Admin: Possible to deploy to multiple smartphones in parallel?

[RolandKluge]

Experience of the August 2017 workshop shows that it can be highly disturbing to repeatedly run the HandyVerbinden if you want to deploy the same app onto multiple devices.

We must find a better solution here.

The easiest way could be to provide a HandyTrennen.bat script that allows the student to deploy via USB.

The best solution would be to allow multi deployment via WiFi.

Steps

• [ ] Convert bat script to Gradle script?
• [ ] Maybe use gradle extension for adb (or just the 'default' gradle script generated by IntelliJ). Inspiration: https://gist.github.com/MohsenK/18972afd9a89db827f4a
• [ ] We could assume that the Mindroid smartphones always receive the same IP address via DHCP --> no need for wired connection

Useful resources

• Python scripts that do more or less what we want: https://thoughtsfromriga.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/control-apk-deployment-on-multiple-devices-simultaneously/
• Another stackoverflow post with some inspiration: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8610733/how-can-i-adb-install-an-apk-to-multiple-connected-devices
• A foreach script for adb:
  • https://gist.github.com/christopherperry/3208109
  • https://gist.github.com/thebagchi/df29ae862fc1c296dec2

[FeliciaRu]

@RolandKluge As far as I know, deploying to multiple smartphones via usb should work with the current setup, did you test that?

Not sure if multi deployment via Wifi is possible, never tried it as I only have one device. If that's possible we could remove the part of HandyVerbinden.bat that always disconnects all wifi devices before connecting to a new one.

[RolandKluge]

If that's possible we could remove the part of HandyVerbinden.bat that always disconnects all wifi devices before connecting to a new one.

This could be an option. We should identify the concrete problem first, of course. As soon as you are back, I can give you a second smartphone.

[RolandKluge]

@FeliciaRu I added some resources that may be helpful to the issue description