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the-blue-alliance / the-blue-alliance-android

An Android app for accessing information about the FIRST Robotics Competition.
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Chromecast Awesomeness #772

Open phil-lopreiato opened 8 years ago

phil-lopreiato commented 8 years ago

@nwalters512 thinks it may be possible to make a Chromecast app for TBA gameday. That would be awesome. Do want.

(as an aside, if we can do it with react native, we can make a standalone cross-platform codebase for gameday2. Which would be amazing)

nwalters512 commented 8 years ago

Chromecast receiver apps are all just glorified webpages; I fully intend to reuse a lot of the React components I wrote (yay for modularizing things!).

React Native doesn't compile to standard webapps, I think. We might be able to use it for the sender app though.

phil-lopreiato commented 8 years ago

We might be able to use it for the sender app though.

That's what I was thinking - imagine a "TBA Gameday" app where you can watch streams locally/control your chromecast. It would be pretty cool, as long as most webcasts can run with html5

nwalters512 commented 8 years ago

What gets tricky is that most streaming sites still require you to use their embeds; they make it damn hard, if not impossible, to access the raw video stream. We'd have to mess around with WebViews hosting iframes, and that just sounds like an awful time to me :P

phil-lopreiato commented 8 years ago

Ah, very true. Maybe we'll be able to find something good to work out