[I-mobile-u] Thoughts on developing native mobile apps

[Farhad Anklesaria]

We have built a series of native iPhone apps (although they have not been
released through the App Store) partly as an exercise in building them and
partly because they would be useful in their own right.

Currently we have
- SystemStatus (which is our 3Down equivalent; also an Android version)
- People Directory (look up people in campus directory)
- MyCourses (show me what classes I have, where, with link to campus map,
when, who's teaching it (with link to faculty phone, email, etc).

They are individual apps, although I suppose we could thread them into a
"springboard-like" single app.

We're evaluating writing Campus Events, Campus Maps and Emergency Info
native apps similar to those in MIT Mobile Web.

We would be happy to collaborate with iMobileU Initiative members to further
develop these and other native apps.

F.
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Farhad Xerxes Anklesaria
Office of Information Technology/Academic Computing
University of Minnesota
fxa at umn.edu