Android/BOINC development items

Some remaining development tasks. Please contact me (David Anderson) and post to boinc_dev if you want to help.

Short Term:

• BOINC Client
  • Higher hysteresis for battery level and temp control to avoid frequent suspend/resumes.
  • Expose values for battery level and temp suspend and resume (hysteresis) to preferences.
• Menu should have controls for
  • Suspend/resume computing
  • Exit (shut down everything - GUI, BOINC client, and apps) (Completed)
    • This should be shown for all the tabs. Currently only shown on Status Tab. (Completed)
• Optionally show icon in notifications (top bar) showing whether BOINC is running apps (Working WCG - M)
  • Add preference for whether to show this icon (Working WCG - M)
• Tasks tab
  • Show elapsed time for each task (Working WCG - M)
  • If a task is touched, expand height of task to show additional information and actions that can be taken:(Working WCG - M)
    • Display Project Name [information] (Working WCG - M)
    • Display User Friendly Application Name [information] (Working WCG - M)
    • Display deadline [information] (Working WCG - M)
    • Abort Task [button/action] (Working WCG - M)
    • Suspend/Resume Task [button/action] (Working WCG - M)
• Transfers tab
  • Retry (Completed)
  • Abort (Completed)
  • If backed off, time until retry (Completed)
• Preferences tab
  • Use at most X% of processors (Completed)
  • Suspend work when non-BOINC CPU usage above X (Completed)
  • Use at most X% of CPU time (Completed)
  • Suspend work when battery below X% (default 95%)
  • The preferences page needs to be reorganized, with the main X options shown before the "Show Advanced Preferences" option. SAP needs to be the last item on the default view.
  • The "Show Advanced Preferences" Needs to be a twisty tab or something other than a check box if we are showing additional options below it.
  • When changing the value of an advanced option, there needs to be a cancel button put next to the Ok. (Completed)
• Projects Tab (Working Joachim)
  • Include logo in list view
  • Show Update in list view
  • Pressing project shows new Activity with following information:
    • User account info
    • Project links
    • Controls (i.e. detach, suspend, no new tasks)
    • project description
• Event Log Tab (Completed)
  • A tab is needed to show the log file. Should be called Event Log. (Completed)
  • Log file display needs to include timestamp (Completed)
  • Only needs client messages – not manager messages (Completed)
  • Button needed for ‘copy all messages’ (to paste into email/forums for help) (Completed)
  • Remove retrieval from ClientStatusMontitor? (Completed)
  • UI: Append new messages to the local message array and only send an update event if a new message was added or an old message deleted. (Completed)
• Project attach
  • show entries of all_projects_list.xml in addition to manually entering project URL. (Completed)
  • usage of get_project_config (min pwd length, user name vs email, account creation enabled) (Completed)
  • include terms-of-use (Completed)
  • When attempting to login, there needs to be a link that will open that projects "forgot password/Username" Page. The link should go to <project url>/get_passwd.php (Working WCG -M)
  • A link should show under the last attached project to attach to another project. For example, if you are attached to 3 projects, the forth line should be attach to project. (Working WCG -M)
• Power Management
  • Set Android power management according to client status. Preventing CPU throttling when display is off. (Completed)

Mid Term:

• Use Action Bar with Client computation status and controls from Menu. (Requires Android 3.0)
• Support attach to account manager
• Add SD card support in client
  • move BOINC's projects/ directory to SD card an force move of binaries into slots (executable)
  • think about how to handle storage status and preferences of clients
• Reconsider how BOINC client retrieves device state on Android (i.e. battery: charger, temp and level ; network: wifi state). Problematic because location of this information varies among devices/vendors/versions.
  • Possible approach: retrieve information through Java SDK, universal for all devices. Write to a file and let BOINC client retrieve information from there. Needs security mechanism in case Java application is off but Client is running (timestamp?)