Where do I find the Mod Live SDK?

[Taurean Dyer]

Hey everyone, 

Joined a bit late to the party.  I can't seem to figure out where to start to develop for my Mod Live running 3.1.1.  The SDK i see on github only seems to do Jet/Snow.  Is this the right SDK and is backwards compatible, or is there another?  If there is another, may someone please share that, the Style guide (link seems to be lost) and android screen cast instructions?

Also, i read somewhere that the Mod Live can use the Engage API.  How do i get that working.  

I'm still an andriod dev newbie, so I may need more simplified instructions :).  

Thanks!

[Andrew Holguin]

I'm hoping I can find an old download of the original SDK somewhere. I reached out to Recon via email yesterday, but apparently they don't archive their SDKs. 

[Andrew Holguin]

If anyone is still looking, I found some stuff in the Wayback Machine. You'll want to poke around a bit and see the different iterations, but I found at least some docs and an SDK Jar.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140306145258/http://reconinstruments.com/developers/getting-started/sdk-documentation

[Eric Delorme]

Hi Andrew, 

have you find an SDK archive somewhere ? Thanks a lot.

[Gary Evans]

Hi 

I'd love to get access to the SDK, but can't find it anywhere - is there anyone who can help me please?

Thanks, Gary

[Andrew Holguin]

I had to do a bunch of searches in archive.org to cobble together something. If I can find what I have on my old hard drive somewhere I'll post a link.

[jeremy smith]

HI all,

Struggling as most others are to find the elusive SDK to develop the Reconjet glasses. All the web sites quoted are no longer accessable. So hopfully if someone has it on their drive and would be kind enough to share with me (cayle...@aol.com) it would be appeciated.

regards

jeremy

[Andrew Holguin]

Jeremy,

Archive.org is operational, and has a considerable amount of snapshots. Some of those have links to the developer SDKs. You're better off diving in there and hunting them down, as they will also have documentation specific to that particular build of the SDK and the Android OS at the time.

[jeremy smith]

Thanks for replying its appreciated.  I have been using the archive.org and have found and number of instances i.e,  recons original web sites etc which do have links to the SDK on the web pages , annoyingly all those links so far have been broken or missing. I will keep hunting .

[jeremy smith]

 found ReconSDK.jar and the recon ADB

many thanks

[nis samis]

i am a bit happy that people are still at least trying :(.

[jeremy smith]

OK, the glasses come without the main software on them. You need to activate the glass via an app which no longer is on line. A program called "Recon Uplink Desktop" is needed to comunicate with the glass. Has anyone got a copy they can share? I need to know how the activation works. As it stands the ADB cannot recognise the glass  as the glasses require activation. Therefore you can not to go into USB debugging mode. ehm!.

[nis samis]

you can not make uplink to work, needs authentication with the site to work...

[jeremy smith]

  If anyone could assist with recon uplink desktop 1.1. Its a long shot I know. I would not be able to register as the website is down. However looking at the USB handshaking, the glasses do send out a packet of data when , plug them into the PC, presumably to the uplink desktop program which should respond when it recieves it, and just maybe will allow me to activate it without registering in the web which you cannot or at least let me see what data it sends the glasses. The data the glasses sends from USB when it is connected is P0000000888888 followed by Reconinstruments JET 1.0 291551829. Without a responce the Glasses send out requests a further 3 times before stopping the USB bus.

[jeremy smith]

The file present on my device are in the picture. If anyone has a pair of Snow2 or ReconJet that is activated, could you have look to see if you have the same file list as mine. I am trying to determine if i am missing  an activation file that holds a key code or similar. I am looking to see if the device cheacks to see if an activation file exissts and if true reads the key contained in it and allows you to use the glasses.

regards

jeremy

[nis samis]

I can't get my pc recognize my snow 2s anymore,if i am able to i will send you my files

[jeremy smith]

That would be good , if i can just establish how it talks to the recon link program, I may be able to write a python script to talk to the glass and activate it.

[jeremy smith]

When you switch the glasses on,  the firmware checks to see if the files GEODATA_VERSION and RAPPS_VERSION (7018 in my case) are present. It  then creates a file on the SD named "LOG". If you delete "LOG" off the SD and then restart, the firmware recreates this LOG file. Therefore the firmware is checking stuff on the SD before it opens. If you remove the  ID.rib file from the SD, then the glasses lock up when the JET screen appears, and does not progress to the activation sceen, so this file is important for startup . The ID.rib  file on my glasses contains some symbols   " þÿ  j `ºU"  does any one know what these are,  or how to decode them? maybe a key to opening a different screen?. I am writing everything I am doing here,  for those that may follow

[jeremy smith]

This is what i see

[jeremy smith]

New issue, even if I get passed activation a new issue has arrisen. I have to date found the recon SDK and ADB. but now looking at the code examples from recon three futher files are needed (listed below), these files are included in the Build.Gradle file from the Malven repository and are .POM files. They to have also been removed from the repository. I have used the internet archive  back to 2014 and all copies are gone. Has anyone downloaded these from the repository at some point and has a copy?

recon-application:4.4.0
recon-ui:4.4.0
recon-platform:4.4.0

One thing I am learning here is, do not rely on big companies legacy support. Download copies of all software, dependancies and repository files if you and developing something as the big boys thinking nothing of just cutting access off its begining to hack me off a bit

[jeremy smith]

Ok the issue may be i have SDK 2.0.1 and i need SDK 4.3.0 or higher . any help would be appreciated

[tristanleboss]

I made some progress on reversing the Recon apps (Windows and Android):

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/recon-jet-basic-info.3086703/page-4

Since then, I also studied the Android app and it should not be too hard to reverse engineer and recode the whole API as it's the used by all aps.

Btw, I am searching for the iOS app... but there is no sites to download IPA files (APK equivalent). If someone still has it on a phone?