Basically, this app will read the contents of ".plug" files stored in /ext/apps_data/plug_and_play. Those will talk to the device connected via USB and show the data using the app. Just a concept, but I am trying my best to make it a reality! Also, this is my first app, so I will accept some help!
#Plug and Play App
lyric sinew
turbid lagoon
show what data?
lyric sinew
My idea is that you could use a program to send some text (or even black n white images) to the flipper using USB and then it would show. Got it?
turbid lagoon
i dont really see how the "Plug and Play" name conveys that concept, but regardless
i believe https://lab.flipper.net/paint does just about what you want to do
well i guess it doesnt have text, but you can draw or upload images
also what would be the point of ".plug files" in /ext/apps_data/plug_and_play, if the idea is the pc decides what to show on the flipper? if you need files on the flipper to know what to show on flipper, you dont need a pc at all, at that point it would just be a flipper app that displays text/images on the flipper with no usb or pc involved at all?
or do you instead mean that you want the flipper to show something on the pc?
lyric sinew
Ok, so it is a bit hard to explain but so: these Plug files will read the data from the device BUT it can also block data that can be specified inside the file, basically whitelisting or blacklisting. For example, the plug file says that the whitelisted data is "Hello world!". If you send the data to the Flipper using that magic program, the Flipper will show it (or use it in some other way). But if you use something else, the Flipper will reject it and will not do anything. The Plug files will also contain images, for example a menu so the data from the device will be organized. You don't want "Hello ; World", but "Hello" and "World".
lyric sinew
Another example may be a healthbar plugin that may show the HP and the enemy but I dunno.
lyric sinew
i dont really see how the "Plug and Play" name conveys that concept, but regardl...
Or maybe, this could be a thing: it could be used as an HID device when buttons are pressed if specified in the ".plug" file. Maybe some kind of Geometry Dash controller? Because I have never seen one of those.
turbid lagoon
If you ask me, it sounds like your app idea is searching for a purpose and the whole "plug" idea has nothing to do with anything of what you said thus far as to what you want it to do. I suggest you first find a purpose you want to fulfill, and only then think about how an app would be designed to fulfill this purpose
Like it sounds as if you came up with the "plug and play" name, and are trying to come up with ideas for what it should do, and the 3 ideas you shared so far have nothing to do with each other nor with the name, and you're not even sure what purpose the ideas fulfill
Find the purpose first, then ideas as to how to complete it, and at the end only a name for it