Hey renaissance_man I'm going to copy/paste my response to your PM, so folks don't think I'm ignoring your question.
Here's probably more information than you ever wanted to know about on-set playback graphics:
On AGENTS OF SHIELD, I do all the animation and graphics in After Effects, using parts made in Photoshop and Cinema 4D and render it all as looping playback Quicktime movies. The onset playback operator can then play these loops in the various monitors and tablets, etc... using Director (Adobe) - from a little monitoring station very close to the set where he can see the actors and hit keys that activate the loops on cue. Like if they're looking at a big map on Coulson's big screen and suddenly there's a blip indicating an agent - or if there's a video call from somewhere - the playback operator will activate a loop on cue or synch with the actors and hit a key just as the actor is pretending to activate some action on the tablet, etc...
Occasionally the actor needs to be able to activate something onscreen, and in those cases we make dedicated apps using Director that respond to keys or touchscreen - usually really simple like if an actor touches a button on (for instance) the dungeon controller tablet, the button will light up for a second - and then you'd see the VFX of the containment barrier going up or down. That kind of thing.
So on the Surface tablets we use Director apps running quicktime movie loops - or if there's no action and just a static image, sometimes it'll just be a jpeg.