Just a quick announcement that Android Console 0.3.0 has been released on the Google Play store.
This release contains a whole lot of fixes, new features, and nicer UI – see the changes file for details, but in summary:
The UI has been switched to Android’s Material Design
Android Lollipop is now fully supported
We have added support for contacts
Various accessibility and usability fixes have been contributed by Nolan Darilek (thanks!)
We also have clientside GCM support thanks to Leon Handreke! We need to make some changes server-side before GCM can be used, but that’s on the current ToDo-list!
Lots of bugs fixed, as usual, thanks to everyone who reported an issue.
This weekend was spent at IDEA-London where the TADHack-mini London hackathon was going on. In total, there were around 18 different projects being hacked on all day Saturday and Sunday morning, before a 5-minute presentation on Sunday afternoon.
Four different projects used Matrix in one way or another: Matrixbot – a robot controlled through standard messages in a Matrix room – done by Scott Barstow and Anders Brownworth (project code and presentation video and picture). Neil Stratford’s hack included lighting up his roll of LEDs whenever a push-notification hit his Matrix webclient (picture from the presentation).
The Co-Browsify hack by Žilvinas Račyla and Augustinas Bacvinka allows two people to browse the same webpage, with scrolling events being collected and duplicated to the other browser via Matrix (picture from the presentation). Finally, Matt Williams of Metaswitch created a Project Clearwater/Matrix Gateway which enables Project Clearwater/IMS to set up WebRTC calls with any matrix user (project code and pictures from the presentation) – this is the first time we have had a SIP-to-Matrix call (let alone IMS-to-Matrix) set up!
As TADHack sponsors, Matrix had two Parrot Drones to hand out as prizes, and the winners for best Matrix-related hacks are Matt Williams for the Clearwater/Matrix Gateway – and Scott Barstow and Anders Brownworth for Matrixbot! We are also happy that the other two Matrix-related projects were rewarded with prizes from the other sponsors (full list of winners).
All in all it was a very productive weekend, both in terms of tech and also meeting people. Thanks to everyone who participated and especially those who worked on Matrix-related hacks!
Next up is the WebRTC conference and its related Kranky Geek event – which will be happen tomorrow and the day after. See you there!
As of 9am tomorrow, somewhere in the depths of East London (and remotely from around the world), a diaspora of elite VoIP/WebRTC/Telco developers will compete to build the most innovative and impressive communications demos at Tadhack Mini London! Dave, Oddvar and myself are going to be there from the core Matrix.org team, both on-site and online (at #matrix:matrix.org, of course) to provide support – especially to everyone who’s using Matrix APIs in their solution. And as we mentioned before, we’ll even be giving away two Parrot Bebop Drones to the best hacks built using Matrix!
It’s not too late to get involved – the more the merrier. We reckon it’s going to be a really fun weekend, so look forward to chatting to some of you soon!
Both the recording equipment and the video team volunteers were new this year, so some problems were encountered, which means that our lightning talk video unfortunately was lost. However, our talk in the IoT-devroom is now available:
It’s competition time! Matrix is sponsoring TADHack-mini London, which is a two-day hackathon with focus on WebRTC technology, happening on April 11 and 12 at IDEA London. We will award a Parrot Bebop Drone (which itself can be hacked via the ARDroneSDK3) to the two best hacks using Matrix, and we can’t wait to see what kind of ideas people will come up with!
We strongly encourage anyone to get involved – have a look at our Development Resources (scroll down a bit) and have a think of what you can create within the 16-hour timeframe. The reference Matrix web client already supports WebRTC – you can play with this by registering a user via the matrix.org web client (or you can check out the reference web client and run it on your own box), inviting a user to a 1-1 chat (click on their avatar and “start chat”) and then clicking the microphone or video camera icon in the top right to start a voice/video call.
We brainstormed some ideas for further WebRTC/Matrix work in our GSoC (Google Summer of Code) project proposals, for example “Implementing WebRTC support in Mobile apps” and “Multi-way voice and video conferencing”. These are very probably too extensive for the 16-hour hackathon, but might provide some ideas for smaller hacks.
We will be at the event to offer mentoring and help, but you can already start thinking about potential hacks – come talk to us in the #matrix:matrix.org room!
Quick heads up that Matrix.org is going to be at Enterprise Connect next week in Orlando. If you’re attending and interested in open federation between WebRTC solutions, Enterprise UC, messaging/voip apps, the PSTN etc – then needless to say we’d love to talk to you! Please come seek us out, or drop us an email (firstname at matrix.org) or find us on #matrix:matrix.org to schedule a chat in person.
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