StarcruiserGuide
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StarWardriving
Speaking to D-Beacons in their natural habitat
Installation Data
How beacon interactions are defined
Snowflake IDs
How Datapad makes use of articy:draft
Aztec Barcodes
What's Datapad actually scanning?
SWGE Inspector
Building a portable network datalogger for "StarWardriving"
Breaking the Loop
WebSockets for message loop fun and profit
D-Beacon
Disney's BLE beacons
Debug Menu
Datapad's Backstage
The Message Loop
Android ↔ Datapad
Background
Why focus on Datapad?
Tech Stack Overview
Library and API notes

The StarcruiserGuide Project

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know (or didn’t) about the Star Wars: Datapad, its internal workings, and its usage at Galaxy’s Edge and Galactic Starcruiser.

Articles

  • Background
    • What makes the Datapad so interesting?
  • App Layers
    • Brief overview of the technologies that are used in the frontend and backend
  • Message Loop
    • Details about the communication link between the web frontend and native backend, including some of the common request commands and event types
  • Debug Menu
    • Debugging on the go with various options, overrides, tests, and triggers for every part of the app
  • D-Beacon
    • A brief breakdown of everything we know about Disney’s iBeacon implementation for navigation and show control
  • Breaking the Loop
    • Using WebSockets to open up the message loop, logging and injecting data to modify the Datapad behavior
  • SWGE Inspector
    • Building a portable sensor platform to log motion, GPS, and Bluetooth information while at the parks — “StarWardriving”, if you will