Android Manchester - Meetup

[Zain Mohammed]

Hi Guys,

We'll be having our monthly Android meetup on the 16th of May & MadLab

The keynote will be presented by @suttonpeter, a short talk titled "App design: Know your Content Provider from your Account Authenticator" - he'll cover the basics for a robust and secure Android app - Pete is a hugely talented and enthusiastic Android Developer!

As always, we'll cover the latest happenings in the Android world, and may even have an app demo :)

Please come along and invite your friends, feel free to forward this email :)

Sign up here http://android-manchester-meets.eventbrite.com/

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[Matt Oakes]

Inspired a bit by the live streaming of the GTUG sessions in San Fransisco I'd like to have a go at live streaming the next Android meetup.

Obviously I'd need to get permission from you Zain and Pete but I'd like to see what sort of a reception it would get. If I use Ustream it will save the stream so it can be viewed after the event as well.

Just an idea, if you don't want it then that's fine :-)

Matt

[Zain Mohammed]

Yehhh deffo!

I'm all for live streaming, from an Android phone? - even better!

Pete, thoughts?

[Matt Oakes]

I was thinking about doing it from my laptop so I could use an external microphone. No point if the quality is too bad to hear.

I'll have a play and see what I can get setup, assuming pete doesn't mind.

On May 9, 2011 3:13 PM, "Zain Mohammed" <zainfur....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yehhh deffo!
>
> I'm all for live streaming, from an Android phone? - even better!
>
> Pete, thoughts?
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Matt Oakes <oak...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Inspired a bit by the live streaming of the GTUG sessions in San Fransisco
>> I'd like to have a go at live streaming the next Android meetup.
>>
>> Obviously I'd need to get permission from you Zain and Pete but I'd like to
>> see what sort of a reception it would get. If I use Ustream it will save the
>> stream so it can be viewed after the event as well.
>>
>> Just an idea, if you don't want it then that's fine :-)
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>> On 9 May 2011 12:46, Zain Mohammed <zainfur....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> We'll be having our monthly Android meetup on the 16th of May & MadLab
>>>

>>> The keynote will be presented by @suttonpeter<http://twitter.com/#%21/suttonpeter>,

[Zain Mohammed]

Yes that does sound better.

The talk from last month was recorded on a Desire Z - sound quality could have been much much better!

I'll email people to see if there's anyone with a camcorder? :)

Zain

[Matt Oakes]

It needs to be able to act as a webcam. I have some cheap usb ones which should be good enough for the perpose.

[Zain Mohammed]

Sounds good - lets go for that then :)

Zain

[Bob Clough]

an android phone can act as a webcam over wifi :D

[Matt Oakes]

Cheers Bob. Just looked at that now. That seems like a perfect solution. I'll try it out tonight!

[Zain Mohammed]

Great, let me know how that goes :)

[Matt Oakes]

It works over Wifi, but its a bit laggy. Over USB I get errors all the time. Can't figure it out. Might poke at the code when I get chance, see if it's anything I can fix.

I might end up just using a cheap USB webcam. Should be good enough anyway, it's the sound that's more important really.

[Matt Oakes]

Looks like we're on. Pete's up for it.

I've tried using my android phone over wifi as a webcam and it looks but there's a lag of about a second. I'd ideally like to do it with an external mic to try and get better sound. I brought a cheap one but obviously the quality isn't ideal. I think there might be one I could borrow at madlab though, maybe. For video I'll just use a USB webcam.

There's a group in Canada (I think) which does a similar meetup and livestreams them all and gets quite a few viewers. Should be an interesting experiment.

Shall we start advertising it round a bit on Twitter and so forth?

By the way...the code for Pete's presentation is on github in case anyone missed it. Looks like it's going to be interesting:

https://github.com/dj-foxxy/xkcd-viewer

Matt

[Zain Mohammed]

Apologies, totally overlooked this message!

Yess do adevrtise on Twitter - will be a wonderful experiment!