Dear Canonical, Dear Appear.in, I'm trying to turn Appear.in into a Web app for Ubuntu Touch, for true video conversations "with up to 8 people for free." It works in Ubuntu Touch's default browser, but for a Web app there are a few things I need to be able to control:
1.) [Canonical] By default the browser uses the rear camera. This can be changed in the browser menu via Settings -> Privacy & permissions -> Camera & Microphone. You have to reload the web page afterwards, the browser does not switch the camera on an open "connection" as it seems. A bit clumsy, but it's possible. The browser seems to remember this setting for a while (when closing the browser window in the meantime), albeit not forever. Unfortunately, the menu in the right upper corner next to the address bar is not available in a Web app (due to the address bar missing completely, which is on purpose to use all of the available screen real estate). Is there a way specify which camera should be used when starting up the web app container, e.g. by a command line switch or so? If not, I probably have to write a Qt application and use the API function the web browser application is using, right? Can you point me to the API documentation? 2.) [Appear.in] The text box on the login screen is somewhat squeezed on the Welcome screen (https://appear.in/) as soon as you start typing a room name. This is probably because there is so much text on top of the screen ("About FAQ Blog Premium") that pushes the input box downwards while at the same time the screen real estate is reduced even more by the keyboard pushing upwards. A small CSS issue. 3.) [Appear.in] Appear.in opens a room with the chat box open on the mobile device browser screen. This is kind of okay, because there is still half of the screen available for the actual video, but it would be nice if the chat box could be closed (by default). Is there a query parameter in the URL that I could use to address this issue, or do you guys have to work on it? [Canonical] Otherwise I'd have to trigger a touch event on the "minimize chat box" button using JavaScript (or so) is there a way to do this? Kind of Selenium powered thingy, or via Qt something? 4.) [Appear.in] In case I have to write Qt code I'd love to assist users in logging in with native input controls. Is there a reliable way / API to perform the login and query the logged-in state, or do I have to sniff the HTML and send a usual POST request mimicking the input form? Same goes for the rooms locked with the user profile, can they be retrieved via an API function? I've read in the FAQs [1] that it's only possible to log in using the native apps (Android, iOS). Looks like I can't do this either using the API [2]. Is there any other (official, yet undocumented) way? [1] https://appear.in/information/faq/ [2] https://developer.appear.in/ 5.) [Canonical] Will I be able to use the NPM-driven appearin-sdk in a (Qt) app? I'll probably have to pack and install this with the app. The docs in [2] say, "Note that the NPM version requires a pre-compilation step using something like browserify or webpack to work." Cheers, Peter -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
