Snake-4-Sony

Basically, I don't recommend buying Sony products, due crappy support and services. Think twice before you buy.

Long story short. After bought my camera Sony Alpha A6300 (ILCE6300B), I realized that it contains the Android subsystem used to run apps from the Sony PlayMemories Camera App Store. So I had idea to create some fancy software for it.

Project

Main goal of this project was to create simple snake-like game and deploy on the Sony Alpha camera. Based on:

• libGDX framework - https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx
• Reverse engineering Sony PlayMemories Camera Apps https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE

Sony Android cameras

link

Release

• version 1.0

Game input:

• UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT
• For Android smartphone, use screen swipe
• For Sony camera use, control wheel
• For Android TV, use remote control - "item select" (arrows)

Installation/Run

• download recent release
• Android devices:
  • via ADB
    • download and install Android SDK
    • enable ADB on the Android device
      • for enable ABD on Sony camera described below
    • open console / terminal
    • go to the location of APK apk file
    • use command for install app: adb install snake.apk
    • use command for run app: adb shell monkey -p pl.sly.game.snake4sony -c android.intent.category.LAUNCHER 1
    • use command for uninstall app: adb shell pm uninstall pl.sly.game.snake4sony
  • or just regular APK installation on your device
• MS Windows/macOS/Linux:
  • install JRE
  • on *nix system:./run.sh
  • or just $ java -jar snake.jar

Camera details:

• LCD: 2.95 inch
• API version: 15
• Android version: 4.1.2
• Android SDK version: 16
• Android incremental version: 70
• OpenGL version: 2
• Screen: 854x480
• Frame buffer: 640x480

Tested on:

• macOS Catalina 10.15.7
• Camera: Sony Alpha A6300 | Android 4.1.2
• Android TV: Sony KDL-55W755C | Android 9.0
• Smartphone: Samsung SM-A310F | Android 7.0

Issues:

• on Sony camera: some issues and artifacts with rendering https://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/ci/nightlies/docs/api/com/badlogic/gdx/graphics/g2d/BitmapFont.html

Screens

Run

• On Sony Alpha Android:

  • configure WiFi connection on your camera
  • install https://github.com/ma1co/OpenMemories-Tweak on your camera to activate ADB
  • in camera menu, go to Application list and run OpenMemories Tweak
  • go to the tab: Developer
  • check Enable Wifi and Enable ADB
    • here receive IP address of your camera
  • on your OS go to the terminal and type: adb connect YOUR_CAMERA_IP
  • deploy app via Android Studio

• On Desktop:

  • Run application from desktop->DesktopLauncher.java by click on Run
  • in case of issues configure asset folder:

• On Android TV

  • check IP of your Android TV
    • IP Scanner tool on macOS
  • enable ADB link
  • on your OS go to the terminal and type: adb connect YOUR_TV_IP
  • deploy app via Android Studio

• On Android Device

  • deploy as regular Android application