Kent Mobile

Building a mobile "something" at the University of Kent

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1. Matthew Spence Web Developer @msaspence University of Kent  
2. Kent Mobile Building a mobile “something” for the University of Kent
3. Mobile’s going to be BIG
4. Mobile’s getting BIGGER
5. Mobile’s is BIG
6. Mobile’s is HUGE
7. “ BUILD SOMETHING ANYTHING
8. “ …but don’t spend any time doing it.
9. What can we build in 2 sprints? 8 man weeks?
10. The Nature of the CONTENT creates VARYING PRIORITIES on different PLATFORMS
11. What can we build in 2 sprints? 8 man weeks? Maps Free PCs Timetables Feedback IT Help
12. jQuery Mobile
13. “ It Just kinda SUCKS * *at what we want
14. Sencha Touch
15. ROCKS
16. Leaflet OSM Hard coded JSON Maps
17. List View Custom Cells Local Store Free PCs
18. Timetables Feed finder Utilises native calendar app
19. Sub Apps Scalable IA ‘Cool’ factor Identity
20. ! 4 WEEKS!
21. ! SUCCESS!
22. ? SUCCESS?
23. ? Do our users want a mobile web app?
24. ? What about dumb phones? SMS?
25. NOT Sencha’s perfect
26. NOT Mobile browsers are perfect
27. NOT all MOBILE BROWSERS are created EQUAL
28. IS iOS’s perfect * *so close it hurts at least
29. NOT Android’s perfect
30. FAR FROM Blackberry’s perfect * *like painfully far from
31. ? What’s next?
32. Kent Mobile www.kent.ac.uk/mobile github.com/unikent/mobile * *unreleased alpha ** FYI only, not a maintained repo’ **
33. ?