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Written by Solène, on 06 September 2016.
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#android
#emacs
If you have an android Phone, here are two things you may like:
First is the MobileOrg app to synchronize your calendar/tasks between your computer org-mode files and your phone. I am using org-mode since a few months, I think I do pretty basics things with it like having a todo list with a deadline for each item. Having it in my phone calendar is a good enhancement. I can also add todo items from my phone to show it on my computer.
The phone and your computer get synced by publishing a special format of org files for the mobile on a remote server. Mobile Org supports ssh, webdav, dropbox or sdcard. I’m using ssh because I own a server and I can reliabily have my things connected together there on a dedicated account. Emacs will then use tramp to publish/retrieve the files.
Second useful thing I like with my android phone is being able to write and send sms (+ some others things but I was most interested by SMS) from my computer. A few services already exists but they work with “cloud” logic and I don’t want my phone to be connected to one more service. The MAXS app provides me what I need : ability to read/write the sms of my phone from the computer without web browser and relying on my own services. MAXS connects the phone to a XMPP account and you set a whitelist of XMPP mails able to send commands, that’s all. Here are a few examples of use:
To write a SMS I just need to speak to the jabber account of my phone and write
sms send firstname lastname hello how are you ?
Be careful, there are 2 spaces after the lastname ! I think it’s like this so MAXS can make easily the difference between the name and the message.
I can also reply quickly to the last contacted person
reply to Yes I'm answering from my computer
To read the last n sms
sms read n
It’s still not perfect because sometimes it lose connectivity and you can’t speak with it anymore but from the project author it’s not a problem seen on every phone. I did not have the time yet to report exactly the problem (I need to play with Android Debug Bridge for that). If you want to install MAXS, you will need a few app from the store to get it working. First, you will need MAXS main and MAXS transport (a plugin to use XMPP) and then plugins for the differents commands you want, so, maybe, smsread and smswrite. Check their website for more informations.
As presenter earlier on my website, I use profanity as XMPP client. It’s a light and easy to configure/use console client.