API Libraries

Download API Libraries

Here you can download the APIs that will enable your application to fling content to a large display connected to a flint receiver device. Flint provides developers both sender SDK and receiver SDK. Sender SDK will be provided on multiple platforms including HTML5, Android, iOS etc., and Receiver SDK is provided on Firefox OS in JavaScript.

Sender API libraries

• Web Sender API: Web Sender API is available for Firefox OS 2.2, Please download flint_sender_sdk.js and add it in your Firefox OS app.

• Android Sender API

  • Git Clone the Flint Android Sender SDK project
  • Add the flint-android-sender-sdk, v7-appcompat and v7-mediarouter library to your project. For setup instructions, read Android Support Library Setup and be sure you follow the section about Adding libraries with resources.

• iOS Sender API

  • To set up your iOS project, download the iOS Sender API library
  • Unzip the API package, then add to your iOS project
  • Supports iOS version 6 and later

Receiver API library

• Flint Receiver API
  • Just include the JavaScript libraries URL into your receiver apps.

      <script src="//openflint.github.io/flint-web-sdk/out/flint_receiver_sdk.js"></script>
      <script src="//openflint.github.io/flint-web-sdk/out/libs/mediaplayer.js"></script>

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API Reference

The reference provides API documentation for two types of applications:

• A sender application that manages the user interaction with the content.
• A receiver application that runs in the devices with Flint Service.

Sender App API Reference

For sender apps, Flint supports development for the Android, iOS and HTML5 with the following documentation.

• Android API Reference
• iOS API Reference
• Web API Reference

Receiver App API Reference

The receiver app is an web application running on the receiver device. The API is documented here:

• Receiver API Reference

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Sample apps

• Flint Player: The default receiver media player provided by openflint team
  • Author: openflint
  • Project: https://github.com/openflint/flint-player
• Android Dice Game Demo: Shaking your phone to roll the dice on the big screen
  • Author: wangxianfeng
  • Project: https://github.com/openflint/dice-game-demo
• Android Simple Play Demo: The simplest video player using Flint SDK
  • Author: weigesang
  • Project: https://github.com/openflint/simple-player-demo
• Android Fling Video Sample: A full function video player sample app
  • Author: weigesang
  • Project: http://github.com/openflint/fling_videos_sender_android
• Android Camera Sharing: To share Android phone webcam to Matchstick dongle with WebRTC technology
  • Author: toandrew
  • Project: https://github.com/openflint/android-webrtc-demo
• iOS Fling Video Sample: A full function video player sample app
  • Author: tannyowen
  • Project: http://github.com/openflint/fling_videos_sender_ios
• Web Face Mask Game: To show how face detection working with Matchstick
  • Author: tianye
  • Project: https://github.com/openflint/web-face-mask-game-demo
• Camera Sharing: To share Firefox OS phone webcam to the Matchstick dongle with WebRTC technology
  • Author: jianglu
  • Project: https://github.com/openflint/camera-sharing
• FlintXBMC: FlintXBMC is based on Kodi with Flint SDK integrated
  • Author: wudongyang
  • Project: https://github.com/wudongyang/flintxbmc
• Video Streaming for Firefox OS
  • Author: fabricedesre
  • Project: https://github.com/fabricedesre/matchstick