RE: [android-developers] Best way to live demo apps

What about one of those magnifier overhead projectors from back in the 70s
or so? Not the transparency ones, the ones that essentially point a camera
at the base and project up onto the screen. You hold (or set) the phone
underneath it, and voila, you now have two screens, one from your laptop and
one conveying what the phone looks like.

The only other thought I have is to have a webcam pointed at the phone and
the cam's feed captured on your screen somehow.

Or you *could* just buy phones for everybody in the audience.... ;-)

Ted Neward
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-
> developers@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Murphy
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 4:02 PM
> To: android-developers@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: [android-developers] Best way to live demo apps
>
> Stu wrote:
> > I want to be able to perform live demos of an app I've been working
> at
> > conferences.
> >
> > There doesn't seem to be an easy way to get a video feed of what's
> > going on onscreen onto a big screen.
> >
> > We've hooked up the screen capture utility of DDMS and keep hitting
> > refresh. Its not ideal. I'm aware that there are more automatic
> > solutions that continuously cause a refresh, but these don't really
> > provide video, and I'd also like an audio feed.
> >
> > I can frame grab within my app programmatically, but the Android
> SDK's
> > video encoder only supports capturing video feed from the camera.
> >
> > Any ideas? What's the best way to live demo Android apps to large
> > audiences?
>
> The "more automatic solutions that continuously cause a refresh" are
> the
> only ones I am aware of (DroidEx, DroidAtScreen).
>
> In terms of an "audio feed", use the 3.5mm jack in your phone. Patch
> that to whatever you want, possibly with amplification depending on the
> size of your room.
>
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