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Google Play prohibits installing Wave on IR Blaster devices. #438

Open a-raccoon opened 5 years ago

a-raccoon commented 5 years ago

I have a Galaxy S5 with its own built-in IR Blaster, but I also built my own IR Wave device and I would like to test it from my Galaxy S5. Google Play store is set to prohibit installing the irplus WAVE app on devices with built-in IR. How is a hacker supposed to live?

irplus-remote commented 5 years ago

Hi, I've made this to avoid negative ratings of users who do not understand that irplusWAVE will not work on devices with integrated IR, and regular irplus will not work without integrated IR.

So ultimately if you want to test WAVE from S5 - Send me an email, ill provide you the APK, or install it from any other device without IR (regularly from playstore), and extract the APK, and sideload it to your S5 with tools like FX or any other File explorer

a-raccoon commented 5 years ago

Ok, thank you. I will try that approach.

On a side note, would you ever be willing to go open source and distribute on F-droid? I understand the ad revenue thing, and most people would still download your app from Google Play. But I'd like to take a peek at the code, and see about adding new dynamics for code searching and creating a customized remote -- ie, a remote of just power and mute buttons for 10 different televisions, etc. More code contributors is rarely a bad thing! ;)

irplus-remote commented 5 years ago

I've played with the idea. But to be honest, at the moment no. If i ever should "give" up the project, i will make it probably open-source. But until that day - I want to be the only one who develops it. See it as "It's my baby" ;-). Also i'd like to avoid that some copycats just make minor mods, and publish it as a "new" app with probably more annoying adds just to earn money. Note that, i'm not doing this to maximize profit. The banner is just a simple one and just earns enough to buy some beers and cover cost / time used.

If you have suggestions about features, and (maybe) even with implementation ideas (generic) one, I'd be happy to add them.

Note that everything related to the remote layout and codes, is technically already "open". You can export the layouts, edit them, and re-import them. The app has also an integrated XML editor for codefiles. So whats "closed" is basically just the algortihms end encodings for actually sending the various IR-formats and the app itself.