My previous post, “Video Chat for Android in 30 Lines of Code”, has generated a good level of interest. A slight twist on the same idea is to build collaboration into your applications. The use case here is slightly different: instead of enabling simple “video conversations” between remote users, this level of collaboration enables remote users to work together (or play together) within an application on their mobile device (or traditional computer).
To demonstrate this idea, I wrote a series of Flex applications with collaboration “built-in”. The same application can be deployed as an Android app, as a desktop app, or in the browser.
The first application in this series is a simple Tic-Tac-Toe game. The collaboration features built in this application are:
- Videochat
- Shared cursors: follow the other player’s mouse position
- Real time messages: a player’s move is immediately sent to the other player
- Shared states: whose turn is it to play etc.
These features are enabled by LiveCycle Collaboration Service.
Watch the video of the Android version:
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Click here to play (with the Browser version). This is obviously a simple application, but the same concepts can easily be applied to sophisticated social or business apps. My 6 year-old loves it, especially when I’m on the road :)
Download the source code:
Click here to download the source code.
Very cool stuff.
Ray Camden and I just found a tiny bug. Looks like you can take as many turns in a row that you want to. I’d expect it to block me from making a move until my opponent made his move.
Hi, I’m learning new flex program would be very helpful for me thanks
Ray Camden and I just found a tiny bug. Looks like you can take as many turns in a row that you want to. I’d expect it to block me from making a move until my opponent made his move.
C’mon guys gameplay isn’t the point here. =)
Anyways, I set the accountURL to my https://collaboration.adobelivecycle.com/username URL, but I can’t figure out what URL to put in as the amfEndpoint in the app-config.xml file to get it to work.
Thanks!
Nice production presented by androids, really nice and informative, thanks.
Really cool stuff !
Thanks to share this app ;)
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it’s so cool and informaitive..
but I cant see this code…
How can I see it..??
Hi,
Not able to view the code…it would be great if you could share the code.
Regards,
Pooja
Hi, It’s very nice but i’ve flex SDK4.5 how i can convert to flex 4.5 version? and can i use spark?
Great stuff. I’m running into problems downloading the source code; I keep getting the error…
An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource ‘http://coenraets.org/tictactoe/tictactoe.fxp'. …
hi
what program do we use to open the source code?
thanks