BROADCAST Broadcast is an embedded web application for remote Android device management. Broadcast has four goals: - Remote monitoring: Make Android state and device data available over a network. - Remote control: Allow remote control of an Android device over a network. - Proof-of-concept: Demonstrate that complex ruby applications can run in an Android environment, even with constrained resources. - Framework: Set the groundwork for a number of advanced applications. POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS Off the top of our heads, here are some potential applications: - Remote surveillance systems - Remote device diagnostic utilities - Location tracking systems - Temporary network file servers CURENT FEATURE SET Broadcast is alpha-quality software, and is not feature-complete. The following features are supported: - view battery temperature - view last location - remote camera control and image preview - remote text-to-speech - file browsing, downloading and uploading PLANNED FEATURES - remote video recording - remote audio recording UNDER THE HOOD - Jruby - SL4A, Scripting Layer for Android - Lightweight, pure ruby server stack: sinatra + rack + webrick - rack-test and test/unit - jQuery Javascript framework - JSON for serializing AJAX request data SETUP Pleave see the SETUP file in this directory. LICENSE Broadcast is open-source software distributed under the MIT license. Copyright (c) 2010 Michael Leone, with support from Panoptic Development, Inc.