Our Challenges:

• Run app on rooted kiosk devices.
• Change Views as per Campaign Type.
• Change Campaign / Content as per Scheduled Date and Time Segments.
• Choose shell file and execute script in the application.
• Update App silently in mobile device using command.
• Support Kiosk Printer to print receipt.
• Reboot Device on request from Web Portal.
• Daily reboot device at scheduled time.
• Load contents via removable media (USB, SC Card) using Custom File Picker.
• Handle app crash and reboot device on 3 time app crash.
• And Many more...

How the application works in the mobile devices:

Welcome Screen:

Whenever the user will install the app on the mobile device then welcome screen will come up first.

Through this screen application confirms about the Device ID number:

If the user has the Device Id for their device they can login in the application by entering the Device ID.

If the user doesn't have the Device ID number then they need to generate the Device ID first for their devices and then they can login in the application.Device ID can be generated by mobile app and web app both.

While the login process, device will do the validation about the

• Internet connection
• Connection to the application
• Validation Device ID Number

After validation, app will play the Default Content and Assigned content will start playing in the background.

While playing the content on the device in the kiosk mode, user can tap the five (5) times on top right of the screen to activate the login/password dialog box.

After entering the password in the login/password dialog box user will land up on the Dashboard.

Dashboard Screen:

Dashboard shows below elements about the device,campaign, and activity:

• Device ID and Store Location
• Internet Speed with a visual Speedometer
• Last Heartbeat: last communication(sync) done with the Server.
• Connected network Type with Network Detail
• A Line chart to display Heartbeat history for every day
• Up Time: A Visual Pie chart to indicate how long app running with Internet connectivity and without inter connectivity.
• Device Storage Space
• Current Content Playing
• System Information: Device Details, Install Date and Last Boot Time, Resolution etc.
• There are 5 Buttons on Right Side:
  • Play Content: It will redirect to Playing Content Screen.
  • Diagnostics: It will redirect to diagnostics Screen.
  • Content: It will redirect to Content Screen.
  • App Settings: It will redirect to App Settings Screen.
  • Exit App: It will close the application.

Diagnostics Screen:

• Check Server Connection: Check Server Connection will ping the server and perform an HTTP request, and check for a valid response from the website. It will redirect to Check Server Connection Screen. It ensures the connection of the application with the server.
• Lift and Learn Testing: will monitor and report keypresses to test lift and learn hardware is functioning correctly.
• This screen show the report of each and every lift activity for the campaign.
• Touchscreen Tests: this screen perform tests and monitors touchscreen for any touch errors. As you can see from the below image it is displaying the 5 finger’s touch activity on the screen. This screen will check the touch sensitivity of the screen.
• Force Crash will forcefully crash the application and restart again.
• Exit App Exits from the App and drops back to the operating system.

Content:

Content screen displays the current and scheduled content and perform other content-related operations.

The above screen displaying the Name of the content and showing when the current content plays until.

• All the scheduled campaigns for the device is also displaying on it .All the campaigns can be assigned from the web portal only.
• Through the Manual Heartbeat the app will forcefully sync all data with the server.
• Through the Load Default Content loads the content from the Removable media and Copy to device and play automatically.Here removable media is like pendrive.

App Settings:

The App Settings screen allows the user to make a few changes in settings that way the App will functioning. These all settings are in synchronized mode with server.

If user change anything in the app then it will directly affect to the server and same if admin change any settings for this device on the server then app will sync that updated settings from the server.

Example: Admin can change device volume from the web portal and user can change the device volume from the app settings screen.

User can also execute Shell script directly from the app.

Reboot device button will reboot the device and app will start automatically after the reboot process done.

Downloading Content on Playing Content Screen:

If any campaign assigned to the device then app will automatically start downloading the campaign and once download completed, it will automatically play assigned content on the same device.

As the above mobile application’s features and functionality explained, any store owner/store vendors can display the campaign in all the mobile and tablet devices in their store.

For that store owners/store vendors first needs to create the campaign and schedule that campaign as well.

Assigned those campaigns to mobile devices where the campaign will play at the scheduled time.

All the mobile devices which will play the campaign will have the app installed on them.