GR4 - Computer Prototyping Musical Sketches

Application Requirements

Android phone with OS 4.0.x installed

Accessing Prototype Without A Phone

Download the Android Emulator using these instructions: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html. Then follow this link to install the application on your android emulator: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/devices/emulator.html#ap.  Specifically, look at the section called "Installing Applications on the Emulator" using the .apk file found here: http://mit.edu/saf/Public/ExplodingFlowers.apk.

Accessing Prototype With A Phone (Requires Android SDK 15 Codename Ice Cream Sandwich)

The easiest way to install our app is to scan this barcode with your phone:

Otherwise, navigate to: http://mit.edu/saf/Public/ExplodingFlowers.apk and download this file to your computer.  After, e-mail this file to an E-mail account that you can access on your phone.  Open the e-mail on your phone and press install to begin the download.  If this does not work, then try changing the settings of your phone to allow application downloads from places other than the google play warehouse.

Starting Prototype

To start the application, go to the list of applications installed on your phone and click on the app called MusicalSketches.

If you are running the emulator, press Ctrl+F11 or Ctrl+F12 on Windows or Ctrl+Fn+F11 on Mac to switch between portrait and landscape.

Additional Application Details

Shallow parts of application:

• Currently, all images are extra-high resolution. We plan to scale these to lower resolutions in the future.
• Playback Music is canned.
• Cannot delete notes, can only add notes and delete the entire file.
• Ties/slurs do not work.
• Cannot see more than 7 created notes on screen because you cannot scroll to get more space yet.
• No date or times in the user library titles.
• Rest toggle does not work.
• Record button does not work.
• Note pull down does not work, and you can only pick from eighth, quarter and half note.
• Sometimes the app downloads to phones and sometimes phones don't really want to run the app past the splash screen, but other phones are a big fan of our app and will keep going.