Mobiledevelopement

at The AppLab !

Réunion des “Geeks anonymes”, 13 novembre 2013 Valentin THIRION

2nd Grade of Master in Computer Science, ULg

Keynote Plan• The AppLab presentation

• The beginning : UlgOloc and rocket launch

• Development

• #iOSDev

• #AndroidDev

• Tools

• App Content (Backoffice, API, …)

• To infinity and beyond

The AppLab• Unstructured structure

• 3 ULg students

• 2 Apple fanboys

• 1 Open Source fanboy

• 3 friends

• 3 inspired brains

• 3 geeks @ Home with keyboards and mice

Organisation• One manager and one designer per

project

• Facebook, Azendoo (google it, it’s damn great!) and Google Hangouts support

• AFK meetings

• ULgOloc HeadQuarters

• Time flexibility

• Objectives orientation

• Beta tests and lots of returns

ULgOloc …• One idea

• One year of reflexion

• 3 months of hard work

• 2 Apps, one back office for admins

• 2 weeks of beta test

• Students, professors, ulg employees, student associations

• Some articles before availability

• WEBTV Video

… and rocket launch• October 2012: JDMP

• +/- 1000 downloads

• November 2012: ULgOloc

• +/- 4000 downloads

• May 2013: Francos 2.0

• +/- 6000 downloads

• November 2013: LetsGO Chaudfontaine

• ???

• A lot of “no’s” … (lack of time)

#iOSDev• Xcode

• Apple SDK

• iOS 4.3 => iOS 7.0.3

• iPhone simulator

• Source control (Git) & DropBox

• Objective-C, C

• Learning: Peul Hegarty’s Stanford course, Apple documentation, books, …

• iPhone 3GS, 4, 4S, 5, 5S, iPad 3, Mini

• Problems:

• Differences between versions

• Apple limits

#AndroidDev• Eclipse for Java

• Google Android SDK

• 2.3 => 4.3

• No simulator (too slow)

• Source control (Git on bitbucket), since GA may 2013 & DropBox

• JAVA & XML

• Learning: Google I/O, online doc

• Phones: Samsung, Sony; Tablets: Nexus, Arnova

• Problems

• Differences between version, devices capabilities and manufacturer over-layer

• Screen sizes

App content• Backoffice in the cloud

• PHP mainly

• MySQL

• OVH and Gandi

• API in XML (mostly “on demand”)

• Data coherence from database to app-based storage

• Recently: want to represent data online as it appears on apps (LetsGO)

• Data managed by admins, super users and users.

• Real community platform

To infinity …• New clients (LetsGO, journalists,

teachers, events managers, …)

• New demands (Liege Airport, Schools in Liège, Malmedy, …)

• New needs

• New ideas

• Want to create a real company

• Need for proofs

• Stay in “low-cost” class

GA(of course)

… and beyond!

• Increase # of users

• Increase coverage

• Increase professionalism

• Increase quality

• Use other technologies than GPS

• Do better != Do more

• Increase UE and designAnd more!

MyCampus 2.0

“One more thing.”

LetsGO launch will lift off soon(Chaudfontaine)

!

Request your beta account Send a mail to dev@theapplab.be

and go to www.letsgo-be.com

Thanks for your attention

www.theapplab.be

PS: Looking for a real designer!