[Bradford] Lock down android tablet for public use

[Brian]

I agree that a browser based application would be good because some mark-up could be used to facilitate the required functionality. Keyboard shortcuts would have to be blocked though. It is a pity that this question was not put earlier, it might have been taken up by one on the participants at last weekend's "Leeds Hack".
Brian



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 From: David Spencer <baildon.research at googlemail.com>
To: bradford <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> 
Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2012, 10:57
Subject: Re: [Bradford] Lock down android tablet for public use
 
Not sure this is on the right track, but here we go anyway.  Using a
browser as a front end would do what they need and zina
http://www.pancake.org/zina/ comes close on the requirements though
might take some fiddling to do per-track images and text instead of
per-album.  Use the old version to avoid need for database.

Even better, you might prefer to use that as inspiration to knock up
something even simpler yourself.  It's not hard to envisage browser
buttons that use trivial CGI scripts to control playback via mpc & mpd
/ whatever, the images & text would be trivial, and with static html
you could even host the content locally in flat files on each tablet
(no need for even a local httpd).  Just up your street Mr Carpenter
:-)

> Please save paper and only print this email if you have to.

Hey, you could quit the band and go solo with a Sting tribute act :P

Tarra
-D.

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