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PSN - Display friends status?

For the PS3/Xbox fanboys out there.

Can anyone think of a widget (Queen Bee?) that can pull the status of your respective friends from sony/Microsoft servers and display it on one of the desktops? Almost like their status on Gtalk/Skype but for their console?

I know you can view this information via a browser by going to:
http://uk.playstation.com/psn/ and signing on.

This would be beneficial as it allows one to know when to log on for multiplayer games. Saves turning on the console just to check

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good idea i for one second your motion!

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Sounds like a great idea

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Hi, my name is Nicolas, I'm from Argentina

I developed an API to access PSN information

I'm not here to sell you anything, I can contribute with anything you need.

Here is some of my work

(some URL might not work properly as PSN is under maintenance today Sept 21st)

My API Project

Code:

http://www.psnapi.com.ar

Online API (1 call every 30 seconds)

Code:

http://www.psnapi.com.ar/ps3/api/psn.asmx

Trophy Site

Code:

http://www.nextgengamers.com.ar/ps3/trophies

I also have a ocuple of applications and widgets on ANDROID

My Blog

Code:

http://indiesoftware.wordpress.com/

You can contact me if you need anything

Nicolas

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wow would be amazing to see something like that on the n900
if only i wasnt an idiot! yeah that would rock

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a port of PS3 Trophies & PSN Friends PRO v1.0 on the n900 would be great! possible?

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I dont know which language does the N900.
I use JAVA for Android and C# for Desktop and Web APP

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Originally Posted by benexus (Post 822651)

I dont know which language does the N900.

You can develop using plain C (GTK+), C++ (GTKmm or Qt) and Python (GTK+ and Qt). There's also the option of using WRT (HTML+JavaScript).

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Originally Posted by rfa (Post 898942)

or this: http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2010/...roid-handsets/

Great :) That one probably uses an "official" API from the Sony servers (even if undocumented / not public). Post again here when the app is released, so I can tcpdump me some details on how it works :)

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Originally Posted by thp (Post 899300)

The PlayStation Official App Now Available For Download.

I hope this help.

I would like to see this app for the N900, but realistic speaking is more easy to see this app on symbian and then someone could ported to maemo 5.

Grettings.

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why not a fb widget like that, not the default one, but something that shows the latest status update for each contact ..... kind of like on motoblur...

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Well is there a remote control for xbox360 and (i guess i saw it before) an app for gamertags, for ps3 just have a jailbreaker.

Anyway, i write a comment in the article is this app would be on others plataforms, and people is asking if is being ported to symbian, i hope they answer.

Grettings.

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theres a remote control for pretty much everything via irreco, the xbox one is jus an individually tailored example. as for ps3 we can hack it, use its control pads, use our n900 as a hid (havent quite managed it myself) and view our trophy collection. pretty good going for a phone i reckon, lets see symbian do that then complain they have it better.

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Anyone interested in taking this idea further on the N9?

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Potentially me. I have a serious shortage of freetime, but I've been looking for a dev project to get into phone app development, and now I have an N9...

I have no Qt experience, but I've been coding for most of my life and have some sort of design sense. I'll see what I can do.

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Top man. Let me know if you need help with the UI Design/Grapics.

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Originally Posted by afaq (Post 1115215)

Top man. Let me know if you need help with the UI Design/Grapics.

I'll try to get a Qt hello world done this evening, then start looking at the API and so forth.

When I get to that stage: feedback and a second pair of eyes is always useful!

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Hmm. This isn't as straightforward as I thought. It's been 30 minutes and I'm finding that the Hello World tutorial built into Qt Creator is itself broken.

Almost immediately I encountered an issue: I'm not able to access the Design window due to a missing dependency:

Code:

import com.nokia.meego 1.0

That's quite frustrating, because I was looking forward to following a couple of tutorials and then just start placing objects and writing logic.

I did find a thread on forums.meego.com which discusses the issue described above, with a useful link from ossipena. I'm fine with writing objects in config (rather than an IDE) once I know what I'm doing with the language, but for getting started it would be a real boost to productivity if I could just draw some stuff and see auto-generated Qml come out of the back.

Spent a long time googling to try to fix this and dropped by one or two IRC channels, where people were polite but didn't have specific information to help me (not a complaint, just a report of how it went).

I think I'll leave this until next week when channels might be better-populated. I am still interested though. I've also started looking at PSN API stuff, but it's starting to look a little harder then I'd hoped. Stil think I can do it though.

Need to get enough Qt together to put together something which can authenticate with PSN, perhaps using psnapi.org's stuff.

Once that's in place, depending how easy it is to get data from the API into Qt (far from impossible I hope) it shouldn't be too hard to start getting stuff like my trophies, my friends, my friend's trophies... we'll see.

...and this all depends on how busy I am at work. Some days I can't come home and look at a computer any more :p

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Originally Posted by shallimus (Post 1115392)

Almost immediately I encountered an issue: I'm not able to access the Design window due to a missing dependency:

Try using the Qt Simulator target or Harmattan target directly (i.e. Simulator if you want to test on your Desktop, Harmattan to directly deploy to a device). The com.nokia.meego import is for the Qt Quick Components, and this isn't (yet?) available in the Desktop Qt target.

For specific questions, it's probably better to open a new thread over at Qt DevNet or the MeeGo Forums (or even Nokia Developer) instead of reusing existing threads.

As for the PSN app, you should be able to reuse the backend code of my app and just put a QML UI on top of it :)

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Anyone interested in taking this project up for the N9 :D ?

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I asked so many times for this too :)

I wonder why is Sony not realising the official one for us!