This looks so freakin' awesome, but I'm attempting to use it in DEX mode on a samsung fold4 with a broken inner screen, and it says it's made exclusively for mobile mode, and that makes sense.
However, I would appeal to you to make this awesome app work in desktop mode! IMO, the next big step in computing is going to be android and/or (hopefully one day) mac and linux eating into windows with their desktop modes.
I've been using DEX as my home theatre pc on a fold4, which has a broken inside screen, and it works GREAT hooked up to my tv over the last 7 months. I can seriously see people using their phones as desktop computers in the nearish future and it having a huge impact on the tradition operating system as it is currently understood and utilized.
I can see apple merging macOS and iOS into one seamless operating system and windows extending their new gaming mode to phones. Plug your phone into any monitor to go into a desktop mode. In fact, the monitor can also be the docking station, providing more usb ports and 65W+ power pass through using usbc for video out as well.
This would also probably be a really neat picotron app.
Thank you for such an extended message. I looked into it, and it is not feasible right now to support resizable windows and second launcher activity, which is needed for DeX. Maybe sometime in the future, if there is a strong demand for it.
As for picotron... While it is a neat and underrated project, calling Trinket a "possible app for picotron" is a little bit strange, because it is not an app, but a direct analogue, just for a real hardware instead of "fantasy" one, as they describe it. So it's much more plausible from a logical and also technical point of view to see one day picotron as a trinket app, than vice versa.
I see what you mean with picotron, with it being virtual, and this app being made for hardware.
I'm kind of hoping they will allow more freedom in developing launchers as android desktop becomes more advanced. This would be amazing with it, although it's also just as awesome in mobile mode. 🚀
The keys to my heart are embedded in a slab of ancient amber. TrinketOS holds the key (not my heart key... different key). The only way out is through! That's the key!
this is neat! Is there any chance of a slightly lower android deployment target? I wanted to try this on my handheld but it’s running on API 28 but needed 30
Is there a way to flip the screen? I installed this on an old phone that I use for emulation. I have a Gamesir X5 phone controller and for some reason the USB plug is on the left instead of the right, so with the phone in the controller the screen is upside-down.
This is neat and novel. There's only 2 things I would like to be added or changed:
Consistent pixel sizes and alignments. This is likely due to you leaning on android UI API despite the retro look.
Ditch the Android UI stuff. I am actually undertaking a similar project but with C/C++ and Raylib so it can be cross platform, even for the web. (Doing this can allow things like Lua as a scripting language for the end users to use ;))
Techdweeb sends his regards Thank you for saving us from the retro handheld human hybrids!! (i dont ask, i only answer the call, ALSO i adore this and tysm for making it.)
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I really love trinketOS. Hope for future updates
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Ok. Thanks Wizard!
This looks so freakin' awesome, but I'm attempting to use it in DEX mode on a samsung fold4 with a broken inner screen, and it says it's made exclusively for mobile mode, and that makes sense.
However, I would appeal to you to make this awesome app work in desktop mode! IMO, the next big step in computing is going to be android and/or (hopefully one day) mac and linux eating into windows with their desktop modes.
I've been using DEX as my home theatre pc on a fold4, which has a broken inside screen, and it works GREAT hooked up to my tv over the last 7 months. I can seriously see people using their phones as desktop computers in the nearish future and it having a huge impact on the tradition operating system as it is currently understood and utilized.
I can see apple merging macOS and iOS into one seamless operating system and windows extending their new gaming mode to phones. Plug your phone into any monitor to go into a desktop mode. In fact, the monitor can also be the docking station, providing more usb ports and 65W+ power pass through using usbc for video out as well.
This would also probably be a really neat picotron app.
Thank you for such an extended message.
I looked into it, and it is not feasible right now to support resizable windows and second launcher activity, which is needed for DeX. Maybe sometime in the future, if there is a strong demand for it.
As for picotron... While it is a neat and underrated project, calling Trinket a "possible app for picotron" is a little bit strange, because it is not an app, but a direct analogue, just for a real hardware instead of "fantasy" one, as they describe it. So it's much more plausible from a logical and also technical point of view to see one day picotron as a trinket app, than vice versa.
I see what you mean with picotron, with it being virtual, and this app being made for hardware.
I'm kind of hoping they will allow more freedom in developing launchers as android desktop becomes more advanced. This would be amazing with it, although it's also just as awesome in mobile mode. 🚀
The keys to my heart are embedded in a slab of ancient amber. TrinketOS holds the key (not my heart key... different key). The only way out is through! That's the key!
this is neat! Is there any chance of a slightly lower android deployment target? I wanted to try this on my handheld but it’s running on API 28 but needed 30
Thanks! Yes, next version will support down to API 23
awesome!! thanks, Wizard
Is there a way to flip the screen? I installed this on an old phone that I use for emulation. I have a Gamesir X5 phone controller and for some reason the USB plug is on the left instead of the right, so with the phone in the controller the screen is upside-down.
This is neat and novel. There's only 2 things I would like to be added or changed:
Consistent pixel sizes and alignments. This is likely due to you leaning on android UI API despite the retro look.
Ditch the Android UI stuff. I am actually undertaking a similar project but with C/C++ and Raylib so it can be cross platform, even for the web. (Doing this can allow things like Lua as a scripting language for the end users to use ;))
dope
Just awesome!
Techdweeb sends his regards Thank you for saving us from the retro handheld human hybrids!! (i dont ask, i only answer the call, ALSO i adore this and tysm for making it.)