Hi! Just FYI: There also is http://www.appcelerator.com/ which is similar to PhoneGap. I played around with it a bit an created some small experimental app with it. I also looked at phonegap but never used it, Appcelerator looks to me a bit "more complete" on first glance though.
I might contribute eventually but my time is very limited at the moment so I cannot really commit myself at this point. But I will follow along of what's happening here. Other ideas for the app: - mark favourite talks and get a list of them (maybe Push notifications just before they start) - push notifications from the organizers (plus newsfeed) for important things - map of the venue plus Google map pointing to it. - for the schedule it might be good to load it via internet and cache it and update it regularly (and for effective tweeting I hope for twitter walls everywhere ;-) ) cheers, Christian 2011/2/7 Oisin Mulvihill <oisin.mulvih...@gmail.com> > Hi Nick, > > Yup, I think a chat would be a good idea. I'm curious about the > phonegap approach. I'm hoping to download and play with it this week. > > To date I have the following *con apps to look at (which includes the > one below): > > https://github.com/pygloo/pycon-android > > http://wilmer.gaa.st/main.php/giggity.html > http://sourceforge.net/projects/fosdem-android/ > > If Giovanni is busy, we can define our own API ;) > > >From my brief look at giggity I notice it feeds from an open calendar > format. This could be a starting point in our evaluation of opengap. > Get last years calendar, download, display and then make it available > in offline mode. Then we could see what it produces for iphone, > android, blackberry, etc. > > All the best, > > Oisin > > On 7 February 2011 11:09, Nick Martin <iamntmar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi Oisin, Giovanni, > > > > Phonegap looks pretty damn awesome. > > I was also pointed in the direction of this > https://github.com/pygloo/pycon-android for Android. > > > > Oisin, do you want to have a chat this week about working together on > this? We can try a test app to see if its feasible. > > > > Giovanni, do you have and further ideas on how you want the app to > function, in terms of features/stories, or perhaps > > there are some other example's of similar conference mobile apps. > > > > Also is there an API now? > > > > Thanks and apologies for not replying earlier, > > > > Nick > > > > On 4 Feb 2011, at 13:09, Oisin Mulvihill wrote: > > > >> Hi Giovanni, > >> > >> What you suggest sounds good. I realise your probably quite busy, > >> however do you have any updates on available APIs I can play with? > >> > >> I'm at the early reseach stage and still looking forward to the > >> challenge :) I'm currently getting my android dev env up and going and > >> re-learning java. Doing it in python is possible. However its not > >> realistic at this stage if I want to distribute it on the android app > >> store. > >> > >> I recently came across http://www.phonegap.com . I was wondering > >> whether anyone has used this or experience of it. Its seems to give me > >> the impression I can develop an app for android/iphone/blackberry/etc > >> using Js/HTML/CSS. If this is so Nick and I might be able to combine > >> efforts and cover more phone platforms with a single code base. > >> > >> I was aiming at producing an open source app and making it publically > >> available. I was thinking of pushing the code into mercurial > >> somewhere. I'll do this once I have decided what I'm going to code it, > >> how to test it, what features to implement for release 1, etc. I'm > >> going to reuse/extend/branch any existing projects if possible. > >> > >> All the best, > >> > >> Oisin > >> > >> > >> On 28 January 2011 00:09, Giovanni Bajo <ra...@develer.com> wrote: > >>> [[ Moving to europython-improve@, please subscribe if not already ]] > >>> > >>> On gio, 2011-01-27 at 17:14 +0100, Fabio Pliger wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> 2011/1/27 Nick Martin <iamntmar...@googlemail.com> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> I'd quite like to have a bash at making an iPhone app for > >>>> this. Fabio could you let Oisin and myself know what you have > >>>> in mind? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> The starting point should be this: http://ep2011.europython.eu/mobile > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> I'm not directely involved in the mobile apps activities. I'm asking > >>>> to one the folks that follows this activity to contact you both! > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> it's great to have an iphone and an android volunteer from day one! :) > >>> > >>> I'm going to brain-dump what we would expect from such mobile > >>> applications. > >>> > >>> First of all, I think they should be focused for being used *during* > the > >>> conference, so they should adapt as the time passes (eg: grey out past > >>> events, etc.). > >>> > >>> The main feature should probably be the schedule navigation: > >>> * Download & store all schedule data for offline usage > >>> * Display schedule day by day > >>> * Display details of each talk/training > >>> * Display speaker bios and infos > >>> * Set reminder/alert when a certain talk is about to begin > >>> > >>> Then we can have lots of additional goodies obviously less important: > >>> > >>> Twitter integration: > >>> * See realtime twitters from @europython or with hashtag #ep2011 > >>> * Easy twitting for common tweets such as "I'm at talk XXX - #ep2011" > >>> Partner program: > >>> * Some kind of integration, TBD > >>> Evening events/dinner: > >>> * Again, some integration, google maps, etc. TBD > >>> Feedback form: > >>> * Allow filling of feedback forms before leaving EuroPython, and > >>> direct online submission. > >>> > >>> How does this sound? > >>> > >>> I can give you tomorrow some sample URLs with the API we are thinking > >>> of, so that you can start working on it as soon as you want. > >>> > >>> If you setup a project somewhere (github, bitbucket, google code, etc.) > >>> we could publish it immediately on the website, together with your > >>> contact infos so that other volunteers can get in touch with you > >>> directly to help you out (I'm assuming you will be releasing it as free > >>> software, but obviously that's your call). > >>> > >>> As for the graphic assets, you are obviously free to reuse the graphic > >>> design / images / background patterns / logos available on the website > >>> (it's all under CC-license), and we can get you in contact with our > >>> graphic designer in case you need some customizations. > >>> > >>> Thanks in advance! > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Giovanni Bajo :: Develer S.r.l. > >>> ra...@develer.com :: http://www.develer.com > >>> > >>> Blog: http://giovanni.bajo.it > >>> Last post: Compile-time Function Execution in D > >>> > >>> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Europython-improve mailing list > Europython-improve@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve > -- Christian Scholz, COM.lounge GmbH, tel. +49 241 400 730 0, http://comlounge.net Blog: http://mrtopf.de/blog, Twitter: http://twitter.com/mrtopf Podcasts: Der OpenWeb-Podcast (http://openwebpodcast.de) Data Without Borders (http://datawithoutborders.net) Politisches: http://politfunk.de/
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