Impress Remote Firefox OS / B2G

[KAMI911 KAMI911]

Another example is here:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/01/introducing-the-firefox-os-boilerplate-app/

See the packed app section.

KAMI

2013/4/12 KAMI911 KAMI911 <kami911 at gmail.com>

> Hi all,
>
> Great job! I really love this :o)
>
> 2013/4/12 Michael Meeks <michael.meeks at suse.com>
>
>> 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 (?).
>>
>
> WebBluetooth is currently under implementing. Here comes more info:
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/WebBluetooth
>
>>
>> > 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 :-)
>>
>
> Apps file are a zip file with manifest file. It is relative easy to pack
> it.
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Apps/Manifest
>
> Probably this demo provides all information to make an installable,
> self-containing apps.
>  http://comoyo.github.io/blog/2013/03/12/build-first-ffos-app/
>
>>
>> > Screenshot of app in Simulator + Console  attached.
>>
>>         Looks lovely :-)
>>
>>         ATB,
>>
>>                 Michael.
>> --
>> michael.meeks at suse.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
>>
>>
> Thank you,
> KAMI
>
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