Tips for nailing an iPhone app demo during a presentation

If you put the phone in airplane mode as the article suggests, I doubt AirPlay to the AppleTV would work because it needs the Wifi radio that would be turned off at that point.

Re: Tips for nailing an iPhone app demo during a presentation

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Post by monkey_slap » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:45 PM UTC

I'd be curious why you'd recommend an AppleTV over a lightning-HDMI adapter. When we demo our iPad apps the direct connection is perfect. Spotty, shared wifi can hurt Airplay sometimes (and yes, it is awful that it uses a Wifi connection...)

Re: Tips for nailing an iPhone app demo during a presentation

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Post by martingordon » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:55 PM UTC

I wonder if the Apple TV hardware supports AirDrop/WiFi Direct (I know the software currently doesn't) so that you wouldn't even need to have the two devices on a WiFi network for them to see each other over AirPlay.

Re: Tips for nailing an iPhone app demo during a presentation

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Post by rbritton » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:59 PM UTC

monkey_slap wrote: post #5

I'd be curious why you'd recommend an AppleTV over a lightning-HDMI adapter. When we demo our iPad apps the direct connection is perfect. Spotty, shared wifi can hurt Airplay sometimes (and yes, it is awful that it uses a Wifi connection...)

Direct HDMI is higher resolution than the Apple TV's AirPlay, which is still capped at 720p. You can work around this by streaming to a computer directly plugged into the screen (e.g., a Mac Mini) running something like Air Server (http://www.airserver.com/), which will allow a 1080p signal.

Re: Tips for nailing an iPhone app demo during a presentation

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Post by syalam » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:59 PM UTC

coleca wrote: post #4

If you put the phone in airplane mode as the article suggests, I doubt AirPlay to the AppleTV would work because it needs the Wifi radio that would be turned off at that point.

You're correct. Airplane Mode by default turns off Wi-Fi, but if you manually enable it, you can be in Airplane Mode and have Wi-Fi. This works well.

Re: Tips for nailing an iPhone app demo during a presentation

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Post by smaccona » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 5:23 PM UTC

"Do Not Disturb" mode only mutes notifications while the iPhone's screen is locked. The text on the DnD settings page in iOS specifically says "When Do Not Disturb is enabled calls and alerts that arrive WHILE LOCKED will be silenced, and a moon icon will appear in the status bar" (emphasis mine)[1].

I've been bitten by this during a demo: I still received texts (from a co-worker) even though I had DnD enabled.

[1] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5463

Re: Tips for nailing an iPhone app demo during a presentation

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Post by smaccona » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 5:34 PM UTC

smaccona wrote: post #9

"Do Not Disturb" mode only mutes notifications while the iPhone's screen is locked. The text on the DnD settings page in iOS specifically says "When Do Not Disturb is enabled calls and alerts that arrive WHILE LOCKED will be silenced, and a moon icon will appear in the status bar" (emphasis mine)[1]. I've been bitten by this during a demo: I still received texts (from a co-worker) even though I had DnD enabled. [1] h…

A workaround using Guided Access can be found at[1]. This is not ideal, but it appears sufficient to prevent alerts etc during a presentation.

[1] http://www.macworld.com/article/2025400/how-to-temporarily-m...