<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks to all for the responses. </div><div><br></div><div>Q: W<span style="color:rgb(72,72,72);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">here would be the place to start discussion around an Android effort?</span></div>
<div><br></div><div>Based on the comments in the linked Feature #1369, Android is not in scope or on the roadmap for the existing development team. It sounds as if the existing code base could be forked for the new platform, based on the existing separation between the <span style="color:rgb(72,72,72);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">driver/radio/clone logic and UI. The fact that there is a commandline tool (even if very neglected) may provide an additional starting point.</span><br>
</div><div><span style="color:rgb(72,72,72);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><font color="#484848" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">Ideally, I'd like a new community of developers (I have some in mind) to support such an effort, so as to not add work to the existing devs. At the same time, there's a tremendous amount of knowledge the existing team has developed, and I'd like to leverage as much of that as is reasonable.</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#484848" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#484848" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">Disclaimer: I'm not a developer (I've done it, and I know what I'm not good at). Scripting and admin-type work, or project management, that I can do. </span></font></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:30 PM, John LaMartina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JohnLa@usa.net" target="_blank">JohnLa@usa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I agree with Milt.<br>
I blew the dust off my wife’s old Asus Netbook.<br>Great for field programming with CHIRP<br><br>John K3NXU<br><a href="http://www.miklor.com" target="_blank">http://www.miklor.com</a><br><br><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank">chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank">chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Milton Hywatt<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, April 06, 2014 11:43 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Discussion of CHIRP<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP for Android?<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
</div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Chirp works well on my 10" Dell Netbook <br>
and Windows XP all on a 7.5 gigabyte solid <br>state hard drive. I picked mine up used for $75.<br>off Ebay. I use a USB mouse and keyboard if<br>I need a little bigger keyboard. Probably a good<br>way to go if you plan on using Chirp in the field. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Ronny Julian <<a href="mailto:k4rjjradio@gmail.com" target="_blank">k4rjjradio@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Discussion of CHIRP <<a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, April 6, 2014 11:29 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP for Android?</span></font><font color="black" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="3" color="black" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">If what you want is a small footprint computer running CHIRP to carry in a go box try a Raspberry Pi or a Beaglebone Black. Both will fill the bill just fine.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="3" color="black" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Tom Hayward <<a href="mailto:esarfl@gmail.com" target="_blank">esarfl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="3" color="black" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Rich Barstow <<a href="mailto:kc1bhr@barstow.cx" target="_blank">kc1bhr@barstow.cx</a>> wrote:<br>
> Forgive me for asking, but I searched the last few months of mailing list<br>> archives, both on the user and the dev side, without finding a roadmap or<br>> references to an Android version.<br>><br>> Are there any plans? If not, what's the best way to contact the developers<br>
> to discuss?<br>> If yes, how can I offer assistance? (testing or coding)<br><br>The reason you don't see it discussed here often is because it's in the FAQ.<br><br>Some of the technical issues are listed here:<br>
<a href="http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/1369" target="_blank">http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/1369</a><br><br>Feel free to discuss a port of Chirp to Android, but realize that none<br>of the GUI code is compatible. The underlying radio clone code should<br>
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