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I finished a GW2 Android App I started during the BWEs

Back during the beta weekends I came across this post about the awesome status displays Guild Wars 2 is capable of displaying on gaming keyboards. I don't have a LCD screen on my keyboard, but my phone is always on my desk, so I figured why not try to get that same output on my phone instead.

After a few months of using this myself I finally polished up the app enough for others to use. I'm giving it away free so feel free to give it a shot. I'm calling it GW2hud.

For anyone curious how this works, gaming keyboard drivers provide a DLL that Guild Wars 2 uses to send images to the keyboard display. I just provide an alternative DLL that sends the images to a phone instead using the local network. It works really well. At the moment I have it restricted to loading only for Guild Wars 2, mostly because I've only heavily used it there and don't want any chance of problems for others with other games.

Feedback is welcome, I hope someone else enjoys using this!

Posted Jan 20, 2013, 5:15 PM UTC

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