Android 2.0 & Multiple Resolution Support

Author: Christopher Souvey

2 Nov

This weekend, in anticipation of the Verizon Droid’s arrival this week, I released an update to Musical Lite and Musical Pro that should provide support for Android 2.0 and the new larger and smaller screen sizes that are heading to the next generation of Android phones. Once the Droid comes out, I’ll hopefully be able to experiment with the multi-touch and implement it in Musical (as Android 2.0 on new phones finally supports multi-touch). Sorry for the lack of exciting new features in this release–I had to spend my time making the existing features work with new phones. Good things are coming… stay tuned!

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13 Responses for "Android 2.0 & Multiple Resolution Support"

randy November 15th, 2009 at 1:13 am 1
any word on multitouch support for the droid?

thanks!
Christopher Souvey November 16th, 2009 at 9:49 am 2
I’ve actually already finished adding Android 2.0 multitouch features. Unfortunately, the Droid’s multitouch is terrible, so I’m not sure I’m going to release it. The Droid only supports 2 fingers, and the fingers have to be 2 full white keys (!!!) apart before it will detect them separately. I’m still trying to figure out what to do about this, as people will be expecting multitouch, but it just isn’t good enough…
Chris H November 22nd, 2009 at 12:33 pm 3
Is there any chance you could put a version of musical lite in appslib for the new archos 5? It doesn’t have android market but I’d really like to try musical out on it.
Christopher Souvey November 25th, 2009 at 10:37 pm 4
I’m currently investigating alternative distribution platforms. Hopefully I’ll find a good way to provide support for the Archos soon.
Fabio December 2nd, 2009 at 5:36 am 5
Here’s another feature request.
It would be great to have some tool to learn how to read music. I’ve used some windows software when the notes flowed along the score and the user had to type their name.
Also, some tool to practice rhythms would be just great. If you know GNU solfege (that’s an open source program available for windows and linux) it has that and many other features too.

Thank you for reading.
Christopher Souvey December 2nd, 2009 at 8:42 am 6
I’ll definitely keep that in mind. I haven’t decided yet how much I want to focus Musical Pro on education, but I will likely blog post about it when I make some decisions. Thanks!
ari-free December 4th, 2009 at 1:12 pm 7
what about using the droid’s physical keyboard?
Christopher Souvey December 4th, 2009 at 1:17 pm 8
The Droid’s keyboard doesn’t have enough rows/keys to work correctly in the “Keyboard” mode (which works on the G1 with the physical keyboard, and will partly work on the Droid). And in the scrolling mode, I’m not sure how exactly keyboard support would work, since the keys are constantly changing as you scroll.
Tom December 12th, 2009 at 4:07 am 9
Can you add a spot to re-callibrate?

It came up the first time I launched it when you updated it, but I can’t find a way to do it again.

That would be awesome!
Thanks for a great tool.
Christopher Souvey December 12th, 2009 at 11:00 am 10
There is no calibration feature–capacitive screens don’t require constant calibration like resistive ones
What you saw was probably the multitouch wizard, which just tells you what type of multitouch your device has and enables it for the drums and piano.

Why are you looking for it? Are things not working correctly?
Jeff March 5th, 2010 at 9:55 pm 11
Christopher:

My hats off to you, you’ve obviously created a great app; my problem….

I’ve only had my droid for two days, but I got it partly because I wanted an app like yours and none was available on my blackberry. So imagine my frustration, when I cannot find it to download anywhere. It supposedly is available on android market, but how do you find anything on that website, when it has no search tool?

I really want to buy it. How do I do that?
Christopher Souvey March 5th, 2010 at 10:08 pm 12
The Android Market (like most applications in Android) has search functionality. The easiest way to access it is by pressing the search button on your device.
Once you get the search open, just search for either Musical Pro or Musical Lite and it should work
Jeff March 6th, 2010 at 5:56 am 13
Christopher,

Thanks, I got it. My problem was I was accessing the Market from the web, instead of the widget on the phone. From the web there is no search. Thanks for the great program.