Today we return to the load with the Apple TV, the little black box of entertainment of the company of the bitten apple that, for many of us, is somewhat forgotten, it is about time that they surprised us with a new model. Many are the applications that we can install either on our Mac or on our iOS devices to interact with the Apple TV, but few give an acceptable user experience.
In his desire to improve the options that we can make with the Apple TV and thus be able to inject a little emotion into the device to maintain its sales, Apple updated its software some time ago allowing us to do mirroring through protocol AirPlay, getting us to send what we see on our iDevice to the TV screen in a very simple way.
As we have anticipated, there are many applications that allow us to control Apple TV from our iOS devices, but of all the ones I have used, the one that has given me the best user experience is the one that I show you today, AirBrowser. When we use the mirroring With, for example, an ipad, what happens is that the screens are duplicated and what is on the iPad screen appears as is on the television, so that if we want to access a certain part of the screen we have to look at the device to press on the desired area and then write. We talk, for example, about the use of Safari in mirroring.
However, in the case of the AirBrowser application, the device screen becomes a kind of TrackPad that not only detects the keystrokes, but also allows us to move a little arrow as a cursor across the screen as if we were in the OS system X. As we all know in the Remote application of Apple itself with which we can control the Apple TV a cursor does not appear and what happens is that it jumps from screen area to screen area.
With AirBrowser, you can go much faster not having to look at the iPad or iPhone to be able to navigate through the Apple TV and whatever you want to share by mirroring.
You can try the application since there is a paid version at a price of € 4,49 and a free version with certain options not available.
Free version:
Paid version: