We just came across a neat little iOS app called AirView which, as you can probably tell from the name, transforms your iOS devices into AirPlay video receivers. It’s dead easy to use, find out how it works after the break.
This free app allows you to turn your device into a streaming media player, drawing its material from another iPhone or iPad, or from your PC or Mac. It’s a little unstable and probably won’t last long in the App Store, but it’s also free and has some great functionality when it works.
Fire up your AirPlay app on the device you want to watch on, and load a video on another device, like iTunes. In the video window, you should see an AirPlay icon — click it, and the program automatically detects your receiving device and streams the video over a local Wi-Fi network to the other device. AirPlay seems to work best for YouTube and downloaded videos. It doesn’t support music or photos yet, but app developer Clement Vasseur has written that he plans to add other media types. That is, if Apple doesn’t bounce this highly functional but free app from the App Store before then.
And since iOS can also output video via AirPlay, this means you can use AirView to either grab AirPlay streams from your computer’s iTunes, or you can stream videos from one iOS device to another (provided that they are both running iOS 4.2 and above, of course).
