Official Mobile application for CFSummit 2013

[rakulkar]

Checkout iOS and Android apps for CFSummit 2013 - 

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.cfsummit2013&hl=en

    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cfsummit2013/id720190913

The app is built using new mobile features of Splendor and Thunder.

-Ram

[Kev McCabe]

Looks cool, but how do. Log in to see "my schedule" ?

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[Ramchandra Kulkarni]

Mobile app is not linked to the event website. In the mobile app you add sessions and they will appear in "My Schedule"

-Ram

[Tim Cunningham]

Very cool!  Glad you could get it through the App Store approval process in time.

Are you going to make the source code available?

Sent from a mobile device, blame all typos on my phone.

[Ramchandra Kulkarni]

Yes, we will make the source code available after the conference.

-Ram

[Kev McCabe]

Or is it already ;) sorry couldn't resist

On 12 Oct 2013 12:40, "Ramchandra Kulkarni" <raku...@adobe.com> wrote:

Yes, we will make the source code available after the conference.

-Ram

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[Raymond Camden]

Well, you can always extract the HTML/JS from a PhoneGap app. But that wouldn't be the CFML Ram used to generate it.

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[David Epler]

Ram,

I am glad that there is now an App for CFSummit that used the new mobile aspects coming in ColdFusion. After using it do have a few things that I was wonder if they could be tweaked. I am using an iPhone 4S with iOS 7.0.2 so some of it might be device specific.

1) Is it possible to replace the starting PhoneGap logo with something that says "Built using Adobe Technologies" specifically highlighting ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder? Kind of like the old powered by logos that appeared on sites.

2) The view window seems to bleed into the top bar on iOS that shows the signal bars, title, and time. It doesn't look good since you get black pixels overlaying the display. See attached screen capture.

3) There is a horizontal scroll occurring on the Session Survey. I think it is because the Comments text area is too wide.

4) Scrolling in general through out the whole app does not feel native.

Also I too would really like to see the source used to build the application. I really hope it is released at the conference or immediately after (that weekend).

 - David Epler

[Adam Tuttle]

In PhoneGap there's a setting for full-screen (true/false). Please set it to false. I'd like to be able to still have access to the notification bar. As a mobile developer myself, I consider it bad form for informational apps like this one to go full screen. If it were a game or something like that, then full screen would be appropriate... but not this. :)

I, too, look forward to the source.

Adam

[David Epler]

One more suggestion. Lock down the ColdFusion server that is driving the App. Why it isn't running with Secure Profile Enabled I don't know, probably clicked through the installer without enabling it.

On Saturday, October 12, 2013 12:44:25 AM UTC-4, Ram Kulkarni wrote:

[Brian Klaas]

To elaborate on David's point #4 -- most native iPhone apps enable accelerated scrolling, so that if you swipe further and faster down the screen, the scrolling goes faster. This is the one thing that makes this app feel like it's not native. One option for this would be to use native css declarable scrolling, as described here: http://outof.me/native-scrolling-in-jquery-mobilephonegap-applications/

I know it can seem like a small thing, but it's so awesome that you guys put together this app with the technologies in Splendor to show just what you can build, but it's the small things that will make people say "well it's cool, but it just doesn't feel like an iPhone app."

And, if I can offer one more suggestion, make the icons on the main screen a bit bigger. The layout looks like Windows Live Tiles, but I do not expect that there will be automatic updates in each of those tiles. As such, I'd suggest filling each tile with the icon -- or at least making them bigger to better fill the space.

[Ramchandra Kulkarni]

Thanks all for your feedback. We will try to implement your suggestions, but not sure if a new version would be ready in time for the conference (particularly iOS, because of its approval process). Regarding some of the specific issues - 

PhoneGap logo at the startup :  I observed this on iPad, but not on iOS simulator and any of the Android devices. It could be because the default Thunder settings for PhoneGap Build specifies delay for the splash screen, but I have not specified any splash screen in the PhoneGap settings. The splash screen you see is implemented in our code. I will remove the delay and see if it fixes the issue. 

Full Screen Mode: Fullscreen option was on in the PGB preferences of Thunder. This is also a default. I will turn it off.

Native scrolling: I had no idea how to implement scrolling that resembles native scrolling in HTML5. I will checkout the link that Brian mentioned.

Locking down the server: Yes, we should have done that already. 

-Ram

[David Epler]

Ram,

Thanks for taking a look at the feedback that was raised. There are a few others that I'd like to note.

1) Is there any map of the venue that can be added to the app? Specifically to show the rooms where sessions are being help.

2) Is it possible to go directly to the Session Survey from the My Schedule view instead of making me have to go to the home of the application then into Session Survey?

3) The UI to select the Session to rate in the Session Surveys also does not feel like it was designed for mobile, but just a web form dumped into mobile.

4) This is probably device specific as well (iOS7, iPhone 4S) when trying to fill out Comments on the Session Survey, the footer and on-screen keyboard cover up the text area and can not see what is being typed without scrolling down (text area seems to loose focus). See screenshot.

 

5) Flipping Notification and Session Surveys on the application home screen. To me just seems like a better grouping of the rows. 

I do have some other questions regarding how the app was built after monitoring the HTTP traffic it generates (use of direct method calls vs REST), but until the source code is released will wait to ask them.

 - David Epler

[David Epler]

Ram,

I just checked the server again and it has not been locked down yet. At minimum could you at least Enable Secure Profile.

On Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:22:55 PM UTC-4, Ram Kulkarni wrote:

[Ramchandra Kulkarni]

QA had locked down this server, except enabling secure profile. I just enabled it. 

Thanks,

Ram

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[David Epler]

Ram,

I was still able to get to the CFC explorer (prompting for RDS login) until just now. It is now giving "Unsupported Operation. Check application log for more details. " which is what I was expecting. Thanks for taking care of this.