My app uses hardware features of the phone not available on the simulator and i'd like to be able to demo the app for my client via screen sharing. Using AirServer, i can AirPlay to my Mac, but my iPhone 4 doesn't support video mirroring out of the box. Is there any magic that would let me do this? Since this is just for a demo, undocumented APIs are encouraged.
Thanks!
The official way to support external screens is simply to call
[UIScreen screens]
to get a reference to available screens including the external screen. You could grap that feed with a bit of hardware for an awesome screencast.
The process is mentioned in this thread connecting iPad to external monitor. It works equally well on iPhone and iPod. Apples official UIScreen documentation is available here
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my client asks me to develop some app for real-estate presentation which has the following features:
1. The seller can have their ipads connect to the projector wireless over wifi.
2. The seller can broadcast the screenshot of some other ipads to the customers's ipads.
For feature 1, I can have a apple TV and airplay mirroring the ipad screen to it, then have some HDMI-VGA adapter for the connection with the projector.
For feature 2, I can also install airfloat to make the ipad an airplay receiver. I can also airplay mirroring the screen of the seller's ipad to the customer's ipad.
As for as I know, it seems to be no way to airplay mirroring the screenshot of one ipad to multiple ipad airplay receivers.
So I'm wondering how can I airplay mirroring one screen to many ipad airplay receivers?
How about you use airview or airplay receiver like in this link? It seen like we need to solve some problem to use.
https://github.com/nto/AirView
Another one is you can use this SDK. It has screen sharing and gesture sharing from one device to another device. It seen quite good.
http://www.showkit.com/
Our rPlay airplay mirroring software implemented the features you asked. rPlay acts as Apple TV, you can mirror ios devices to it, rPlay can also duplicate displays to other rPlay devices, the result is one ios device sends its screens to multiple devices.
We are also develop viewers for mobile devices to receive rPlay displays.
Check our forums at http://www.vmlite.com for more info
I am encountering an issue which I believe is caused, as a result of upgrading to iOS version 6 on my iPad2 and iPad4. I have searched the support boards but have not found a solution to this issue. The issue involves mirroring the iPad on a TV using the official HDMI adaptor as shown here: http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MD098ZM/A/apple-digital-av-adapter
When playing a video on the device using the native MPMoviePlayerController, via the adapter, the result on the TV is not full screen and, instead, it is provided with black borders around the video (these bars are an ever present even when viewing the app's non-video parts or the standard apple menus which I believe was always the case but, previously, the video played full screen via the cable).
I have tested apps which I have developed which contain video playback, as well as a number of leading apps on the marketplace, and all experience the same issue when playing video mirrored on the device with iOS6 and TV at the same time. The only app I found that was able to play the video full screen on TV is the BBC iPlayer, but this seems to switch of mirroring off temporarily when the video is played full screen on TV.
I believe that, when on iOS 5, it was possible to mirror the video playback on device and TV simultaneously, and at full screen, without the black bars on the TV.
Can anyone here please confirm if this issue is related to iOS 6 and be able to kindly point me in the right direction to resolve this issue in the iOS apps that I have developed?
Are you sure that this is not happening because of your external screen's overscan settings?
Check this thread iOS screen mirroring shows overscan borders on selected apps
And here is some information on overscan & underscan from Apple
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5841
I am looking to find the developer's guide for the iPhone to interact with Apple TV. I am not talking about developing apps for Apple TV. I am talking about interacting with the Apple TV through an iPhone application. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I've asked this question before, and written an iOS app that fully supports an external screen and I've found there's very little you can actually do besides put stuff in a separate UIWindow.
An Apple TV presents itself to your iOS device as an AirPlay device and you can use it as an external screen and also send and receive remote control events if it's playing media from your device with some of the built in movie controllers.
If you connect to an AppleTV your app will receive a UIScreenDidConnectNotification and you can then choose to place a UIWindow in the second UIScreen instance made available to you.
Two places to look are:
Edit (changed the order)
Apple's View Programming Guide probably has the most useful information on external screens and windows. I've linked to the section on windows that mentions external screens explicitly.
UIScreen documentation
Event Handling Documentation is less useful, as it only really applies if you're playing media from the Music App etc.
Hope that helps!
I've developed a user experience in my iOS app for displaying a different view on an external screen connected via AirPlay screen mirroring or HDMI out. I have a setting to enable/disable this feature, allowing the user to choose between this mode and true mirroring (i.e. same experience on both screens).
Since many iOS devices don't even support external displays (iPhone 3GS and earlier, iPod touches) and some only support HDMI out (iPhone 4, iPad 1, iPad 2 with iOS4), I'd like to tailor the settings UI for each category of device.
I know it's good practice to detect capabilities whenever possible and not to avoid checking the version of the device itself. However, I haven't found anything online about detecting AirPlay support, just how to code for it.
Is it possible to detect AirPlay/HDMI support in the SDK?
(Apple's documentation on developing for external screens:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/WindowsViews/Conceptual/ViewPG_iPhoneOS/CreatingWindows/CreatingWindows.html)
No, not directly and in a summary fashion.
I think you would probably be best off detecting the device version and using that as the basis of your UI.
If you really believe that is bad practice, I suggest you explore Erica Sadun's UIDevice extensions - you might be able to find in there the code necessary to query enough specific capabilities to create an abstraction that would let you know if a device is AirPlay/HDMI capable. If you do that, I hope you share it!
UIDevice-extension: https://github.com/erica/uidevice-extension
As a side note, don't forget about the VGA adapter. I have tested my app with it at 1080p and it works/looks as good as the HDMI adapter, which was a big surprise to me.
I need to live-demo a Mobile Safari browser app (iOS 5, iPhone 4S) on my Macbook and was wondering the best way to do this?
One way I thought might be possible would be using AirPlay Mirroring, but there doesn't seem to be any Mac OS apps capable of showing my iPhone screen mirrored.
I am an (beginner) iOS developer and wondered if there was anyway I could knock up a basic app with a UIWebView in it to somehow stream the contents of the web page and my interactions with it to my Mac.
Any thoughts?
EDIT: Yes I know I could use the iPhone Simulator, but I need to interact with it on the handset using the mobile phone network.
The situation has changed since this was asked.
AirServer (AirServerApp.com) and Reflection (ReflectionApp.com) both support AirPlay mirroring. Here's an article comparing them:
http://www.macstories.net/reviews/mirroring-multiple-ios-devices-to-a-mac-comparing-airserver-and-reflection/
Since your device (iPhone 4s) supports video mirroring via AirPlay, then you should be able to use AirServer to enable mirroring to your Mac.
Update: As pointed out by Marc Surman, AirServer does not support mirroring, rendering this answer incorrect. Thanks for playing.
Mirroring uses FairPlay encryption, which is why AirServer and similar applications can't do mirroring.
You CAN, however, fake this using AirplayKit:
https://github.com/rothacr/AirplayKit
The iOS demo in that repo actually does a simple mirror by sending an image of your screen to the airplay device using a timer. It would probably work just fine for a demo, and should work with AirServer.