I am Ashley Elsdon

someone who's doing some things

Tag: Apps

Everything is about apps at the moment. A lot of what I mention under the apps tag is around iOS and mobile music, but there’s other stuff too, and not just iOS, but Android, Palm OS and Windows mobile.

Processing again

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It really is time that I got back to actual making of things, be they physical or digital. Going back to processing has a nice feel to it. I like to make stuff, and processing is easy, or at least a lot easier than other languages I’ve tried.

I’ve got a few new ideas I want to try out and a lot of old sketches that never got finished or that don’t work anymore for one reason or another. I also want to dabble with processing for Android and see what I can do with that. I did get a few small sketches running on my underpowered Android phone, but I want to see if I can do anything musical with it.

I’ll post them again when I’ve got something done.

Trouble with Android Processing

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Over the weekend I’ve been trying to get my installation of Processing for Android up to date to start getting a few things built. Sounds simple enough right? Wrong! It has been taking me ages to get this stuff to work. I’ve no idea why either.

I was hoping to actually get things working on Saturday so I could spend some time trying out some ideas on Sunday.  No chance though.

Did Apple kill Instapaper?

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Now that Apple has announced a ‘read it later’ feature in mobile safari does that mean that services like instapaper and read-it-later are doomed?

I hope they aren’t. Both of these services are really useful in different ways from each other and my bet would be that Apple’s version within mobile safari won’t be as good but could damage the existing apps and their business models.

Of cours there’s a certain sense of inevitability with services like this that can be subsumed into the OS. My hope is that both of these will develop and expand their services beyond what Apple bring in the autumn, but I guess I’ll have to wait and see. I’d hate to see them disappear.

Getting Serious about Android (at last)

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I bought this a couple of weeks ago with the intention of getting more serious about doing stuff with my Android device, or rather devices as I seem to have 2 now. I’m going to give it a proper go and see if I can’t do something meaningful with these very soon.

I guess I haven’t really explored the possibilities of Android properly and I should sort that out.

So hopefully over the next few weeks I’ll be posting on how I’m using Android more successfully, and not just for music related things either.

More Processing, More Android

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Finally got back to using processing again today, and what’s more I actually got a few old sketches running on my Android phone which was a lot of fun. I’m really impressed with how processing for Android converts sketches for the web into something that works well on a small screen.

I’m hoping to not only keep the momentum going with this but also try to make something useful with processing hopefully. We’ll just have to see how that goes. For now it is great to be back making something again.

Moving forward: Back and Forth

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I got to spend some time with my latest music project yesterday. I’ve been experimenting with processing audio through Jasuto which has had some interesting results.

As I said before, I think that the creative process in making these soundscapes may end up being more satisfying that the actual finished product, but at the moment I’m not worrying too much about that. I think I’ll enjoy the process for now and see where I end up with in a couple of months.

Getting Started with Android

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So I’ve gotten myself an Android device that works at last. I finally got tired of trying to get my old G1 to do what it really wasn’t cut out for and got an Orange San Fransisco. So far so good, I’m enjoying playing with a new (sort of new) OS again.

It is an interesting OS to muck about with as there’s a lot more scope to get it to do things like scripting and running processing sketches, and that’s just for starters.

I’ll be posting more about getting used to Android of the stuff I’m doing with it.

Audioboo

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I haven’t used this app / service in ages now and then I noticed it again yesterday and thought that I should take a look again.

It seems that Audioboo has come on quite a way since I last used it and it could be quite a convenient way of making and sharing interesting recordings. I think I’ll need to spend a bit of time getting used to it again and see if it fits the bill.

Messing about with App Inventor

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I’ve been playing with Google’s Android App Inventor site, and it is a lot of fun to mess about with. However, at the moment, it is unlikely to be useful for any kind of serious musical application building.

There is talk of being able to introduce extensions to App Inventor so you could do more with it. Things like using Pure data would be useful if you could integrate that into what App Inventor is about, and maybe that will come at some point, but at the moment musical applications will be somewhat limited and toy-like.

Still. Good fun to play with.

Pythonista 2.0 is a massive leap forward

There’s loads of new things to explore in the latest version. Here’s what’s new: Pythonista is now compatible with all iOS screen sizes — from iPhone 4 to iPad Pro, and everything in-between. For larger projects, you can now use multiple editor tabs to switch between related files more quickly. The Pythonista app extension allows…

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Processing 3 and the new sound library

The last time I used Processing I was messing around with the minim library for sound. Now, in version 3, there’s the new sound library and it looks (and sounds) amazing! I’ve only played with it a little but so far the example code looks really straightforward to read and understand. I might even start…

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