Droid Does: Software-Based Harmony With Competing Operating Systems [Video]

by Quentyn Kennemer on May 7th, 2010 at 11:20 am

Now this is just plain cool. His name is Steffest, and he coded a music app on three different operating systems – Android (Java), iPhone (Objective-C), and Windows Mobile (C#) – and made perhaps the coolest guitar I’ve ever seen (at least for a phone geek’s standards).

While it isn’t pretty on the hardware side, he strapped together 5 different devices (a couple of which seems to be Android-based) onto a piece of wood and routed the audio from each device to a battery-powered speaker. He added that sound latency issues was the reason he couldn’t code one app and deploy it to all 3 operating systems.

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The end result is a very smooth-sounding “hack” of sorts. He gives us a demo of the song Cracklin Rosie and – for the type of setup he’s put together – it doesn’t sound half bad at all. He’ll be presenting the device that he calls “The Phone Guitar” at MobileCampBrussels, a conference about mobile cross-platform development.

For more details, take a gander at his blog. [via Gizmodo]

  • Covert

    that was so damn impressive!

  • MarvinAndroid

    Yeah, I’m impressed. That takes a lot of talent (musically and physically). It sounded pretty damn good.

  • JiMMaR

    someone is too rich too :P
    can I get one phone ? :D

  • Johnny TSUnami

    Talent perhaps, to much frikin time on his hands….YES

  • http://www.jonnylam.com Jonathan

    Oh, c’mon, that form factor is just dying for a virtual banjo implementation. He’s even got the fifth-string peg, sort of.

  • Rhonda

    I agree with JiMMaR…
    gotta say though…pretty talented!

  • swehes

    That is pretty sweet. Wonder if he has the app for Android. It looked like the main phone he was using was an Iphone.

  • http://www.omgandroid.com OMG Android App Reviews

    Thats really cool.

    A union of smart phones.

  • observer

    1 guitar with one keyboard would have been easier and cheaper. imho :)

  • Me

    well it looks like theres a Nexus One there….

  • Jonathan

    too bad the most used tool is the guitar app for the iphone. Multitouch for Android leaves a lot to be desired.

    -happy N1 owner



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