Re: Impress Remote Firefox OS / B2G

Hi Andrzej,

On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 18:46 +0100, Andrzej J. R. Hunt wrote:
> I've started working on a Firefox OS version of the Impress Remote app.
> Currently only TCP will be supported, hardcoded to use localhost (I'll
> start working on Bluetooth once I obtain some suitable hardware,
> hopefully by the end of the month).

        That's cool :-) I CC Kami who would no doubt love to help out / mentor
you for a GSOC project around this over the summer. Kami (CC'd) is on
the FirefoxOS team and also an old-time LibreOffice contributor.

        I -believe- the plan is for FirefoxOS-next to implement Bluetooth APIs
in Javascript [ or somesuch magic ] which is being worked on, possibly
Kami can help get you some pointers there (?).

> At the moment the app only allows connecting to Impress and moving
> forward by one slide. For now I'm concentrating on implementing  a full
> backend (i.e. keeping track of presentation state and storage of slide
> previews / notes), a prettier / more usable UI will come later.

        Nice. Arguably repeating the experience of the physics in the coverflow
widget would not be so great for switching slides ;-) I'd love to see
that changed to need a scroll + tap to switch slide on Android even...

> For testing it is easiest to use the Firefox OS Simulator, which is a
> Firefox (browser) plugin -- this needs to pointed at the sources in
> firefoxos/sdremote. (Note: you need to restart the simulator before
> updating the app for any changes to take effect.)

        No idea how that stuff is packaged, but if we can add a Makefile that
creates a package of some kind, then I guess ( since this can be built
on any platform) we could encourage the Android tinderbox to up-load
that :-)

> Screenshot of app in Simulator + Console  attached.

        Looks lovely :-)

        ATB,

                Michael.
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