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Plasmoids can now be controlled remotely from another machine (ie shared over the network.

It would be great to be able to share a plasmoid on your desktop to your android phone or tablet.

I realise these are different platforms and that it may not be practical to put plasma on Android but maybe you don't need the whole plasma just enough to control a shared plasmoid from a KDE machine.

Even if the android App had to be written specifically for it, it would have a lot of possibilities.

Use cases:-
Your media centre PC (running KDE media plasmoids that are shared) could be controlled from your Android phone or tablet. Essentially making your phone or coffee table tablet a remote for your media centre.

Possible ways to do it:-

1) port plasma to Android. probably not practical but if done would make all KDE plasmoids available on android both as stand alone and the remote end for shared plasmoids.

2) Write an Andorid app that can connect to a shared app on a KDE machine. A little more simple. each instance of this android app would act as the remote end of a single shared plasmoid.

3) If No. 2 is not practical maybe plasma could be extended to make option No. 2 more practical

4) Web API interface to shared plasmoids. wouldn't be as well integrated into Android platform but would have the advantage of working on any other system with a browser as well.

Media controls for every player are already exposed through a common DBUS interface.

I don't see any benefit of ever going via plasma.

Also for your specific use case see:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/android-tesla/

Thanks that android-tesla looks great.

But as for d-bus being the same as remote plasmoids I would disagree as plasmoids is a graphical widget where d-bus is a back-end for programs to talk to each other and not something the end user should have to deal with directly.

There might be more use cases for my original proposal but This tesla thing looks like it might cover my use case pretty thoroughly and I can't think of another use cases

Any boday else have any interesting use-cases that tesla doesn't meet?