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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.
-- 
michael.meeks@suse.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot


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