Thoughts on developing a chat client for android?

I was thinking about it, but Android is sort of splintered right now.  I'd have to support a whole bunch of different versions, which would be extremely tedious.

Oh !@#$ Compatibility right now haha.  Anyway, has anyone attempted this yet?

With a few modifications, JavaOp works fine on Android.
(Namely stripping out most of the plugin system, and making a new UI)
Or at least it does on a Emulator.

Well, firstly, you have to design for (I think) 8 different resolutions since 1.6.  Then there's also the whole thing where you define the minimum OS version and go from there, plus SDK, and hope people don't have non-standard versions.  Developing for Android right now is sort of a headache.

I was planning on designing strictly for STOCK 2.1 as a test and worry about the rest at a later point in time, if ever.

Maybe we can start something then.  I have no experience developing for Android, because it's pretty daunting to get started in alone.

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With a few modifications, JavaOp works fine on Android.
(Namely stripping out most of the plugin system, and making a new UI)
Or at least it does on a Emulator.
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Share it?

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Well, firstly, you have to design for (I think) 8 different resolutions since 1.6.  Then there's also the whole thing where you define the minimum OS version and go from there, plus SDK, and hope people don't have non-standard versions.  Developing for Android right now is sort of a headache.
[/quote]a robust UI won't have that kind of problem.

UI has never been my strong point.

Who needs a UI? Console style is fine, :P.

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Who needs a UI? Console style is fine, :P.
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Actually, using a program called MONO http://github.com/koush/androidmono you can develop C# Console Applications on Android.

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[quote author=Sixen link=topic=18231.msg184983#msg184983 date=1275134775]
Who needs a UI? Console style is fine, :P.
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Actually, using a program called MONO http://github.com/koush/androidmono you can develop C# Console Applications on Android.
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And for anyone who is interested or curious, you can also create iPhone apps with Mono using C#. I'm more than certain they'll have one for iPad soon enough if not already.

http://monotouch.net/

(Please excuse the bump. I'm actually being relevant this time.)

Is anyone still interested in this? I actually have an Android phone, so I might care enough to do it, and if Hdx says JavaOp mostly runs..

Then again, my phone runs Froyo and I don't feel like spending money on an Eclaire device. I can try things in the simulator, though..

a bot developer named Victim has made a bot which runs on Android: http://forum.devacy.com/index.php?board=13.0

How about something that works on b.net 2 for Android? I'm also up to 2.3.3 (Nexus S).

I don't think there's been any substantial public Bnet2 research, although I'd love nothing more than to be corrected.

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I don't think there's been any substantial public Bnet2 research, although I'd love nothing more than to be corrected.
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There hasn't.

Well...at some point in time Blizzard will migrate or work round having their older games' social features on b.net2. Now, the original b.net is just a thorn in Blizzards side and needs to be put down like an old dog.

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Well...at some point in time Blizzard will migrate or work round having their older games' social features on b.net2. Now, the original b.net is just a thorn in Blizzards side and needs to be put down like an old dog.
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I'd like to see how they do this. DRTL will be particularly tricky because it has no CD-Key to add it to your BNet account and I don't think any current Blizzard employees dare touch it's codebase.

I'm putting a nickle on them taking down BNet1 and having the former gateways act as "translation proxies" (is there official term? I made that up) to take you to BNet2. If this happens I think it'll mean that nobody will research BNet2 since all the past work will suddenly be relevant again.

They don't have to touch D1's codebase. All they have to do is create a new SNP file.

All one has to do is deobfuscate battle.net.dll so you can unencrypt all them packets.  Once you got that down, it should all be cake ;).  All the other info on the bitstream protocol for auth is public info from the WoW days and in relation to sc2, w/e was documented during sc2 beta. 
So pretty much the big job is that battle.net.dll and I only know of one person who fully deobfuscated that, which was a guy who went by " 'Rick " from a group called Lazytown, which was a short lived morph of a few members from two groups called teknogods and starcrack. 
Anyways, he never released it publically and has since disappeared.