Hi, The only other way I'm aware of is just mirroring the tablet screen to the HDMI device using a HDMI cable connection, but that does not satisfy your requirement of different content on the two screens & it also means the tablet is tethered with the (short) HDMI cable.
It would be great if we could just somehow simply create an secondary 'external HDMI activity or widget' & display context as we would any other activity (but with no user interaction, you'd be using the main tablet activity to control the HDMI content etc) but that's not yet possible as far as I am aware - someone please tell me otherwise. It would also be good to be able to do this without the 'register your app' requirements of Chromecast & also relegate the necessary configuration details to an Android Settings screen - controlled by the user outside of your application. The Chromecast method seems to be a good (but somewhat complicated) way to go as you don't need to be tethered by a cable between the tablet & HDMI, the comms is via WIFI & you don't necessarily need to write any code on the Chromcast side if you can use the default receiver - https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/receiver_apps#Styled A completely different solution would be to mirror one Android device (tablet) to the HDMI output & then use a second Android device (connected over wifi or bluetooth) to control what the 1st Android device is mirroring. Just like this from a few years back... - http://blog.radioactiveyak.com/2011/05/android-protips-at-io-session-video-and.html Regards On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:56:08 PM UTC+11, Simon Giddings wrote: > > After having looked at this, it would seem to be a bit overkill. > Is there not another, more "direct" way to output to an HDMI display ? > > On Saturday, 22 February 2014 07:20:32 UTC+1, gjs wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Try https://developers.google.com/cast/ >> >> Regards >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
