It toke me some time but I hope it worth it. This release now supports all TuxDroid features, even those which are not implemented yet (Sleep, ping, etc). Apart from that, the API now comes with a new TuxManager, a widgets based graphical application.
Core API
This is mainly a reverse ingeneered version of the very clear Python API reworked to fit Java standards.
- All TuxDroid features (motors, captors, speech, sound, system, etc..) are supported.
- Mostly all useful status are accessible by a getXXX() and by events (classical swing system, on event, multiple listeners). To follow the daemon philosophy, getting a status is giving you the value but also generate associated event to listeners.
- I rewrote the protocol engine that should be fully thread-safe now, even with re-entrance (getting a status that generate an event that is getting the same status
- Lost Connection recognition and automatic reconnection.
- Building process is using Maven. There is now a specific maven repository for all libraries so everything can be build from source very easily (just untar & maven compile)
- JavaDoc is included with sources. It's covering about 80% of core API.
TuxManager
A Swing application that can be seen as the merge of Python Gadget Manager and tuxgi
- Core UI simply contains a Tuxlet selector, a traces output and a status bar for all important states (AC, RF, TTS, Tuxd, etc..)
- All other features are wrapped in a plugin (tuxlets) system.
- Tuxlet framework is included in the API).
Tuxlets
For testing purpose, 3 "tuxlets" (gadgets) are included.
- "Movement Tuxlet" : basically the same as tuxgi first pane.
- "Configuration Tuxlet" : speech test and voice selection, sounds test and management, information pane juste showing all Tux components versions.
- "Insight Tuxlet" : just a joke to demonstrate light sensor.
More tuxlets will come later. I already wrote RSS reader, Clock and Weather. They just need a proper configuration panel
That's it for now. Just to finish a big thank you to Sonny ( http://geekrc1.free.fr ) who kindly accepted to test the beast and found nice bugs