AirPlay, and Google Cast, and Miracast, oh my!

AirServer not only turns your big screen or projector into a universal screen mirror receiver, you can actually mirror screens from multiple devices. This means that if you ever wanted to do that Star Wars marathon but only have time for one episode (not necessarily the first), you can mirror every episode from different devices onto the same screen simultaneously. It does this over a wireless network by implementing all the major screen mirroring technologies such as AirPlay, Google Cast, and Miracast into one universal receiver.

The above example is probably more illustrative than practical, but there are tons of useful applications for AirServer outside of entertainment.

With Qt, Any Device Can Make it to the Big Screen!

Eager to try out AirServer yourself? It's available for Windows, iOS, MacOS, Android, Embedded Linux - it even works nicely with an Xbox, and there are more platforms coming soon!

But how did such a small team manage to deploy their software on so many different platforms, you wonder? With Qt, AirServer's team of four developers could do the job of fourteen! Without Qt, they would have had to code and bugfix for each platform separately. With Qt, all they have to do is maintain one code base. This saved AirServer over 70% development time and cost.

They used Qt Quick to create the GUI and Qt Multimedia for its rich media background elements. APIs from the Qt Network module handle the communications between devices over TCP/IP.

Special mention goes to Qt Quick Layouts, which AirServer used to manage their smart layouting system. It arranges the mirrored screens in a way to make optimal use of the mirroring surface and instantly adapts the alignment of your smart devices. If you would, say, mirror a horizontally aligned desktop together with a vertically aligned smartphone, AirServer displays the two screens side-by-side. If you then tilt your smartphone horizontally, not only will AirServer adopt the alignment, but also move the screens on top of each other to maximize their individual sizes and minimize blank space.