LiveCycle Collaboration Service

Multi-User Google Maps Collaboration on Android

This application allows users in different locations to work together in Google Maps.

The collaboration features in this application include:

Video Chat
Map Synchronization on move, zoom, etc.
Whiteboarding
Cursor sharing

When running on Android, the application can use the device’s GPS to share your location.

This is just another example of “built-in” collaboration (go here and here for more). The point is really how easy it is to add these collaboration features to any application, and then to deploy these collaboration-enabled applications to multiple screens (browser, desktop, Android, and more devices soon).

Experience the application in the browser

Click here to experience the browser version of the application.

The application is written in Flex 4. The collaboration features are powered by LiveCycle Collaboration Service.

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Multi-User Video Tic-Tac-Toe for Android

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 :)