What can we do with UCWA API (Lync)? and What can we not do with UCWA API? - ucwa

Please explain what are features available in UCWA API (Lync)? I'm interested in the following:
Screen Sharing?
Video Chatting?
Voice Chatting?
Send a file?
I want to access UCWA API in android code, is it possible?

As per the About link of UCWA, API helps you to do the following things,
-Anonymous Web Chat.
-Support audio conferencing
-Light up IM & Presence in your Line-Of-Business app, including Windows 8, iPad, and others
-Inline Instant Messaging into your application (Contextual Communications)
-Search for Skype and/or business contacts
-Better together with UCMA Customer Care family of apps
Also you can refer this site UCWA Capabilities

A good wealth of information surrounding UCWA is available at http://ucwa.lync.com paying specific attention to the Documentation menu. A good rundown of features can be found at Core-Features which do not currently (CU3+) include screen sharing, video, voice, data collaboration (sending a file).
It is possible to place a audio call using a feature named Call-Via-Work which requires the user provide a callback number that Lync will use to connect you with the remote party, but it is not exactly the same as an audio call between two parties.
I want to access UCWA API in android code, is it possible?
There are sample libraries available (UCWA Helper Libraries) in JavaScript, but it is quite possible to use the libraries to construct code to run on an Android platform (Java, etc).

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How to obtain list of Music Sources from the Sonos household?

I am trying to get a list of music services to which the Sonos household has a subscription. Is it possible to obtain such information from HTTP API or from any other source? If yes, then under what conditions?
I have analyzed the traffic between the Sonos Connect and Windows Sonos Controller. I discover, that information about music services is transmitted from Connect to Controller inside the ThirdPartyMediaServersX tag of the NOTIFY HTTP request. But this content is encoded in the base64-like cipher.
<e:propertyset xmlns:e="urn:schemas-upnp-org:event-1-0">
<e:property>
<ThirdPartyMediaServersX>
2:oZoYgaU5pqEq6IauQ1hYVS0oCUJnqbCkJL1vXP/DoeijejEwUBQT8UG0CksUG9VcarvLhCyElhKTUjfhQt0SAcV2oBOyLJ5BCmjd7TcJfPrVuTGHczd5/AS2tgj85n0U9yU9EwwHROFb5uV09syZNLVaZuJnENCWRKatIq1SNMm1SE4tHneLG6ULQoDOR50nf7TwyRQbkit8Bvy+kZyNPlrgBZFGmizoRmYjW8COFvHJpZhREEGruhQ2J6A8gnQOWyFzstAyHNZeLqp2xcNGnts6f2DQ56r/ducstbibFH0SZOZC0XM/BB4DvOT8UalezPL0R9/s8Jibm5T6mS1FWk14GWg2RMmRBIVE5G/gG2c=
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I expect to obtain list of music services, but the actual list were hidden.
As you figured out, Sonos disabled this functionality some time ago.
I've spend a lot of time figuring out how it works, and I now have a "work-a-round". External music services describes what to do.
And sonos-ts has support for external music services. If you read my first link and check the code in this library you should probably be able to figure out how to do that in your programming language.
I know this is no access to the list that is kept by Sonos, but this work-a-round also saves the tokens on the device for every client application to use.
Recently I've found someone who build an music service emulator. So that are both sides of external music services.
This is not supported by the Sonos API.

Broadcast live audio on my website

I am having a requirement to broadcast live audio on my website. Scenario is
1) one user will talk/sing in my application and
2) his followers will have to listen that live audio instantly in the same application.
Can you please suggest me any 3rd party libraries for this?
Note: I am developing my web application in ASP.Net MVC5.
Thanks in advance.
Towards that goal, if you plan on using WebRTC, you'll need to add media servers that route media around.
Look at Kurento, Jitsi or Janus for open source alternatives - especially if you plan on adding video support to it.
You can also try using Asterisk or FreeSWITCH - these are telephony based solutions but can be re-purposed to use WebRTC and offer a conference call like experience where you mute everyone and have a single speaker "broadcast" his audio to all the rest.

Device tells us we need Google Play Services to Use Maps on Android device

we've been working with a 3rd party Android device that uses API 17. We want to make a native Google API app so that we can map data for our customers. What happens is the app crashes and it says "Google Play Services required". Is there a workaround to this? can we somehow embed or package a file that is good enough to use Maps? We've spoken with the hardware company and they made a decision to not allow google play services. We are partnering with them to release the device with a couple of apps we offer with the device. Any help is appreciated
Google Play services enables Maps to run on your Android devices, as per Google statement:
With Google Play services, your app can take advantage of the latest,
Google-powered features such as Maps, Google+, and more, with
automatic platform updates distributed as an APK through the Google
Play store. This makes it faster for your users to receive updates and
easier for you to integrate the newest that Google has to offer.
That means you need Google Play services to make Google Maps work.
Download it here.

Roku with Instant TV Channel and BrightScript Differences

I am a beginner for developing an app for Roku platform. I had few queries on instant tv channel and the BrightScript.
I tried installing the BrightScript plugin in eclipse to start with the Roku app development. I have CDN which provides set of web services which i can consume to show the videos or the content.
I have also created the account in Instant tv channel which takes inputs as URLs and easily I can create the channel and upload to the Roku app dev store.
Here my question is that
whether I should go ahead with BrightScript programming language for app development ?
Or Instant tv channel setup is better for creating my channels ?
Why people choose BrightScript instead of Instant TV Channel ? would like to know the Pros and cons of these two ways..
I might be wrong in understanding the usage of these. How can I develop the app for Roku Platform?
I have referred : http://forums.roku.com/ forums , http://www.instanttvchannel.com/roku/quick to understand the differences between these two techniques of developing the Roku app. I have also followed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQzk_Iq9dYI&feature=youtu.be to understand the app development and created the app.
Also Eclipse+ BrightScript plugin integration i did by following the http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/Eclipse+Plugin+Guide link
I've never used instant tv, but basically Brightscript means that you have full control (relatively) over your app.

Spotify Web API to control playback on connect devices

Is there any way to use an API to control playback on my registered spotify connect devices? I'm not trying to create or add a new connect devices but control playback to them.
Is there any official or reverse engineering discussion on how to do this?
As far as I can tell, there is no way to do this currently.
That said, it's also unclear if or when this feature will be added. Spotify hasn't updated its api code in months. It also appears that the login functionality is broken on my app too. Spotify doesn't seem to be easy to work with.