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 | |
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