Re: Android, busybox and wget

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 17:36, Voytek Eymont <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 11:03 am, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 16:34, Voytek Eymont <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The same way you usually would with busybox: either make wget a
>> symlink to busybox, or invoke 'busybox wget'.
>
> dumb me, I was searching for a 'busybox' directory rather than trying to
> execute it, doh.  'multi function binary', I see

Heh.  Don't feel dumb: unless you have done embedded systems work
before, the method is pretty uncommon out on the desktop.  (Not
unknown though; look for it in /bin and /sbin on Linux :)


> if I run this on the cell phone, there is no real need to email as such,
> how would I create a text note to access on the phone as a note ?

You pretty much can't, without running inside the Android environment
as a full application.  Which, in the circumstances, is pretty much
what I would advise you to go down the path of building.  Not quite as
easy as a bit of scripting, but much more robust overall.  A service
could easily provide the scheduling you are after.

> better still, create a ical/vcal note and put into calendar directly?

You would need to inject it into whatever sqlite database or whatever
that the calendar application used.

You might actually find it easier to have the phone push it up to the
Google apps side, using their network API, and have it sync back down
to the phone. ;)

Daniel
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