Present your android application on Datashow

Have you ever been stuck with the idea of presenting a mobile application for a bigger audience? Well I have! at start I though it wouldn't be possible, but a little digging (google and SO) got me on the right track.

Here are some alternatives you might want to use to present your mobile application on a Datashow:

 I. Android ScreenCast

This is a really easy way to do it, in fact i think is the easiest, basicly it allows you to record what you do on your mobile into your computer screen. Steps to start using it are:

1. Install the android sdk (download here)
2. Connect your device through USB cable and ensure it's detected with "adb devices"
3. Make sure you have Java Runtime Environnement 5 or later installed
4. Click HERE. You can launch it by typing "javaws " from a command line.

Et Voila you should see the screen on your computer.

II. Android Screenshots And Screen Capture

Mightypocket also have a great tool to see your mobile on the big screen (i don't mean the movie), host in sourceforge and under GNU General Public License it has the finest IzPack instalation extremely easy to install. You basicly need

1. Java JDK 1.5 o mayor
2. Android SDK
3. Windows USB Driver 
4. AndroiScreenCaptureSetup v1.1

Nevertheless once install and configure the path of the Android SDK, still won't run, a little midnight debugging got me the answer

Seems that MightyPocket is trying to get the adb from the ANDROID_HOME/tools path instead of going to ANDROID_HOME/platforms-tools, at the end of the instalation guide they have this note that i did not read (just lazyness then i realized it was important):

UPDATE on “Unable to connect” issue
It turns out that latest Android SDK update moved adb.exe from tools to platform-tools folder. The most weird finding is that a standard ddms tool won’t work out-of-the-box on Windows unless platform-tools is specified on your PATH system variable. More details here.
Anyhow, until we publish an update, to make Android Screenshots and Screen Capture tool work with the updated SDK, just copy adb.exe, AdbWinApi.dll, andAdbWinUsbApi.dll, from platform-tools to tools folder.


Once you do as they said it will definitely work but is kind of anoying to do that, Anywho....  it does come with some handy stuff you can pick multiples devices and fullscreen mode is quite nice.

And to conclude...

Well there are some aternative you can test to do this, other projects or you can also test this alternative given on Android Stackexchange sugest to use a 3.5 mm headphone jack with a RCA cable and plug it into a TV output on the datashow, but thats only for viewing videos and it was not what i was looking for

Hopefully this help you out.