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msaspence
January 25, 2012
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Transcript
Matthew Spence Web Developer @msaspence University of Kent
Kent Mobile Building a mobile “something” for the University of
Kent
Mobile’s going to be BIG
Mobile’s getting BIGGER
Mobile’s is BIG
Mobile’s is HUGE
“ BUILD SOMETHING ANYTHING
“ …but don’t spend any time doing it.
What can we build in 2 sprints? 8 man weeks?
The Nature of the CONTENT creates VARYING PRIORITIES on different
PLATFORMS
What can we build in 2 sprints? 8 man weeks?
Maps Free PCs Timetables Feedback IT Help
jQuery Mobile
“ It Just kinda SUCKS * *at what we want
Sencha Touch
ROCKS
Leaflet OSM Hard coded JSON Maps
List View Custom Cells Local Store Free PCs
Timetables Feed finder Utilises native calendar app
Sub Apps Scalable IA ‘Cool’ factor Identity
! 4 WEEKS!
! SUCCESS!
? SUCCESS?
? Do our users want a mobile web app?
? What about dumb phones? SMS?
NOT Sencha’s perfect
NOT Mobile browsers are perfect
NOT all MOBILE BROWSERS are created EQUAL
IS iOS’s perfect * *so close it hurts at least
NOT Android’s perfect
FAR FROM Blackberry’s perfect * *like painfully far from
? What’s next?
Kent Mobile www.kent.ac.uk/mobile github.com/unikent/mobile * *unreleased alpha ** FYI only,
not a maintained repo’ **
?