[sakai-gsoc][proposal] Sakai OAE native mobile app and Sakai CLE mobile app

[Mai Giménez]

Good evening,

I am Mayte Giménez, and I am a last year student of computer science at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. Where I am finishing the specialty on languages and artificial intelligence. 

Right now I am working at University at Sakai development team with David Roldan. I have been working with Sakai for the last 3 years, always with scholarships, 2 years at the University and another one with Samoo.

I am contributing to the community of sakai, always, whenever I can. I have a profile at [0], my nickname there is magifa. 

Last year I participated  in the Gsoc  program with David Roldan mentoring me. And I  developed an Android application. You can find what I have developed here [1] 

I am really interested in the two ideas linked to mobile devices. I know how important it is to have an application for as many devices as possible, minimising the maintenance and  development, so Steve Swomsburg's idea is great.  However, native applications has a lot of advantages, applications run faster and nicer, so I am also interested in working with Ian Boston developing a native mobile app. I hope this is not a problem. 

I have good android experience, I am really interested in learn objective-C, since I had my first mac, but I never found good project until now. You can see my last year proposal at [2], where I design a mock up of the application. 

I told Steve I will send him some snapshots of the mobile application but I right now I don't have the environment ready. So what version/s are the most appropriated? Maybe 2.8.x?  

Thanks for your effort.

 

Greetings, 

Mayte

[0] - https://jira.sakaiproject.org

[1] - https://bitbucket.org/mrs.hopper/nellodee 

[2] - http://www.colorines.org/Gsoc2010/Sakai/android/idea.html

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Mayte,

Thanks for your interest. 

The two mobile app ideas are pretty much completely separate. Sakai CLE (aka Sakai 2) is completely different to Sakai OAE. They use different datasources and are conceptually different. So it really comes down to your preference. My idea is to use PhoneGap so that we can target as many devices as possible, and using some mobile frameworks like Query Mobile or jqTouch ,we can achieve a nice interface. I also have some ideas on institutional customisation.

cheers,

Steve

[Ian Boston]

Steve is right the apps/projects/ideas are separate operating off
different feeds.

For the OAE app, we haven't made any decisions about the framework. It
would be nice to make it work on as many platforms as possible, but we
also want to be able to distribute the App widely. Doing a PhoneGap,
Titanium or other framework app for iOS at least will require pushing
it through the App store or deploying under an iTunes enterprise
account, so a pure HTML version may be better, however, we wont get
access to location and some of the hardware if we do that.

I think the choice of Native deployment of app or HTML for OAE really
depends on what the app is able to do.

Ian


On Mar 23, 10:31 am, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsb...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Mai Giménez]

Good morning Ian,

I know these ideas are different. But I am interested in both of them, so I have made two different applications. 

I thought that native application it would be develop with android and/or iphone sdk. I have good experience with android sdk, and I don't mind to invest gsoc money in getting an ios developer account, so when the app will be ready we could let it in the market or in the app store. I have developed with xcode before, and I really loved the environment, so it won't be any problem. 

Anyway, I have made my application thinking about working with the sdks, so if it is finally an html app my schedule it will be absolutely wrong. (Have you read it?) I could change it. I hope this won't be any problem.

Cheers,

Mayte

[Ian Boston]

Hi Mayte,

That sounds fine, as I said the app platform and development should be driven by what we are trying to achieve rather than the technology. When looking at the submission we will look at what you have said, how you have planned and your willingness to adapt to changes as they appear. Its clear that you are prepared to do that. Since we have no control over the App Store acceptance process, we may find that we need to adapt if we want to get the any iOS app distributed. Android is less of a concern, but all of that is part of an unknown future. Your application, as it stands is fine and the fact that its been written thinking about a pure native app is not a problem.

HTH
Ian