bobsynfig / remote-numpad-server

Remote Numpad Server

Introduction

This project is a part of a trio of projects:

• Remote Numpad: Written in Kotlin, this is the client which runs on an Android device and sends the user's inputs to the computer.
• Remote Numpad Server (this project): Written in Kotlin, this is the server that runs on the computer and receives the inputs from the Android device and simulates the key presses.
• Cocoa Native Server: Written in Objective-C, this is the Bluetooth server library for MacOS X. It receives the Bluetooth data and passes it on to the Remote Numpad Server.

Description

This is a cross-platform server written in Kotlin and compatible with Windows, Linux and MacOS X. It is made up of a VirtualNumpad class which execute the inputs, and a set of IConnectionInterface implementations which receive the inputs to be executed.

The only three connection interfaces supported so far are Wi-Fi and classic Bluetooth (RFCOMM) and the Bluetooth HID profile but BLE and Wifi-Direct are probably going to be implemented in the future.

Bluecove is used for the Bluetooth implementation, but in the case of MacOS X, the APIs that Bluecove uses have been obsoleted, so a native library has been written using the JNI (see the project Cocoa Native Server).

Compilation

The project is a Gradle project, so it can be compiled using Gradle or imported by any Gradle-capable and Android-capable IDE (e.g.: Android Studio, IntelliJ, Eclipse) and then compiled.

Bluecove is included in the repo, the other dependencies will be downloaded through Gradle at build-time.

The file src/main/resources/libNativeServer.dylib is obtained by compiling the Cocoa Native Server project and is only required to run the server on MacOS X.

Contributing

This is not a main project for me so help will be very appreciated. Anyone is welcome to contribute to this project (issues, requests, pull requests).