Title: Android phone and Unix
Author: Solène
Date: 06 September 2016
Tags: android emacs
Description:
If you have an android Phone, here are two things you may like:
### Org-mode <=> Android ###
First is the MobileOrg *app* to synchronize your calendar/tasks
between your computer org-mode files and your phone. I am using
org-mode since a few months, I think I do pretty basics things with it
like having a todo list with a deadline for each item. Having it in my
phone calendar is a good enhancement. I can also add todo items from
my phone to show it on my computer.
The phone and your computer get synced by publishing a special format
of org files for the mobile on a remote server. Mobile Org supports
ssh, webdav, dropbox or sdcard. I'm using ssh because I own a server
and I can reliabily have my things connected together there on a
dedicated account. Emacs will then use tramp to publish/retrieve the
files.
[Official MobileOrg
website](https://github.com/matburt/mobileorg-android/wiki)
[MobileOrg on Google
Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matburt.mobileo
rg)
### Read/Write sms from a remote place ###
Second useful thing I like with my android phone is being able to
write and send sms (+ some others things but I was most interested by
SMS) from my computer. A few services already exists but they work
with "cloud" logic and I don't want my phone to be connected to one
more service. The MAXS *app* provides me what I need : ability to
read/write the sms of my phone from the computer **without web
browser** and relying on my own services. MAXS connects the phone to a
XMPP account and you set a whitelist of XMPP mails able to send
commands, that's all. Here are a few examples of use:
To write a SMS I just need to speak to the jabber account of my phone
and write
sms send firstname lastname hello how are you ?
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