[Dev] New "NavRadio+" ported to MTC devices

[KoTiX2]

After releasing my NavRadio+ for Allwinner and IntelSc9853 devices in december, i finally ported it successfully to MTC/HCT based devices (PX3, PX5. PX6, PX30, Snapdragon655).
I paste here the first post of my other thread as a presentation of my work:

I have been working since July 2019 this radio FM application originally created by Omega2008 (dipcore) from 4pda and I published it on playstore (with his permission of course) after some beta testing on allwinner and intel sc9853 units.

A FREE VERSION FOR XDA USERS IS AVAILABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THE XDA RULES AND TO LET USERS TEST THE COMPATIBILITY BEFORE BUYING IT.
YOU CAN FIND IT HERE:
V3.21 DROPBOX LINK
or
V3.21 GDRIVE LINK
IT DIFFER FROM PAYED VERSION JUST IN TERMS OF USER CUSTOMIZATIONS OPTIONS AND NO LOGOS SUPPORT.

If you are sure that your unit is compatible with the app you can get it on the Google PlayStore, here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.navimods.radio
or on the Huawei Appgallery at this link:
https://appgallery.huawei.com/app/C107643913

Here you can see a sample video of my working progresses:
Sample Video
Here a demonstration video of the automatic assignment of Logos, station name and alternative frequencies:
Demo
and here a review from a friend:
Review

It's widely customizable in the graphics and layouts:
- Wallpapers: Presets (about 30), system wallpaper, solid color, from personal images
- Color themes (20 predefined or personal adjustments)
- Night mode on / off, timed or automatic with car lights (MTC only)
- Resizable text elements and Font choice
- 4 view modes:
Vertical List (Left/Right and5,6 or 6 buttons)
Horizontal Grid (1x5, 2x3, 2x4, 2x5, 3x3, 3x4, 3x5)
Horizontal Carousel (5-11 items)
Fullscreen (double tap or timed)
- Selectable inactivity timer for fullscreen activation
- Toggable StatusBar in fullscreen mode
- Toggable Clock and GPS speed in fullscreen
- Toggable Frequency slider
- Automatic and manual assignement of Logo images to the stored radio stations based on RDS id and station name scraping.
- Logos can be downloaded from internet DIRECTLY IN THE APP or sideloaded.
- Station lists can be sorted by name or frequency and saved/restored in a Json format
- Improved RDS AF function with automatic storing and merging of alternative frequencies found
- Notifications Toasts
- Selectable Radio Region
- Station editable elements : Position, Frequency, Name, Logo, Favorites
- 2 Homepage Widgets, horizontal and vertical design
- Floating widget
- Autostart on boot option
- Support 800x480, 1024x600, 1280x720 and 1920x1080 display resolutions
- Resizable Texts elements
- App full settings backup/restore function


List of available Logos by nationality, in Bold the ones with automatic Logos assignement functionality (by RDS id):

EUROPE: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, Cyprus,Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Kingdom

SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Perù

USA: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Canada, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachussets, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Virgin Island, Washington, Washington DC, West Virginia, Winsconsin, Wyoming

CHINA, JAPAN, MALAYSIA, PHILIPPINE
MOROCCO, TUNISIA, SOUTH AFRICA
AUSTRALIA, NEW ZAELAND

Some pictures:

NavRadio+ is now available on playstore here:
[url]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.navimods.radio[/URL]
or on the Huawei Appgallery at this link:
https://appgallery.huawei.com/app/C107643913
With full support for all MTC devices.

 

[KoTiX2]

SOME TIPS:
TOGGLE SCREEN NORMAL/FULL:
- Double Click on the station information toggle fullscreen on/off.

NORMAL SCREEN:
- Long press on the station information popup the "ADD Station" dialog window if the station is not in your station list. If it's already in your list, it will focus the relative station button.
- Long press on a station button bring up the "EDIT Station" dialog window
- Single press on screen arrows <> does a small frequency step fwd/back
- Long Press on screen arrows does a quick search fwd/back

FULLSCREEN MODE:
- A Single press of the arrows <> switch to next/previous station
-A Long press on station information(center of the screen) bring up the "EDIT Station" dialog window.
- In interface settings you can remove the big frequency in background if a logo is available.
- In settings you can hide status bar, activate the clock and a speed gauge

STEERING WHEELS CONTROLS:
- The steering wheels commands act exactly in the same way as the fullscreen arrows, they just need to be setup in the correct way in carsettings application.

FAVORITE LIST:
- The FAV list is the result of merging FM and AM favorites, so you can have both frequencies in the same list.
- FAV stations can be edited within the fav list but cannot be added. You need to be on fm or am list to add a station and set it to favs.
- Deleting the FAV list will just remove the fav flag from the fm/am stations but will not delete them.
- Deleting AM/FM list it will delete the FAV list too.

LOGOS:
- you can use your own station logos, you just need to know where you have them stored and browse for them when editing a station.
- To get the stations Logos from the app you have to set the nationality of the logos in the interface menu, download and extract them.
Once they are extracted you have to edit each saved station to assign the logo image to it.
- The automatic assignment of the Logos is based on the RDS id of the radio stations (pi code) and the search of the logo by RDS name.
The first method (by id) is faster and more precise but it needs that the name of the logo contain the picode of the station and for this purpose i renamed them for some of the available countries. Of course i cannot make them all and the functionality of this method depend of the availability of correctly named logo images for your country.
The second method (by name) is less accurate and it work comparing the RDS name with all available logos. If the rsult of the comparison is 100% correct the logo is autoamatically assigned. If the result are more then one logo, a dialog window popup asking you to choose it.

AF (Alternative Frequencies) handling: (Doubleclick to switch between stored AF)
AF service allows the radio tuner to tune in to an alternative frequency when the signal becomes too weak. The minimum level signal can be set in factory settings (Auto Search Stop) and has been found
that around 30 db is the best choice.
To improve even more this service I added an automatic storing of the alternative frequencies so that every time a new frequency is received, it's added in a list.
After an autoscan some radio stations can be found on different frequencies, NavRadio+ have an option (in Settings/radio) to automatically merge the frequencies in just one button populating the AF list
The frequencies available in this list can be selected using the station editor or switched one by one DOUBLECLICKING on the station button.

NOTES:
I'm the only developer of the app and I work on it every single day for some hours a day.
I try my best to develope the app at best of my possibilities and I wish at evey release that it is bug and crash free.
This is very hard to achieve, even if I have some very good friends that help me testing it.
I'm really thankful to them for their help and support.

Thank everybody who beleive in my work and thanks for understanding.

 

[AdekP]

Originally Posted by AdekP
You made a very great application, it makes a great impression Applause for the very large personalization possibilities !!! Great job!
And now about mistakes.
1. Live-RDS does not work in my country. What it catches during tuning stays on the display and does not change. In Poland, in live RDS, e.g. the channel name, frequency, time, artist name of the song, its title are displayed ...
2. I noticed that the additional RDS info displayed on one channel is how I switch to a channel that does not send such information, the information from the previous channel remains
3. The AGAMA launcher does not read information from your application, the channel logo also does not display.
4. Screen savers that can display information and covers from other programs (spotify, black player ...) from your application do not display
5. In the settings, the equalizer button does not take us to its settings ...
6. 6. As you can see in the picture, the numbers of the first two channels are too close to the left edge and if someone like me has a screen of this type, he is not able to read their number from the driver's position. In vertical channel list mode this problem does not occur.
PS
AF works fine.


Thanks and I hope that I helped a little and that you will fix this RDS - for me it is one of the most important functions of the radio and without it, despite its fantastic appearance, it is of little use.
Fingers crossed

My HU: PX5, MTCE, Android 9.0 (hal9k ROM), 1024x600



edit:
I noticed today's update and made a clean installation
The equalizer is already starting
When it comes to RDS, I don't know if you have corrected something, but there is a positive change (maybe I didn't notice it yesterday). With manual scanning, RDS works very well until I save the radio channel, then the first RDS information is saved in the "channel name" field and it displays permanently and Live-RDS does not work (displays permanently saved information) . Video from the recording here: https://youtu.be/hofRdaaSG2A

Maybe you could enter an option in which you could select whether you want the application to save the channel name in its memory or not to save it. Then live-RDS would work for me if I checked that there would be no automatic saving of the channel name ... Or maybe you have a better idea? Just like in your older application that the name is saved and still RDS still displays the changing information?

PS
I don't know how in the latest version, but in the previous one you couldn't choose your own wallpaper or set your own background color (1.2)

Regards

 

[KoTiX2]

Originally Posted by AdekP
You made a very great application, it makes a great impression Applause for the very large personalization possibilities !!! Great job!
And now about mistakes.
1. Live-RDS does not work in my country. What it catches during tuning stays on the display and does not change. In Poland, in live RDS, e.g. the channel name, frequency, time, artist name of the song, its title are displayed ...
2. I noticed that the additional RDS info displayed on one channel is how I switch to a channel that does not send such information, the information from the previous channel remains
3. The AGAMA launcher does not read information from your application, the channel logo also does not display.
4. Screen savers that can display information and covers from other programs (spotify, black player ...) from your application do not display
5. In the settings, the equalizer button does not take us to its settings ...
6. 6. As you can see in the picture, the numbers of the first two channels are too close to the left edge and if someone like me has a screen of this type, he is not able to read their number from the driver's position. In vertical channel list mode this problem does not occur.
PS
AF works fine.


Thanks and I hope that I helped a little and that you will fix this RDS - for me it is one of the most important functions of the radio and without it, despite its fantastic appearance, it is of little use.
Fingers crossed

My HU: PX5, MTCE, Android 9.0 (hal9k ROM), 1024x600



edit:
I noticed today's update and made a clean installation
The equalizer is already starting
When it comes to RDS, I don't know if you have corrected something, but there is a positive change (maybe I didn't notice it yesterday). With manual scanning, RDS works very well until I save the radio channel, then the first RDS information is saved in the "channel name" field and it displays permanently and Live-RDS does not work (displays permanently saved information) . Video from the recording here: https://youtu.be/hofRdaaSG2A

Maybe you could enter an option in which you could select whether you want the application to save the channel name in its memory or not to save it. Then live-RDS would work for me if I checked that there would be no automatic saving of the channel name ... Or maybe you have a better idea? Just like in your older application that the name is saved and still RDS still displays the changing information?

PS
I don't know how in the latest version, but in the previous one you couldn't choose your own wallpaper or set your own background color (1.2)

Regards

Tnx for reporting

1. I added an option in Radio settings to enable LiveRDS mode (will be there in version 1.22)
2. I fixed it in version 1.21
3. I have to look at it but it's not my priority
4. I have to look at this one too but i guess it's hardcoded in the hal9k screensaver
5. I fixed it in version 1.21
6. I'll try to add some paddings to grid view

Background custom image and colors works ok here...

 

[AdekP]

Background custom image and colors works ok here...

Hmm, but i can't choose own custom image or change solid color.
When I click on my own image nothing happens, there is no option to choose such image. Also, I can't change the solid color (white is the default), no such option ...
Unless you do it somehow differently

 

[Timpuli]

First of all, awesome radio app. Great work!

Found one bug: If you try save channel/ frequency for example memory position 5 and you only have three saved stations, GUI will crash but radio remains open in the background.

And one request - Can you add outside temperature (from the can-bus) to the full screen mode, please?

Otherwise your app seems to work very well in my unit, MTCE_PX30_MX.
Testing will continue...

 

[KoTiX2]

Hmm, but i can't choose own custom image or change solid color.
When I click on my own image nothing happens, there is no option to choose such image. Also, I can't change the solid color (white is the default), no such option ...
Unless you do it somehow differently

Ok, for custom images please use a different file browser than the gallery and it should work. (i'll fix it anyway)
There is nothing special to do to select the color, just choose it with the circular slider, hit ok and go back to main view.
Which android version are you running?

 

[schariwari]

Fantastic work.. Ill cant´t wait for the first stable version... Hurry

 

[KoTiX2]

First of all, awesome radio app. Great work!

Found one bug: If you try save channel/ frequency for example memory position 5 and you only have three saved stations, GUI will crash but radio remains open in the background.

And one request - Can you add outside temperature (from the can-bus) to the full screen mode, please?

Otherwise your app seems to work very well in my unit, MTCE_PX30_MX.
Testing will continue...

The bug will be fixed in next version.
for the temperature i'll see what i can do

 

[AdekP]

Ok, for custom images please use a different file browser than the gallery and it should work. (i'll fix it anyway)
There is nothing special to do to select the color, just choose it with the circular slider, hit ok and go back to main view.
Which android version are you running?

The problem is that when you choose your own image option, the application goes to normal operation, the file browser does not open. The same with a solid color, no slider appears ... But that's not a problem the wallpapers embedded in the app are great, and now you have more important things to improve
I'm using Android 9.0 Hal9k
edit:
In terms of non-appearing information and logos of radio channels, on launcher or sreen saver, it seems to me that it is enough for such notifications to appear in the way shown in the picture. At least I have this information about the screensaver from hal9k

 

[KoTiX2]

In terms of non-appearing information and logos of radio channels, on launcher or sreen saver, it seems to me that it is enough for such notifications to appear in the way shown in the picture. At least I have this information about the screensaver from hal9k

For this week I'd like to kill all the bugs so I can release a final working version for MTC devices.
Tonight I released a 1.22 version with all the mentioned fixes plus a major fix to audiofocus that was causing music and radio to play togheter.

Anyway it has been reported me that the app is working fine on all PX series and I'm very happy about it.
Maybe a couple more of days and I can make an official public release :good: :laugh:

 

[Lince]

Thank you very much for this application, we hope to test it shortly.
Greetings

 

[AdekP]

Live-RDS works perfectly. Thank you so much for that!

I put two videos with small errors.
1. What I wrote about the impossibility of setting your own background image and a solid color.
https://youtu.be/8UhCqoH7Htw

2. Often after firing your application it starts to play, but it crashes me "to the desktop" and I get the message that: the application is not responding. If I put the application on the autostart either it is the same message or the radio starts without sound
https://youtu.be/yvEKncLoUao

 

[KoTiX2]

Live-RDS works perfectly. Thank you so much for that!

You wellcome, I'm glad it's working.

I put two videos with small errors.
1. What I wrote about the impossibility of setting your own background image and a solid color.
https://youtu.be/8UhCqoH7Htw

I guess this is happening only to you..... I hope to be able to reproduce it in some way....

2. Often after firing your application it starts to play, but it crashes me "to the desktop" and I get the message that: the application is not responding. If I put the application on the autostart either it is the same message or the radio starts without sound
https://youtu.be/yvEKncLoUao

Are you starting always with agama? could you try with the original launcher if it still crash?

Tnx for your reports

 

[AdekP]

You wellcome, I'm glad it's working.


I guess this is happening only to you..... I hope to be able to reproduce it in some way....

Are you starting always with agama? could you try with the original launcher if it still crash?

Tnx for your reports

Ok, today I will do the clean installation of the system and see if it is better

 

[Timpuli]

Head unit MTCE_PX30_MX.

Updated today to version 1.22...
After that my steering wheel buttons does not work as before. "Channel up" and "channel down" buttons just skipping between two stations. Buttons acts like "previous" channel?
Also if I try put some codes to "KEY" menu, everything works, but when I get back to GUI, radio app crashes. And it crash a lot, like AdekP wrote before. And I can not close radio anymore, only thing which seems to helps is uninstall app or clear app's memory under "app properties".

There were any of these issues with previous version 1.21, is it possible to roll back to this version? Just to check does it behave different?

 

[KoTiX2]

Head unit MTCE_PX30_MX.

Updated today to version 1.22...
After that my steering wheel buttons does not work as before. "Channel up" and "channel down" buttons just skipping between two stations. Buttons acts like "previous" channel?
Also if I try put some codes to "KEY" menu, everything works, but when I get back to GUI, radio app crashes. And it crash a lot, like AdekP wrote before. And I can not close radio anymore, only thing which seems to helps is uninstall app or clear app's memory under "app properties".

There were any of these issues with previous version 1.21, is it possible to roll back to this version? Just to check does it behave different?

Keys menu is for Allwinner units, I'll disable it in next builds for MTC devices.
Steering wheels buttons are working fine on my unit, be sure you set it up like this:
https://imgur.com/jUS6bON
it's not possible to rollback but i ensure you that i haven't change nothing in sterreing wheel handling

 

[Timpuli]

Keys menu is for Allwinner units, I'll disable it in next builds for MTC devices.
Steering wheels buttons are working fine on my unit, be sure you set it up like this:
https://imgur.com/jUS6bON
it's not possible to rollback but i ensure you that i haven't change nothing in sterreing wheel handling

Ok, thanks. I uninstall the app and then made a new install. Now everything is fine again, even seek up / seek down works. Maybe problem was "keys" menu and something were messed up when I try this

 

[AdekP]

Ok, today I will do the clean installation of the system and see if it is better

After a clean installation of the system, NavRadio starts well
I found a small error: the notification bar when switching the channel displays only its first letter from the name

 

[KoTiX2]

After a clean installation of the system, NavRadio starts well
I found a small error: the notification bar when switching the channel displays only its first letter from the name

Sorry id don't understand from that picture where the notification bar show that letter..

I found what was causing you to not show the color chooser menu and the wallpaper. It was the polish translation
Will be fixed in next version.:good: