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Mconf - BigBlueButton Summit
- 1. Mconf and the BigBlueButton Android Client BigBlueButton Summit - August 28th 2011 Authors: Felipe Cecagno Leonardo Crauss Daronco
- 2. Agenda 1. About us + Mconf Overview (5 minutes) 2. The Android client (10 minutes)
- 3. 1. About us
- 4. About us Porto Alegre - Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
- 5. About us Institute of Informatics at UFRGS (http://inf.ufrgs.br/en/) Group: PRAV (http://inf.ufrgs.br/prav)
- 6. 2. Overview
- 7. Overview Mconf - "Sistema de multiconferncia para acesso Interopervel web e mvel" In English: multiconference system for interoperable access between web and mobile devices Main objectives: Provide a complete webconference environment Integration with mobile devices Usability Open Source
- 8. Overview This project is supported by RNP. The "national network for research and education". http://www.rnp.br/ The project started in November 2010. The 1st phase will last 1 year. But it will possibly (hopefully) be extended: More 1, 2 or more years
- 9. Where to find us Google code, for docs and issue tracking: http://code.google.com/p/mconf/ GitHub, for code: https://github.com/mconf Our mailing list, for anything else: mconf-dev@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/mconf-dev
- 10. Architecture 1. BigBlueButton 2. Mobile 3. Web portal
- 11. Mconf-Web Mconf-Web is our web application that manages the meetings in BigBlueButton. It can be compared to the other integrations BBB has: Moodle, Sakai, Joomla, etc. It's currently based on Global Plaza: An event based social network http://globalplaza.org But we are thinking about remodeling it...
- 12. Mconf-Web Developed in Ruby on Rails. Two libraries (gems) also available: bigbluebutton-api-ruby: BBB library for Ruby bigbluebutton_rails: BBB library for Rails
- 13. Mconf-Web Available at: http://mconf.inf.ufrgs.br You can register and try it for free. Any kind of feedback is welcome!
- 14. 3. BigBlueButton Android client
- 15. Overview Goal: transparent interaction between desktop and mobile users Developing a native Android application First iniciative on building a mobile client
- 16. Architecture flazr is a Java library which handles the RTMP communication Support to Remote Shared Objects developed by our team bbb-java is a client side Java API to interact with the BigBlueButton server bbb-android-core is a native Android library Mostly developed in Java - some code in C++ Some code from the IVA project Integrated with Sipdroid to provide voice functionalities Uses FFmpeg for video encoding and decoding
- 17. Main functionalities Public and private chat
- 18. Main functionalities Voice interaction Tap to speak
- 19. Main functionalities Administrative actions Assign presenter Kick user Lower hand Mute / unmute
- 20. Main functionalities Video visualization (one at a time)
- 21. Main functionalities Video capture and publish
- 22. BBB-Android and Mconf-Mobile BBB-Android accesses directly the BigBlueButton server by a JSP demo application Can join freely all the running meetings, also as a moderator Needs to know the server address Mconf-Mobile accesses the web portal Same permissions as in the web portal Can join only his own rooms, rooms from spaces that the user is member and rooms from public spaces Just needs to know the mconf.inf.ufrgs.br (or mconf.org)
- 24. BBB-Android + Web portal Join a meeting clicking on a hyperlink (in the device web browser) bigbluebutton://
- 25. BBB-Android + Web portal Join a meeting scanning a QR Code
- 26. BBB-Android and Mconf-Mobile Compatible with Android 2.0 and above (~96,7%* of the devices) Constantly tested on: Samsung Galaxy S (Android 2.2) Samsung Galaxy Tab (Android 2.2.1) Motorola Milestone (Android 2.0.1) Recommended: Android 2.2 or above * http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html on August 2011
- 27. BBB-Android and Mconf-Mobile We maintain both English and Portuguese (BR) languages It is automatically detected by the device Easy to translate to others
- 28. BBB-Android security model On BigBlueButton 0.71a: JSP application removes the need of the security salt (!) On BigBlueButton 0.8 (under development): JSP application requires a checksum with a unique security salt per server Salt must be small enough to be entered in the device, probably a 5-char string
- 29. Mobile JSP application Supports the calls above: getMeetings createMeeting join
- 30. What's coming next? Presentation module Bugfixes Big effort on usability and stability Android Market (more frequent and easy updates)
- 31. How to contribute Testing Reporting bugs Describing new features or enhancements Sending feedback Translating Sending patches Are you interested? Find us on Google Code (http://code.google.com/p/mconf) Contact us directly by e-mail (mconf.prav@gmail.com)
- 32. Thank you for your attention Mconf and the BigBlueButton Android Client BigBlueButton Summit - August 28th 2011 Authors: Felipe Cecagno Leonardo Crauss Daronco