Hi all I'm in the process of putting together an iPhone app that uses the TWFY and Public Whip APIs to create a directory of MP data suitable for quick lookups in between shouting at the screen during Question Time. This is very much a case of scratching some personal itches - one is that Googling for that kind of info mid-rant gets a bit distracting; the other is that it's a nicely constrained application with which to level up my Objective-C foo a bit.
The source data is constrained by what is served by the TWFY and Public Whip APIs, and how much screen scraping of the new BBC Politics site I can bear to do without slowing things to a crawl The interface is also somewhat limiting, although I've been surprised by how much you can cram onto a 160x320 palette. Where some input from the list would be useful is around what sort of data would be useful to present in a palm-top app; and how that could be presented. My l33t dev skills aren't necessarily up to building particularly flashy interfaces, but after spending hours deep in the bowels of XML parsers it's easy to lose the perspective of what people would find useful in an app like this. Also, if anyone's interested in being a guinea pig, I'll be looking for willing beta testers once things are stable enough to deploy onto somebody else's device. Any ideas and suggestions will be gratefully received! Thanks, Tim Tim Duckett ----------------------------------------------------- M - 07525 786 492 Skype - timduckett Blog - http://www.adoptioncurve.net Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/timd ----------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
