wePoker features

Nomadic and Spontaneous Poker games!

Play poker even when disconnected from the internet or when no free wifi is available. This is much more common than expected: trains, Eurostar, airplane, bus, metro, car, at holidays, at the beach, bar, ... And those are actually the places where you have spare time to play poker! No set-up or pin code or internet required, just launch the application and start playing with your friends.

Multi-Device interactivity

You can play wePoker on any Android device. The app will adapt to the device it is running on.
For example, here is a picture of wePoker running on a Google TV and two phones:
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Optimise experience based on available resources at that moment in time

For instance:
  1. Two phones (or more) can start a local game
  2. Add a tablet that can serve as the poker table
  3. The GoogleTV serves as a high-end poker table where the audience can spectate at a distance. Pubs can offer a Google TV basestation with the opportunity to win beers! Local gaming with a couple of friends also benefit from relaxed living-room environment. Furthermore, the stable connectivity of a Google TV allows users to join a game over the internet if they want to.
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Interactivity

  • Incognito-mode: Your private cards (hole cards) are only displayed when they are hidden from other players.
  • Curling cards: Obtain the slick physical feeling of curling cards
  • Fold-on-backside: Automated fold when phone is put on its back
  • Swipe gestures: Throwing chips at the table
  • Speech support: Google's Speech Recognition (with Levenshtein implementation to cope with bad recognition results)
  • Talkback: Text-to-speech and customised content descriptions
  • Haptic feedback: Your phone subtly notifies you with vibrations, using the Immersion Haptic Feedback SDK (Note: currently disabled due to interference with Google TV)

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Connectivity: Using the latest Android API's

  • If you are connected to a local Wifi access point:
    • Automated discovery of Poker games on the local Wi-Fi.
  • If you don't have a Wi-Fi connection to a fixed access point:
    • Wifi-Direct: Allows users to set up a local game without any infrastructure required (Android 4.0 or higher). Our intelligent priority connectivity layer configures all complex Wifi-Direct settings automatically.
    • NFC: Allows users to join a game by simply holding the phone near the tablet (NFC Beam)
    • RFID: Allows users to scan an RFID tag to join a specific game
    • QRCode: For devices without NFC and Wifi-Direct, we support QRCodes to join a game without having to go to any settings menu.

Accessibility

  • Check for audio feedback (when the microphone plugged in)
  • Set content description for all UI fields to improve talkback
  • Enforced UI view where all cards are accessible (even if there is a dedicated poker table)
  • Allows visually impaired users to compete with sighted people without game-specific advantages for any side.

Open Source

Best of all: wePoker is open source! You can grab the source on GitHub.
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