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Use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac

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Re: Use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac

#21

This looks cool - I'd definitely use it for emails. Has it not been done already though? I have a question about the image - whats the stand used for the iPad?

Regarding it being done before, I tried this app (http://minidisplayapp.com/userguide/en/) that offered similar with an iPad mini, but the extra space wasn't really big enough to make it worthwhile.

Re: Use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac

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post #17

> the first app that allows you to use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac I stumbled upon iDisplay.com the other day. Can't recommend anything though, I'm not an apple user, I was looking for ways to replicate my android phone display in my desktop Linux.

Did you find anything worth using for your use case?

Re: Use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac

#27
post #17

> the first app that allows you to use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac I stumbled upon iDisplay.com the other day. Can't recommend anything though, I'm not an apple user, I was looking for ways to replicate my android phone display in my desktop Linux.

Did you find anything worth using for your use case?

Not really: I tried android-screencast [1] but had to root my phone, the framerate was terrible, lots of crashes, touch gestures not really satisfying.

The other option was using genymotion, works well, but some apps can't be installed multiple times (whatsapp I'm looking at you).

If anyone knows a better way to do so, thank you in advance!

[1] https://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/

Re: Use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac

#28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My guess would be they're just using the shared documents area . There's a number of libraries on the desktop that let you access an API to write to the shared documents area. I'd guess they'd just be piping a mp4 feed to this and the iOS would just be reading from there.

Is there any chance this approach could eventually be used on a Linux distro or Windows?

The technology already exists in X11. The problem is getting devices to act as display servers.

Re: Use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac

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post #24

Am I a little too slow here or they just launched the Mac app without the iOS counterpart? Can't find it on App Store.

You're too fast, the release date for the iOS app is 16th december.

Ah. I see. Got a little confused because the Mac app is already available, so I thought it was just a matter of old sign up form not removed from site yet.
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