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mobile app - starting with posting research notes #125

Open sdosemagen opened 12 years ago

sdosemagen commented 12 years ago

Point: Liz Team: Stewart, Sara Importance: Exploratory project

Think that the website for most people should be an app - phone/tablet- mobile interfaces would allow for easier platform for searching content - easy way to inject things to website and as a way for people to interact (timeline- who can write- scoping or screen shot of what it looks like- how many months)

rjcorwin commented 12 years ago

On my most recent project we decided to design for mobile first. Using the jQuery mobile library and designing for mobile first turned out to be a lot of fun. The jQuery mobile theme for Drupal is pretty darn good http://drupal.org/project/mobile_jquery. Managing two separate themes is expensive though. You have to theme everything twice, thus the "mobile first" mentality. If you make a mobile app that kicks enough ass then why bother with writing a complicated theme for people with huge monitors? Unless you have lots of money just lying around :P.

rjcorwin commented 12 years ago

Also, I think the argument for making the website more mobile friendly is pretty strong given that folks would find it useful to access documentation and produce documentation in the field with their mobile devices.

jywarren commented 12 years ago

For a minimal version of this app -- one which just allows you to take a photo and upload it as a research note with a short text blurb - this video of making an example app demonstrates pretty much exactly that: http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-upload-image-website-from-apple-ios-application-333979/

sweet. But probably this should have it's own GitHub project, like "plots-mobile".

jywarren commented 12 years ago

http://reecon.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/uploading-files-to-http-server-using-post-android-sdk/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6166121/drupal-android-app-login-persistence

jywarren commented 12 years ago

Very nice online interface creator which generates actual code -- although we'd of course have to integrate it with the PLOTS drupal theme:

https://codiqa.com/

rjcorwin commented 12 years ago

Nice! It looks like it builds html documents with jQuery mobile on board. Definitely looks like a good prototyping tool. JQuery mobile is soooo shiney http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.1.0/

RJ Steinert http://rjsteinert.com

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Jeffrey Warren reply@reply.github.com wrote:

Very nice online interface creator which generates actual code -- although we'd of course have to integrate it with the PLOTS drupal theme:

https://codiqa.com/

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/jywarren/plots/issues/125#issuecomment-6434922

jywarren commented 12 years ago

seriously it is so nice... i used it for the mobile version of http://spectralworkbench.org/spectra/show/241 (only viewable on mobile phone browsers)

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:45 PM, R.J. Steinert < reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

Nice! It looks like it builds html documents with jQuery mobile on board. Definitely looks like a good prototyping tool. JQuery mobile is soooo shiney http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.1.0/

RJ Steinert http://rjsteinert.com

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Jeffrey Warren reply@reply.github.com wrote:

Very nice online interface creator which generates actual code -- although we'd of course have to integrate it with the PLOTS drupal theme:

https://codiqa.com/

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/jywarren/plots/issues/125#issuecomment-6434922

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/jywarren/plots/issues/125#issuecomment-6460124