Android Question Samsung Galaxy Store ?

[MitchBu]

It seems the Samsung Galaxy Store accepts only apps that use one of their technologies.

https://developer.samsung.com/mobile/galaxy-sdk-getting-started.html

I was wondering if anybody have already tried to incorporate some of Samsung technology in his app ?

 

[Erel]

Integrating the S Pen Remote SDK looks quite simple: https://developer.samsung.com/galaxy-spen-remote/download.html

If someone has the relevant hardware then I can help with accessing it.

 

[MitchBu]

Hi Erel,

I think my son has a Samsung Note, with the S-Pen. I can test on his device.

But if needed, I can get a used Note for more extensive tests.

If you could indeed help with implementing the S-Pen, that would open the Samsung Galaxy Store to all interested B4A developers.

 

[Erel]

Download the SDK: https://developer.samsung.com/galaxy-spen-remote/download.html
Copy the two jars to the additional libraries folder.

Run this code:

#AdditionalJar: sdk-v1.0.0.jar
#AdditionalJar: spenremote-v1.0.1.jar
Sub Process_Globals
    Private SpenRemote As JavaObject
End Sub

Sub Globals

End Sub

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
    SpenRemote = SpenRemote.InitializeStatic("com.samsung.android.sdk.penremote.SpenRemote").RunMethod("getInstance", Null)
    Log($"Air motion: ${SpenRemote.RunMethod("isFeatureEnabled", Array(1))}"$)
    Log($"Button: ${SpenRemote.RunMethod("isFeatureEnabled", Array(0))}"$)
    Dim Callback As Object = SpenRemote.CreateEventFromUI("com.samsung.android.sdk.penremote.SpenRemote$ConnectionResultCallback", "Connection", Null)
    Dim ctxt As JavaObject
    ctxt.InitializeContext
    If SpenRemote.RunMethod("isConnected", Null) = False Then
        SpenRemote.RunMethod("connect", Array(ctxt, Callback))
    End If
End Sub

Sub Connection_Event (MethodName As String, Args() As Object) As Object
    Log(MethodName)
    Return Null
End Sub

It will crash on a non-Samsung device.

 

[MitchBu]

Superb. I appreciate your assistance.

It will crash on a non-Samsung device.

Is there any way to detect the device name, in order to prevent execution of the crashing code, on non Samsung devices ?

 

[Erel]

Lets start and see that it actually works on a Samsung device.

 

[MitchBu]

OK.

 

[MitchBu]

Here is the result:

Runs smoothly on a Samsung phone Note 10.

Crashes on a 2016 phone chip tablet Samsung Galaxy Tab A.

I hope the Galaxy Store screens devices to know which ones are compliant to their current technology.

I have used the method described here to get the manufacturer name of the device:

get device model name

Is there a way to get the device & model name of the device that is running the software?

www.b4x.com

That way, I run the code in Activity.Create only if I find "samsung".

And yet, a Try Catch takes care of Samsung devices that do not support S-Pen.

 

[Erel]

What is the output of the Log(MethodName) line? If it is onSuccess then you can get the SpenUnitManager and add listeners with JavaObject (https://developer.samsung.com/galaxy-spen-remote/s-pen-remote-sdk.html)

 

[MitchBu]

MethodName: onSuccess

I was able to submit to the Galaxy app Store.

There was a last detail to add to the manifest:
<uses-permission android:name="com.samsung.android.providers.context.permission.WRITE_USE_APP_FEATURE_SURVEY"/>

I found that here:

Android app can't submit on Samsung Galaxy Apps (how to include Samsung SDK?)

The Samsung Galaxy Apps store is not accepting my app for submission. There is a category section where there are two fields for selecting a category, I have set the both to Main Category but when I

stackoverflow.com

I was then able to submit the app for review. Hopefully it will become live.