Handloom Haat kiosk apps

The brief

The Vishwakarma Gallery at Handloom Haat, Janpath, opened on 14 August 2026 with six touchscreen kiosk apps. The exhibition was designed by Cultre for the Development Commissioner for Handlooms, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. The gallery panels have no network to read from, so each station had to carry everything it shows.

What we built

We built all six apps for Windows and Android: The Handloom Quiz, Films of the Loom, Voices of the Loom, Living Traditions, Stories from the Archive and Sounds of the Loom. Every film, image and sound is embedded on the device. The only network calls go to two services on the same machine. On 11 August 2026 a full regression run covered 12 test suites and more than 3,000 checks with no failures, including a 47-minute soak under load. Every Android package was also driven on an Android 14 emulator in aeroplane mode.

How it works for the visitor

A visitor touches a station and chooses English or Hindi. The language holds until the station goes idle or someone presses Home, then it returns to English, so nobody inherits the last visitor's choice. The Handloom Quiz asks ten questions, starts easy and moves up after two correct answers in a row.

One detail worth knowing

Testing found that a visitor watching a 20-minute film without touching the screen was thrown back to the screensaver after 90 seconds. The framework now refuses to sleep while any media is playing.