PiedPiper-VOIP-APP

PiedPiper is a Android VOIP application (name inspired from the homonym TV Show) developed for the Human Computer Interaction university course.

In this project has been tried to add a new small features to a standard phone's call manager and measure the effect on the user experience.

The new feature introduced allows a caller, on call without response, to leave a message (textual or vocal) to the called.

The experiments showed a good index of approval of the proposed functionality.

Dependences

• app/libs/

  • liblinphone-sdk (version 3.2.7)

• app/src/"..."/piedpiper/Helpers/

  • AppHelper, VolleyMultipartRequest, VolleySingleton
  • LruBitmapCache

• A VOIP server (Asterisk)

• A PHP server (Apache2)

Configuration

• Set on app/src/"..."/piedpiper/Controllers/Services/VoipService.java, line 118, the IP of asterisk and php server.

• Set Asterisk: Hello World Tutorial.

• Copy .conf files from /server/asterisk/ to /etc/asterisk/

• Set Apache2 with PHP and ensure that the directory /var/www/html/ is writable by www-user.

• Copy .php files from /server/apache/ to /var/www/html/.

2 Phones Configuration

• Add John or Jane Doe to phone's contacts.

• Set the other number as Piedpiper user at the beginning of the application.

• Start a call.

1 Phone Configuration

• Change on Asterisk configurations files the '100' account to John or Jane Doe number and add it to phone's contacts.

• Delete the other configurations with that number.

• Set the other number as Piedpiper user at the beginning of the application.

• Listen the 'hello world' record.