GSoC/2020/StatusReports/AniketKumar

Mentors

• Simon Redman
• Piyush Aggarwal
• Philip Cohn-cort
• Nicolas Fella

Summary

KDE Connect has recently launched an SMS Messaging app for the desktop which uses KDE Connect to synchronize all the existing conversations from the remote device. In its current state, it can:-

• Show a list of existing conversations and the corresponding conversation history.
• Send and display SMS.
• Send SMS to only existing contacts and conversations on the remote device.
• Display (not send) group messages.

However, It is very limited to MMS and can only support showing text. It cannot send and display pictures, audio, video and other kinds of attachments, also it cannot reply to multi-target conversations. Considering the importance of sharing multimedia files and group messages, the SMS client becomes very limited in use. This project aims to improve MMS support with the integration of sending multi-target MMS by re-working the current implementation of sending SMS and UI support using Qt Multimedia library.

By the end of this project, SMS client will be capable of sending and receiving MMS, will be able to send multi-target MMS with the capability to view pictures, video/audio in SMS app and the capability to download them..
GSoC 2020 Proposal for Improving MMS Support to the KDE Connect SMS app

Building KDE Connect

Please follow the community guide page on how to build KDE Connect.

Milestones

1) Support to send plain text MMS.

2) Support to send Group SMS and MMS.

3) Adding SMS/MMS notifications support in android app

4) Transfering MMS attachment's as thumbnails from android to desktop and displaying in UI.

5) Downloading original attachment from remote.

6) Integrating media Player into KDE Connect SMS App.

7) Adding Support to select and send files as attachments from desktop SMS client.

Work Report

Milestone 1 : Support to send send plain text MMS.

• Status - Complete
• Patch 1 - Adding MMS support in android app.
• Blog link - Adding support to send plain text MMS in KDE Connect
• Demo Video:- <embedvideo service="youtube">https://youtu.be/ECMpt7idLnc</embedvideo>

Milestone 2 : Support to send send group SMS and MMS.

• Status - Complete
• Patch 2 - Enabling multi-target support in KDE Connect desktop client.
• Demo:-

Milestone 3 : Adding SMS/MMS notifications support in android app

• Status - Complete
• Patch 3 - Adding SMS notifications support in android app.
• Blog link - Adding support to send plain text MMS in KDE Connect
• Demo:-

SMS notifictions

Milestone 4 : Transfering MMS attachment's as thumbnails from android to desktop and displaying in UI.

• Status - complete
• Patch 4 - Adding support to read images and video files from MMS database and extracting thumbnails to push to desktop.
• Patch 5 - Patch to extract optional attachment fields and displaying the thumbnails in UI.
• Demo:-

Image file

Audio clip

video file

Milestone 5 : Requesting and forwarding original attachment from android to desktop.

• Status - complete
• Blog link - Downloading original attachments from android device.
• Patch 6 - Desktop side patch to request and download the original attachment.
• Patch 7 - Android side patch to receive the request and send the attachment to the desktop.
• Demo Video:- <embedvideo service="youtube">https://youtu.be/5XG7DftmXos</embedvideo>

Milestone 6 : Integrating media Player into KDE Connect SMS App.

• Status - complete
• Blog link - Integrating media Player into KDE Connect SMS App.
• Patch 6 - Desktop side patch to integrate media player into SMS app.
• Demo -

Integrated Video player

Integrated Image viewer

• Demo Video:- <embedvideo service="youtube">https://youtu.be/WUuAx8jEdyk</embedvideo>

Milestone 7 : Adding Support to select files, record audio and send as attachments from desktop SMS client.

• Status - complete
• Blog link - []
• Patch 8 - Selecting and sending attachments to remote device
• Patch 9 - Added support to extract attachments from network packet and send it as MMS.
• Patch 10 - Added support to record audio and send as MMS.
• Demo -

Before selecting attachments

After selecting attachments

List of patches

• Patch 1 - Adding MMS support in android app.
• Patch 2 - Enabling multi-target support in KDE Connect desktop client.
• Patch 3 - Adding notifications support in android app.
• Patch 4 - Adding support to read images and video files from MMS database and extracting thumbnails to push to desktop.
• Patch 5 - Patch to extract optional attachment fields and displaying the thumbnails in UI.
• Patch 6 - Desktop side patch to request and download the original attachment with multimedia integration.
• Patch 7 - Android side patch to receive the request and send the attachment to the desktop.
• Patch 8 - Selecting and sending attachments to remote device.
• Patch 9 - Support to extract attachments from network packet and send it as MMS.
• Patch 10 - Added support to record audio and send as MMS.
• Patch 11 - Implemented settings packet to send user sms-mms preferences from android to desktop app.
• Patch 12 - Added support to receive settings packet and inform to the UI.

Other small patches

• Patch 13 Fix Apn Settings for non supported devices.
• Patch 14 Fixed error message by replacing TextArea.wrap to TextEdit.Wrap.
• Patch 15 Fixed MmsSentReceiver Class not being invoked.

Weekly meeting notes

• Important meeting notes

Contacts

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• KDE Identity