Title: Android phone and Unix

	Title: Android phone and Unix
	Author: Solène
	Date: 06 September 2016
	Tags: android emacs
	Description:

	If you have an android Phone, here are two things you may like:

	### Org-mode <=> Android ###

	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.

	[Official MobileOrg
	website](https://github.com/matburt/mobileorg-android/wiki)

	[MobileOrg on Google
	Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matburt.mobileo
	rg)


	### Read/Write sms from a remote place ###

	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 ?

	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.

	[Official MAXS Website](http://projectmaxs.org/homepage/)

	[MAXS on Google
	Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.projectmaxs.mai
	n)