Android and USB footswitch

[Klaus major-k]

Hi Bill,

> Am 25.05.2023 um 17:41 schrieb William Prothero via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> Klaus,
> I'm a musician/hobbyist too. Check out iGigbook. It does all that stuff and it's cheap.

thank you, but what the webpage does not tell is, if it supports footswitches and if one can "easily" 
import own PDF files from the device itself!?

And I wanted create this by myself, just for the fun of it. :-)
So my questions are still unanswered....

> Bill Prothero
> 
> William A. Prothero, PhD
> Prof Emeritus, Dept of Earth Science
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> 
>> On May 25, 2023, at 8:23 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi friends,
>> 
>> I'm still an active musician (bass guitar) and am currently playing in four bands.
>> 
>> Nowadays bulky music stands on stage are OUT and tablets are IN!
>> So I am considering to create a little app for myself to display PDF leadsheets 
>> (= lyrics and chord symbols) on an Andorid tablet, which I still have to buy. :-)
>> 
>> There are some USB footswitches, and I would like to use one of them to browse 
>> through the (multipage) PDFs (next page, previous page).
>> 
>> Anyone knows if these switches will act like an "external keyboard", means if they 
>> will just send any RAWKEY that I could catch in LC? 
>> Or will I need something created with LCB to do so?
>> 
>> Thanks for any hint!
>> 
>> P.S.
>> Since PDFs are not accessible via "mobilepickmedia" are there ANY other ways to add 
>> some PDFs later without having to download them from some URL?

Best

Klaus

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