Hey all,

I've finally pulled this release #253 together and it's up now at:

http://droidparty.net/

Two big new things I am excited about:

1. Muddu Kishan added the ability to load patches from a specially

formatted zipfile (".dpz"). This means you can now zip up your droidparty compatible patches and send them to people - if they have PdDroidParty installed on their device it will automatically unpack and run the .dpz file for them in droidparty. To use it:

• Make a zip of your droidparty patch with a folder at the top level,

not just the files inside e.g. zip -r MyPatch.zip MyPatch

• Give the zipfile an extension of .dpz instead of zip. `mv MyPatch.zip

Mypatch.dpz`

• Optionally include a comment like "version: 99" in your

droidparty_main.pd patch and it will prompt to overwrite different versions.

The app will pick up .dpz files via email, HTTP download, or on the sdcard. I need to document this better but attached is an example, or you can tap on this link on your phone running droidparty for more demos:

http://droidparty.net/dpztests/

I have a fun idea of making a repository of .dpz files available at droidparty.net but I am not sure if I'll get around to that. You can easily upload your .dpz files at puredata.info anyway if you like and downloads will work from there. I just love how small .dpz synth packages are!

2. In this release I worked hard at getting droidparty receiving

broadcast UDP packets. My use-case is syncing time signatures between instances running on different devices on the same WiFi network, but there are probably other fun ones like sharing slider state between devices or some other type of information during live performance (chord/scale context?). See the attached demos "netro-example" which syncs time between devices on a network, and "droidnetreceive" which syncs a slider movement. The time syncing one includes a latency adjustment slider which you'll probably need as the network packets generally go faster than Android's awful audio stack.

Here is a very rough video of this working with two WiFi synced CanOfBeats patches:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5tlEZwttBM

Sorry about the terrible quality video. There was some whiskey involved.

I should really make some more videos.

Have fun!

Cheers,

Chris.