#Type2phone example full
Now, Reflector is a cool little application and one I was intended to purchase anyways ( it’s one of the easiest ways to screen capture an iOS game at full speed without having to run the simulator. Here is Codea running mirrored on my desktop using Reflector. On my home network, it’s simply flawless.
In the above picture, I am out at a coffee shop with both devices tethered through my Android phone and it was a bit choppy at times when running a game or movie, but flawless when programming in Codea. So long as your network connection, the results are pretty solid.
#Type2phone example mac os
The easiest way to do this is with Reflector a 13$ purchase that runs on either Mac OS or Windows an enables you to mirror your iPad display on your desktop using Airplay. Now typing and looking at a different device is kinda awkward, so I decided to mirror my iPad’s display to screen. If you are running on a PC, I am certain you will be able to find similar utilities, as long as you have bluetooth that is. Use Type2Phone instead, even if it has a horrible name! 🙂 It’s one of those slick little utilities that sets out to do one thing and does it well, I appreciate those. It doesn’t appear to be maintained, doesn’t work with iOS6 and costs twice as much. There is a more expensive app called iKeyboard, the one you will find if you google. Even more important, it handles connects and disconnects very well. Type2Phone has a 4.99$ price tag, but it works very well and has plenty of options. Instead of using a Bluetooth Keyboard, I am using my MacBook as one using the application Type2Phone, a simple little application that acts like a virtual bluetooth keyboard.Ĭonnect and pair like a normal bluetooth device, then when the app has focused, anything types is sent to your iPad and the iPad’s keyboard is hidden. Here is my Codea dev environment in action! Which ironically enough is more than Codea costs! I was going to buy the one app anyways for other reasons, so that was a non-factor for me. There is a price tag attached with this setup though, about 16$ ( or 1416$ if you count the MacBook and iPad Mini…). In the end I came up with the following solution and I actually rather like it.
I didn’t really feel like spending 50-100$ on a portable one, I generally can’t stand them if I’m honest. I could have hooked up a Bluetooth keyboard, but I don’t want to carry one around with me, especially as the one I own is massive. map the gamepad's buttons in controller mate like shown on this picture (which shows 4 buttons only), you need to use the "NOT building block" to set a key when pressing the button down and a different key when releasing the button.ĬontrollerMate has a limitation for mapping buttons when it is not registered, no idea if that is enough for setting up a whole gamepad.I mentioned yesterday that i’ve become rather smitten with Codea but didn’t exactly find the prospect of typing on the iPad screen appealing.
#Type2phone example install
install Type2Phone on your Mac to connect your Mac keyboard with your iOS device via bluetooth. Type2Phone to simulate a bluetooth keyboard ControllerMate to map the keys (up and down separated): So I thought it must be somehow possible to simulate an iCade controller via bluetooth by mapping the output of a normal USB gamepad to a virtual Mac keyboard and sending Macs keyboard output via bluetooth to the iOS device. For a VR setup I need an iOS game controller but usually I have no time and money to waste and if I want something then I want it immediately.
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