LiveView for iPhone

Mobile Application Design & Prototyping Tool

2008

LiveView is a specialized remote screen viewing application intended as a tool to help designers create graphics for mobile applications, it has also proven to be useful for creating quick and dirty simulations, demos, and experience prototypes.

For visual designers — Develop pixel–perfect graphics for the iPhone quickly and easily with a live view of your canvas/artboard while you work.

For interaction designers — With your iPhone tethered via WiFi, you can interact with software prototypes and demos running on your Mac to communicate and iterate your concepts quickly.

For everyone — If you've ever needed to press a button from afar or wished that you could take a piece of your monitor with you across the room, this app may prove useful from time to time.

Inspired by and created to support the vibrant prototyping culture at IUAV.

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The LiveView Screencaster application is required in order to use LiveView for iPhone. The application automatically checks for updates weekly by default, this can be disabled in the preferences. This software is provided without even a semblance of a warrantee or guarantee, best of luck to you.

Download LiveView for iPhone Download LiveView Screencaster for Mac

Mac OS X 10.5 and iPhone OS 2.2 Required

Instructions

Start the LiveView Screencaster application on your Mac and place the window over the portion of the screen that you wish to screencast.
With your iPhone connected to the same WiFi network as your Mac, open LiveView on your iPhone.
Your Mac's “Computer Name” should be listed on your iPhone as it appears in the “Sharing” pane of your “System Preferences”. Be patient, depending on your WiFi connection it could take up to 30 seconds for the name to appear.

Tips

For increased performance, connect directly to your Mac via a computer–to–computer WiFi connection. Choose “Create Network…” from the Airport menu bar icon to create a computer–to–computer network.
Bonjour auto–discovery works quickest when the LiveView Screencaster is running before starting LiveView on your iPhone.
Try connecting multiple iPhones to a single screencaster. Only the first one to connect can send mouse events. This is immensely useful for presentations.