Announcing libfossphone

[Subsentient]

@Subsentient I think it's a bold idea and a lot of work for one person.

Shouldn't you ask some devs if they will use it before you start work ?

I'm fairly certain it will be picked up by somebody, but even if nobody else does, I'm going to be using it as the framework for my own mobile call application (I'm planning to allow writing SMS and answering calls from your PC at some point).

Most of the *really* hard stuff is done already thanks to ModemManager-glib's API. The big advantage of libfossphone is that it doesn't require a ton of boilerplate and specialized knowledge for other programmers to get going. The existing ModemManager API is quite painful to use and takes a lot of code to do simple tasks.

The part that will be most difficult will be MMS. The MMS protocol seems to be poorly documented, and the only reference implementation I have is written in Haskell, a language I can't even read.

I made significant progress on libfossphone this evening, so you shouldn't have to wait too long to see a working prototype.