Service-based remote shell

[alanjds]

This version starts a service-based remote shell.

It does not drop the connection nor freeze on Home button pressed, but have no access to the mActivity:

$ ssh -p8000 admin@192.168.0.14
admin@192.168.0.14's password:
>>> from jnius import autoclass, cast
>>> activity = autoclass('org.renpy.android.PythonActivity').mActivity
>>> activity is None
True

Do you think it is worth the benefit?

[tito]

I'm hesitating about that one. Why the mActivity is not accessible? Lot of tests and usage need the application Context instance (and so, the mActivity). Plyer would be broken as well.

I really love the separation, but this will broke many things :/

[tito]

No ok, It's PythonService.mContext instead of PythonActivity.mActivity. Both are interesting to have. Replacing one by the other sucks.

Could you improve your PR in order to add an UI choice: run as a service or as a standalone application ? And then, listen on SSH and choice either the previous way to work, or yours: it will allows to test android API either within the app, or within a service. That's would be awesome!

[alanjds]

So I can replace PythonActivity.mActivity with PythonService.mContext and it works? Nice.

Will do the UI change. I dont know when :) or if it will be as visually nice as now, but will do.

Thanks for the feedback and the tests.

[alanjds]

I made some progress on this, using a ToggleButton for service-based. Problem is that I found no way to stop the running listenTCP on the Activity version. I am considering to have a splash question to the user. This or start as the Service-version, and have a single-use button to switch to the Activity version.

What would be better? Start with service-based, or ask on every start?

[alanjds]

@tito, I finally managed to work around Twisted Reactor integration, but now this needs a patched Kivy (kivy/kivy#1805), otherwise I have troubles with both reactors (Activity and Service) trying to bind the same port, without waiting the other one to stop listening.

Can you please take a look at kivy/kivy#1805 ?

[alanjds]

The merge of kivy/kivy#1805 closed this one by accident. Is there a way to reopen?

[akshayaurora]

@alanjds sry, this got ignored, could you rebase to master, would be a welcome addition.

[alanjds]

Got it. I do not know when, but will rebase the thing. Thanks.

[kamathln]

@alanjds Waiting keenly 😺

[alanjds]

Oops. Forgot completely. Thanks for the nudge.

[akshayaurora]

Bump!

[alanjds]

I updated the branch with a rebased version to keep the PR. Please "force" the pull if needed. The old branch was renamed to service-old.

But it had not worked here on MacOSX. Seems to be about the upstream changes to the UI. Attached is the the console output.

logs.txt

[INFO   ] [Logger      ] Record log in /Users/alanjds/.kivy/logs/kivy_16-12-24_10.txt
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] v1.9.1
[INFO   ] [Python      ] v2.7.5 (default, Mar  9 2014, 22:15:05)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.0.68)]
[INFO   ] [Factory     ] 179 symbols loaded
[INFO   ] [Image       ] Providers: img_tex, img_imageio, img_dds, img_gif, img_pygame (img_pil, img_ffpyplayer ignored)
[INFO   ] [Window      ] Provider: pygame
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL version <2.1 INTEL-8.28.34>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL vendor <Intel Inc.>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL renderer <Intel HD Graphics 4000 OpenGL Engine>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL parsed version: 2, 1
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Shading version <1.20>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Texture max size <16384>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Texture max units <16>
[INFO   ] [Window      ] virtual keyboard not allowed, single mode, not docked
[WARNING] Call to deprecated function __call__ in /Users/alanjds/.virtualenvs/sandbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/kivy/utils.py line 402.Called from /Users/alanjds/src/git/kivy-remote-shell/service/__init__.py line 5 by <module>().
[INFO   ] [GL          ] NPOT texture support is available
[INFO   ] [Text        ] Provider: pygame
[INFO   ] [Video       ] Provider: null(['video_pygst', 'video_ffmpeg', 'video_ffpyplayer', 'video_pyglet'] ignored)
[INFO   ] [OSC         ] using <multiprocessing> for socket
[INFO   ] [Base        ] Start application main loop
[ERROR  ] [Rst         ] error while loading text
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/alanjds/.virtualenvs/sandbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/kivy/uix/rst.py", line 593, in _load_from_text
    document.walkabout(visitor)
  File "/Users/alanjds/.virtualenvs/sandbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docutils/nodes.py", line 174, in walkabout
    if child.walkabout(visitor):
  File "/Users/alanjds/.virtualenvs/sandbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docutils/nodes.py", line 174, in walkabout
    if child.walkabout(visitor):
  File "/Users/alanjds/.virtualenvs/sandbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docutils/nodes.py", line 174, in walkabout
    if child.walkabout(visitor):
  File "/Users/alanjds/.virtualenvs/sandbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docutils/nodes.py", line 166, in walkabout
    visitor.dispatch_visit(self)
  File "/Users/alanjds/.virtualenvs/sandbox/lib/python2.7/site-packages/kivy/uix/rst.py", line 943, in dispatch_visit
    assert(self.text == '')
AssertionError

(then I close the window)

[INFO   ] [Base        ] Leaving application in progress...