FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spring Design today announced a new upgrade to its ScreenShare® app that can enable wireless sharing of video, music, photos, web pages and many types of documents from your phone to your tablet and your home speakers and HDTV. Three dual-screen ScreenShare mini-apps are included in the release: “ScreenShare Organizer”, “ScreenShare Photo” and “ScreenShare Browser”. These dual-screen apps can also support phone remote control to initiate consumption of phone-based content on the tablet. For Android tablets with ability to support audio/video systems connected through HDMI or audio port, each of the three mini-apps can also execute remote controls on A/V systems through the tablet.
Spring Design shipped the first dual-screen app, ScreenShare Browser, in December 2012 and included a Browser app that lets you extend a web page from the phone to a tablet. The current update adds new ScreenShare Organizer and ScreenShare Photo apps. The Organizer app facilitates the viewing, navigation, editing of your phone’s personal local content directly on your tablet. The Photo app offers optimized dual screen wireless photo sharing and is integrated with the Organizer app. In the upcoming September release, video and music apps will be further dual-screen optimized to support greater control on devices for media streaming.
ScreenShare TV support is available only through tablets that have TV support through HDMI. There is no extra set-top box required for TV support. The three dual-screen apps support initiating a tablet action from your phone and let you use your HDMI-enabled tablet as a set-top box for your HDTV at home. More refined remote tablet and TV control will be offered in the September release.
“The ScreenShare app architecture can facilitate rapid local search of new content on the phone, yet offer an immersive user experience to consume the phone-based content on the tablet. You can ScreenShare any friend’s personal phone photo, music and video collections with a tablet and enjoy the best TV and speakers connected to it. You can remote control your best home speakers to play your phone’s songs wirelessly, even from your backyard or driveway, through your phone and tablet. There is no new hardware needed to use this free app and you can bring your tablet with you on the road as a portable A/V system.” said Spring Design CEO, Albert Teng.
FUTURE PLAN
ScreenShare app architecture can support sharing from any one device to any other device. The current release supports Android phone and tablets. Future devices could include PCs, Macs, Google TVs, portable navigation devices, iPads and wearable devices like watch or glass.
Spring Design is open to license its IP and associated development tools and apps to interested parties to support their products incorporating the ScreenShare app architecture.
Find the free version with the new product name, ScreenShare (phone) that pairs with its free tablet sister app: the free version ScreenShare (Tablet) on Google Play.
Free tablet version
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.springdesign.screenshare.browser.client
Free phone version
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.springdesign.screenshare.browser.server
View a demo of ScreenShare at http://youtu.be/Ygng30ir1tc.
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* ScreenShare® is a registered trademark of Spring Design Inc.
