQ_CODE is a random number you assign. This will start
> rtl_tcp_andro on the localhost at port 123. As you see the thing after
> iqsrc:// is just the command line arguments you pass to a regular rtl_tcp.
>
> If you want to be more fancy and do error capture, you should override
> this method in your Android activity and perform error detection as so:
>
> *@Override*
> * protected void onActivityResult(final int requestCode, final int
> resultCode, final Intent data) {*
> *
> *
> * runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {*
> *
> *
> * @Override*
> * public void run() {*
> * if (requestCode == START_REQ_CODE) {*
> * if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) { // rtl_tcp_andro has been started
> successfully!}*
> * else {*
> *
> *
> * try {*
> * switch (data.getIntExtra("marto.rtl_tcp_andro.RtlTcpExceptionId", -1)) {
> *
> * case 0:*
> * // exception - permission denied*
> * break;*
> * case 1:*
> * // exception - root required*
> * break;*
> * case 2:*
> * // exception - no devices found*
> * break;*
> * case 4:*
> * // exception - the user needs to reconnect the device*
> * break;*
> * default:*
> * // unknown exception*
> * break;*
> * }*
> * } catch (Exception e) {}*
> * }*
> * }*
> * }*
> * });*
> * }*
>
>
> It is that simple! rtl_tcp_andro will take care of showing different
> dialogs to the user for device selection. It will also take care of
> non-rooted devices by communicating with rtl_tcp_androi and sending the
> appropriate file descriptors, etc. You don't need to worry about all of the
> magic that is happening in the background - you only need to monitor the
> result of your intent request.
>
> If you get *RESULT_OK* then you are ready to go. Now what remains is to
> implement your own TCP client that connects to the appropriate host/port
> number and communicates using the *rtl_tcp* protocol. Make sure you send
> the additional "exit" command that rtl_tcp_andro has in order not to leave
> zombie services behind.
>
> That's all if you have any questions, feel free to contact me! Sorry for
> the bad state of the source code of rtl_tcp_andro, I will add comments as
> time passes by.
>
> Hope to see great new projects on the Android platform :)
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
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