Chris McCormick has done a wonderfull android app, it enable you to run your pd patches on your android smartphone and play with them anywhere, provided that you keep it vanilla.

1- Go there : http://droidparty.net/
and download the apk on your PC

2- Download the attached zip, (it's a tested and working patch.) unzip it on you computer.

3- Search File Expert on the android market and install it (https://market.android.com/details?idxcxin.filexpert)

4- Once file expert is installed, fire it up, and click on Share (in the bottom line) -> choose "enable web sharing" (this will share your sdcard localy). A message appears and gives you info such as an adress, a username and a password (remember it, or keep it displayed onto your phone)

5- On your pc, launch your preferred browser enter the adress, it will prompt you for usename and password.

6- Double click on the big icon, and you have access to your SDcard.

7- Create a folder of you choice (right click -> New Dir), enter it and upload the apk (right click ->upload). Once the upload finished, just click the uploaded file it will install on its own.

8- Go back to the root folder of the SDcard, create a new folder of you choice to put your patches (say "Pure-Data"), enter it. Create a new folder called XY-Pad, and upload all the files from the zip in this folder. "droidparty_main.pd" is the main patch you can have a look at it on your PC first.

9- Close File Expert on your phone by pressing back several times, and launch PdDroidParty it will find your patches on its own.

10- Have Fun !

note : I choose to use an app to share you sd card wia wifi (because it's faster than pluging and mounting your phone each time you want to test something), but you can of course use USB cable to do all the transfers beetween phone and computer. But you'll need a file browser anyway to install the transfered apk

edit : you need to authorize non-market apps to be installed. Just go in Parameters -> Application and check the first box (something like "authorize non-market application")

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/XY-pad-droid.zip

Shawn you can try by usb cable.

Just create a folder on your sd card called XYPAD, and copy the pd patch + abstractions in it (6 files). PdDroidParty will find the main patch by itself thanks to its name.

To be sure, you've install the .apk with no pb ? so what happens when your launch the app ? you get a black screen showing a message "no patches found on device" ?

Uh I got it thank you it works

Great :D
What was the issue for those who might encounter the same pb ?

Have fun !

I think it was my phone rest it till it worked ......With all dew respect can we use this in the android to make for free app or 1.99 apps
rjdj has "can of beats up" for 1.99 can I do that is it? I realty don't like to ask this do we the same rights for selling our work max/msp for live you can sale you work in a vst $100.00 (quality)can I do the same

And when you make some thing spend time with it go adove and beyond standard and simple max/msp vst seem to be better them most

It's GPLv3 so I guess you could. Check it out by yourself.

But you still have some work to do how would you package and distribute this ? It won't be honnest to sell a patch to be loaded in a third-party app, well now one would buy that I guess... you could but it should be very cheap... just be sure that your amount of work is significant and is worth the value, you wouldn't want to rip people off , would you ?

I understand that thank you I don't rip some one off I would not be able to sleep at night knowing I riped some one off. I am not that type of person

it was more of a joke

this is one hell of a useful app. really exciting. and deserves a lot of attention from the pd community...

i'm currently trying to make a multi-partial musical instrument tuner / spectrum analyser to run on my galaxy s2 so i can analyse and tune the overtones in xylophone/marimba bars. it'll never replace my strobe tuner, but the initial results are pretty encouraging

one question:
i'm having a lot of trouble getting a number stream out of a vslider object. if i set the vslider's send symbol to "foo" then try receiving the output in a vanilla number box (ie, not a droidparty numberbox) with receive symbol "foo", i get nothing. the patch works fine when run on my pc though.

is this a known issue?

could you upload the patch so I can check it ?

difficult to answer that question without seeing the patch, btw what phone do you use ?
Driven numberbox should work, you could try the droidparty-test on the project page, there are examples of this

ah, sorry - i'm a bit slow today... meant to attach a patch and forgot. here it is.

on my pc, sliding the vslider moves the red canvas AND outpus numbers to the number box just below the vslider.

but on my phone (galaxy s2) only the red canvas moves. there are no numbers displayed in the number box.

hmm...

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/droidparty_main.pd

Well that's weird. Everything seems fine. I tried several stuff :
-using a number2 instead
-using a canvas and changing it's label

What'w weird is that somehow it worked for five seconds and then it froze. So label doesn't work, but numberboxes (both) work now on my phone (HTC Sensation) but only for short time ... then they froze. The patch is attached.

I know that a new version is undergoing so maybe it will fix it, all I can say is way a little, or find a workaround.
You can try the resizeable numberbox in the droidparty_abstraction too on project page, there is also the display abstraction that could help. I will look into it later

cheers

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/droidparty_main.pd

yep. strange indeed...

i've attached a patch that highlights the inconsistencies.

when you pass a number stream through a [float] object, it seems to solve the problem of number boxes not responding to the input. (on my phone at least - galaxy s2). this is true for both types of number boxes.

i also don't experience the freezing issues you mentioned - although i haven't had the patch running for more than about a minute.

other things that i've noticed:

• message-changing canvas labels don't seem to work
• canvas colours are inconsistent between pc and android
• number box font size doesn't seem to be functional on android

hope that helps

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/droidparty_main.pd

I can confirm all that aswell and it doesn't freeze anymore

so we can consider the pb solved !

or at least worked-around

The things I wan't to try ..... load any sample from my phone in to a table? .....and open pd pages?.......see if I can run pd net? (the chat room)

I am having a problem with object sizes of every thing . When i have it at the right size them I add a few things it just gets smaller when i run it

Hi Shawn,

1- to load any sample from the sd card you'll need an external, [readanysf~] I don't really know how it works with PdDroidParty.

2- what do you mean by open pd pages ? something like this ?
[bang(
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[vis 1(
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[pd-open-mysubpatch]
it will not work at the moment, but dealing with multiple pages for GUI may be an interesting developpement.

3- I don't know about pd net.

4- for the object sizes, they are re-scaled to you phone screen size automatically. that's why it gets smaller when you add stuff.

keep us posted, cheers

ok I will try every think and tell you what dose not work so we can improve one the next release.

Hi guys!
I don't mean to interrupt, but i have a question : has anyone successfully managed to get Chris' [loadsave] abstraction to work on her phone? This doesn't work on my girlfriend's (htc magic running android 2.2).
I have tried getting in touch with Chris recently but he hasn't replied yet.

Incidentally, I have a patch for measuring your device's latency that works (sort of) on my girlfriend's phone. I can post it if you think you could need it. It's based on Miller's patch in the Stuff folder.