Digital Fun for the Digital Home

Digital Fun for the Digital Home: TV, Tablets, & Smartphones
Renaun Erickson – Last updated 2011.05.06

About Me
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Renaun Erickson
Developer Evangelist, Adobe Systems Inc
renaun@adobe.com
http://github.com/renaun
@renaun
http://renaun.com/blog
Code in the Flash Player (local mic access)
Mobile application developer
Device Junkie
Based in Henderson, NV, USA
Like Games, Jeeps, and Archaeology
Enjoys 4 lovely kids

What is the Digital Home?
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Can Mean a lot of Things!
Cable & Broadcast Media
Home Theatre / Televisions
Home Automation
Tablets
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Appliances
Telecommunication
Gaming Consoles
Smartphones
What are the digital home and digital living?
The digital home is an evolution of the idea that PCs, consumer electronics
and mobile devices should work together seamlessly through
a wired or wireless network to share digital content within
a home environment. Digital living extends that idea to
include sharing content on the go as well.
Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) dlna.org

The Center of Digital Fun
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Digital Fun for the Digital Home
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Smart TV (w/ AIR)
Wireless Router
Tablets
Smartphones

Device Landscape for Adobe Runtimes
Desktop
Netbooks
Android
RIM Playbook
Apple iOS
Google TV
Televisions
WebOS
Open Screen Project
Tons of OS & Chipsets
No single control of runtime releases
Abstracting as much of device fragmentation as possible
Remember early stages of device OS and runtimes, constant change
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Snapshot of Current Hardware
Samsung Smart TV
Sony Google TV
Logitech Revue
Android Phones
RIM PlayBook
Apple iPad2/iPhone4
Android Tablets
Palm Pre 2
Presentation Demos
MAX 2010 AIR for TV Dev Kit
Router
Motorola Atrix / with WebTop
iPad2
iPod 5th gen
iPhone 3GS
Galaxy Tab
Nexus One
2011
AIR 2.5
Available
FP 10.1
Available
FP 10.1
Available
FP 10.2/AIR 2.6
Available
FP 10.1/AIR 2.5
Available
AIR 2.6
Available
FP 10.2/AIR 2.6
Available
FP 10.1
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Concepts of Digital Fun
Create multi device and user experiences.
Device discovery should be automatic or simple.
Make use of a wide range of inputs:
Multitouch, Gestures, Mic, Camera, Geolocation, Accelerometer, etc…
Pixels – different device screen resolution and their relationships matter.
Panels – the physical size of devices do not equal screen resolution.
Creating one controller application for multiple content.
A brain in each application, but only one active at a time.
Interaction time: to real time or not to real time the application.
Applications that change based upon connected device topology.
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Demos
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PickQuick
CanvasExpo
MADH
Video
Eiden
CoinFlip
Photoshop Touch SDK - DeviceCompViewer

PickQuick
Discovery using NetGroup and GroupSpecifier (RTMFP).
One application for all platforms.
TV remote control input.
Designed for tablet, scaled down for specific size & ppi.
Every app is full game.
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CanvasExpo
TV is canvas application.
Smartphones and Tablets are the input mechanism.
Uses multitouch and gestures.
Supports multiplayer at the same time.
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CoinFlip
Accelerometer used on mobile browser where present, but not on desktop.
Browser based application, no download.
Supports multiplayer at the same time.
Every app is full application and runs the same code.
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Mini Dodgem AIR Hockey (MDAH)
Multiple game board devices, TV & Tablets
Smartphone controllers
Supports two players at the same time.
Accelerometer & multitouch inputs.
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Eiden – Wiimote/WebTop
Wii Controller Android application for Wiimote IME.
Atrix WebTop for HDMI mirroring.
Input is keyboard keyCodes.
Supports two Wiimotes, for 2 player game.
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DeviceCompViewer
Photoshop Touch SDK ActionScript 3 Library
TCP based IP configured & password required setup
Sends ExtendScript JS & special Touch SDK commands
Hard to check comps on a device
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VideoAware
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Context of TV app changes Mobile app to controller

Device Discoverability
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RTMFP – multicast over a local network
No internet needed, just router with broadcast enabled (typical home router setup)
AS3 only
A lot like mDNS (Bonjour) and UPnP discovery part
Configuration
NetConnection’s connectionstring conn.connect(“rtmfp:”)
IP in the multicast range - 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255 with 224.0.0.0/225 for special use (http://www.iana.org/assignments/multicast-addresses/multicast-addresses.xml)
Port – any valid port
GroupSpecifier name – allows for multiple groups/apps on same ip/port – group management

Using Multitouch and Gestures
MultitouchInputMode.GESTURES – Gestures
Multitouch.supportedGestures
Multitouch.supportedGestureEvents
MultitouchInputMode.TOUCH_POINT - Raw Touch Point
Multitouch.supportedTouchEvents
Can build your own gesture library with raw data points?
http://gestureworks.com/ - Commercial Product

Accelerometer

Physical Size / Pixels Per Inch
Screen Resolutions are Independent of Physical Screen Size

Approaches
Scale content to same physical size using PPI.
Use PPI and screen physical size to scale only certain devices.
Create different view/layoutbased on screen resolution and physical size (tablet vs smartphone).
Different view/layout for each device.
Dynamic layouts to fill up space.
MOST LIKELY WHAT YOU WILL DO
Hybrid of the above approaches

AIR Profiles
Capabilities
“mobileDevice” Profile
“desktop” Profile
NativeWindow
PDF, Printing
Context Menu
Notification
AS2 VM
DRM
WebKit
renderMode=GPU Accelerometer
cacheAsBitmapMatrix
Orientation
SystemIdleMode
Camera Roll
SQLite
Fullscreen Mode
File System
Networking*
TLF Rendering
Camera/Microphone*
DRM
AS2 VM
http://bit.ly/aOlHQ3
“tv” Profile
* May be present

AIR Application Compile & Package
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Compiling
Packaging
ActionScript
AIR Application
SWF

AIR Current Packagers
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Compiling
Packagers
adt – Desktop, Android, TV, & iOS
Creates: .air, .exe, .dmg, .apk, .ipa
pfi - iDevice uses Packager for iPhone
Creates: .ipa Now part of adt (AIR 2.6)
blackberry-airpackager– PlayBook
Creates: .bar

How Packaging AIR apps for iOS Works
ADT
.ipa
SWF
Assets
Runtime is cross compiled down to ARM instructions and is part of each application.
ActionScript
Captive runtime – The term used for this process.
This is a highly requested feature for Android.
Flex support for AIR for iOS is coming in AIR 2.7 in 2011.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/flexprerelease

Discussion Time
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Q/A
Thank you for attending
renaun@adobe.com
http://github.com/renaun
@renaun
http://renaun.com/blog

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