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« on: December 08, 2011, 05:51:53 PM »
I've seen a couple of instances of iPhones and such being used as wireless controllers for games (and IIRC, roombas!) and it looks like there's some great potential (especially with accelerometers) but I'm pretty sure these have been custom hacks not intended to be extended. Thought it would be cool to have a more modular system where you can use any compatible device/app combo to control any compatible server/program over WiFi, Bluetooth, or whatever. All it would take is a well-defined spec for the communication...well, and some adopters.

Anyone heard of something like this? If not, I'm tempted to give it a shot, if only because I have no other ideas for messing around with Android Wink
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« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2011, 07:34:38 PM »
Quote from: Cheezmeister on December 08, 2011, 05:51:53 PM
I've seen a couple of instances of iPhones and such being used as wireless controllers for games (and IIRC, roombas!) and it looks like there's some great potential (especially with accelerometers) but I'm pretty sure these have been custom hacks not intended to be extended. Thought it would be cool to have a more modular system where you can use any compatible device/app combo to control any compatible server/program over WiFi, Bluetooth, or whatever. All it would take is a well-defined spec for the communication...well, and some adopters.

Anyone heard of something like this? If not, I'm tempted to give it a shot, if only because I have no other ideas for messing around with Android Wink

Hey,

Yup libgdx has a remote functionality built in, which is pretty cool. It sends any touch & accelerometer data through to your app via some port.

It's completely open-source:
http://code.google.com/p/libgdx/source/browse/trunk/gdx/src/com/badlogic/gdx/input/RemoteSender.java
http://code.google.com/p/libgdx/source/browse/trunk/gdx/src/com/badlogic/gdx/input/RemoteInput.java

Obviously the code is very specific to libgdx, however it shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

Cheers,
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« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2011, 09:31:59 PM »
Looks neat, I'll have to mess around some! Thanks Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2011, 06:18:42 PM »
GMote has a similar thing going, but geared towards multimedia:

http://code.google.com/p/gmote/
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