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Android digital signage how-to
Here are a few techniques in programming Android for digital signage on IAdea players: Hide home bar and show full screen Play video Caching media files
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WiFi information
In digital signage, it is often desirable to know the network connection status of the device to decide the appropriate content to play. For example, when network connection is down, it may be desi...
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Authentication
Each HTML API call needs to be accompanied by an access token, with the exception of one call that retrieves an access token for the immediate session. POST /v2/oath2/tokengrant_type=password&usern...
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Call structure
Each HTML5 API call is a RESTful API over HTTP protocol. It takes the form of GET/POST {api_name}?access_token={...} And the parameter of the call is a data structure encoded as a JSON string, pass...
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HTML5 integration and APIs
One of the easiest ways to develop content for IAdea digital signage players is to use HTML5. However it is often difficult to access low-level system functions using purely HTML5. IAdea has devise...
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FailSafe™
Should your primary AppStart app fails for any reason, FailSafe is a reliable way to assign an Android app to run while you try to recover your AppStart content. You may wish to show generic and l...
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How to launch the app by AppStart™ and exit the app properly?
AppStart is a reliable way to assign an Android app to run at boot time. You can configure AppStart setting of your IAdea device by navigating from Basic Settings/Advanced/Content/AppStart. [On And...
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Separate program/data storage
IAdea's Android architecture provides additional storage on a separate physical, solid-state device from the program flash memory. If you use IAdea's built-in SMIL/HTML5 player, you are automatical...
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Full-screen layout
Digital signage requires removal of the Android home bar during playback. On IAdea devices you can reliably achieve this. On other devices the home bar is designed to bounce back as soon as user to...
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Architectural improvements
IAdea's Android architecture includes the following improvements over the typical Android implementation. Full-screen layout: IAdea players reliably support the Android FullScreen layout. No more ...