Litecoin support

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Request for enhancement of app by including multi crypto currency support 
including litecoin. 

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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

What version of Bitcoin Wallet are you using? On what Android version and
what phone? Don't just state 'most recent', this is not enough info.

If you have problems with particular transactions, what is your Bitcoin
address? If you happen to have transaction IDs, please state them as well.

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by TylerSpi...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2013 at 6:32

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For a dedicated litecoin wallet, see 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach.wallet.litecoin

In order to get litecoin support into Bitcoin Wallet, we need to

1. get litecoinj merged into bitcoinj
2. extend Bitcoin Wallet to support multiple wallets
3. extend Bitcoin Wallet to support multiple chains
4. get litecoin on the latest protocol

ad 1: I think it would be best if someone would speak up on the bitcoinj 
mailing list and explain the plans (Alex?). Usually Mike, the lead developer, 
has very valuable feedback. Be prepared to write a lot of unit tests, if you 
haven't done already.

ad 2: This is something that has to happen anyways. Its kind of a prerequisite 
for encrypted wallets and HD wallets, and of course also multiple chains. I 
plan to work on it as soon as Bitcoin Wallet version 3.0 is released (hopefully 
within a month).

ad 3: I had this already planned as well. Currently I'm already maintaining two 
apps (Prodnet and Testnet), and its a pita sometimes. The tricky part here will 
be memory consumption and resources in general. Its already stressful to 
download one chain, but multiple chains? It's safe to assume that you will need 
powerful (Jelly Bean class) hardware for this.

ad 4: Protocol version 70001 (Bitcoind/bitcoin-qt 0.8.x) contains a very 
important enhancement for SPV clients called Bloom Filters. It saves a huge 
amount of traffic, RAM and CPU cycles. Without these optimizations, mobile 
clients simply can't scale. What's the plan with litecoin for this?

(copied from 
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=157932.msg1703864#msg1703864)

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 12 Apr 2013 at 11:15

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Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2013 at 4:52

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I think this will not happen anytime soon. See README.forks for a list of forks 
that support various altcoins, including litecoin.

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 26 Feb 2014 at 12:36

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