The document summarizes Team Purple's final presentation project which allows giving presentations directly from a smartphone using Chromecast. By casting the smartphone screen to a Chromecast, presenters can view slides, notes, and a timer on any TV or monitor without needing a computer. This makes it easier to present and engage audiences while allowing the presenter freedom of movement. The team encountered challenges in learning to use the new Chromecast SDK, understanding other developers' code, and grasping Objective-C and Xcode.

1. Team Purple
Mohammad Asgari
Chayson Hurst
Jiatu Liu
Final Presentation

2.  Audience only needs slides
 Speaker needs notes, timer & slide preview
 Don’t want to carry laptop everywhere
 But people take their smartphones everywhere

3.  We have Chromecast
 We have smartphone

5.  Give presentations without a computer
 View slides, notes and timer directly from phone
 Give presentations more easily
 You can walk around, with your phone in hand, to
engage the audience
 Chromecast can do more than casting slides
 Streaming videos, viewing pictures

6. MS PowerPoint Prezi Slidecast
Split screen X
Portability X X X
Built-in timer X
Built-in note taking
functionality
X X
Editpresentation X X

7.  How to use Chromecast SDK
 New SDK, hasn’t been explored by many people
 Bugs in the documentation
 How to use and modify other people’s
complicated code
 Not well documented
 Havetofilteroutcodethatweactuallyneed
 Objective-C
 Hard to grasp at the beginning
 Xcode is powerful, but also takes time to learn

9. AnyQuestions?
441purple@umich.edu