Once you have successfully established a session between a Anyware Client and a PCoIP host, you can start developing your own Anyware client. To begin, set up your client development environment, as discussed next.
To set up your client development environment:
In order to customize your session client, you must create a client branding package using the HP Custom Branding Package Utility. The HP Custom Branding Package Utility can be found in the following location:
To create a custom branding package:
This section includes instructions for building a custom client application by utilizing the SDK.
You can customize the branding of your custom session client in several ways by creating a client branding package. These customizations affect the user’s experience once they have connected to their PCoIP session. The following elements can be customized in the session client:
Invoking the Broker Client API is a two-step procedure, where as a first step, the Broker Client Example is built. The second step consists of running either a prebuilt PCoIP binary, or a prebuilt AWS binary.
Code is an API Demonstration Only
It is possible to redirect USB flash drives with the Anyware Client SDK for Linux. The following steps outline how to enable support for remoting USB devices:
Install usb_helper to /usr/libexec/pcoip-client.
Grant the nescessary capability to the usb_helper by running:
The Linux has elements which are part of the operating system user interface and cannot be modified programmatically, as described in the following sections.
The Client SDK for Linux does not support Wayland on Ubuntu 22.04 machines. If Wayland is enabled on your machine, the Anyware Client is unable to retrieve the monitor display EDID, resulting in display issues while connecting to a PCoIP session.
Follow the steps given below to disable Wayland, and use Xorg instead.
Establishing a PCoIP session involves a number of key components, including system actors, PCoIP session phases, and connection brokers as discussed next.
There are at least three components that work together to create a PCoIP session:
The following table contains a brief description of the header files included in the Anyware Client SDK for Linux:
Note: Location of the Header Files
The header files are available at the following locations in the Anyware Client SDK for Linux package: