Re: Impress Remote Firefox OS / B2G

Hi,

This makes me wonder - why not just directly make the app in html5 which
could be used through every device which has a web browser. Just fire up an
web server in LO and server the content.  As for Bluetooth something like
Apache Cordova  / Phonegap could be used where you can access to native
features in javascript. I think this way we could be more mobile
environment neutral (WP8, Android, iOS, Blackberry) instead we make
specific native applications for every each mobile environment.

Regards,
Tomaž Vajngerl


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@suse.com>wrote:

> 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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>
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