BBB working on an ipad

[luminaia]

I just tested BBB on the ipad app "iswifter" -- a flash-based browser
in apple app store, and it worked relatively well as a "viewing"
device (using mconf.org). Here's the assessment:

Video stream: working.
Audio stream: working.
Presentation window: working. Latency was relatively low seeing the
pointer.
Chat box: can view, but tapping to enter text does not bring up the
ipad keyboard.

I didn't test with multiple video streams -- just one, but it looks
like it's a decent viewing device in it's current form. However, no
access to interactivity.

From the app development I've done, and what I've read online, I'm
guessing a BBB ipad app is very doable - as I've seen mentioned in
other posts on the forum.

For anyone who has an apple development membership (needed for device
testing) -- I'm guessing one place to start would be to create a
simple flash package in Flash Builder -- calling the remote client
bbb.swf and see how the the package is interpreted on the ipad.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2_MyfmiUpM

Based on what I've seen iswifter, this may be worth looking into.

IOS support, I believe, would really expand the adoption base for
BBB. I know it's definitely coloring my decisions in using BBB as a
primary package for distance learning.

I'm curious to hear what other testing has already been done by BBB
developers.

Michael

[luminaia]

I was able to get the chat working. The app has a keyboard icon in
the upper right that opens the keyboard. Chat input from ipad works
fine.

[HostBBB.com]

http://iswifter.com/

if this is the same app, the actual conversion of flash to native app
that runs on ipad is a cloud service running on their servers.

would be interesting to see if you can push 20 users thru the service.

stephen

[luminaia]

Interesting. I hadn't looked at their website.

I'm guessing they are in the process of creating an API for developers
--- probably some kind of annual fee.

It may be a good interim step for a BBB ios app until an HTTP
streaming interface can be developed.

I'd also be curious to hear how a larger scale test of BBB works on
the app.

M