[Building Sakai] Sakai iPhone/Android app?

[Matthew Jones]

There has been a lot of work in 2.7 and 2.8 on improving the mobile
experience as you mentioned in the portal. This is an easy benefit for
everyone. Overall this experience feels pretty good. Many mobile browsers
currently disable file uploading and the wysiwyg editor has to be disabled,
but there's no good ways around this for anyone until the browsers and
devices get better.

As far as an an actual native app is concerned, Steve Swinsburg proposed a
Google Summer of Code idea for 2011. [2] This would need both the app
written as well (likely) as a number of new entitybroker endpoints. Another
issue with a native app would be authentication, as you don't want your
users entering passwords on their applications. This may be different school
to school.

Some schools like Oxford have also done some work in this space. [3] Much of
it is slower because there currently aren't way to get at all of tools api's
externally. And writing those required interfaces (in entitybroker) isn't
always as exciting or easy as writing the app is. ;)

[1] https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK/component/11220#
[2]
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/MGT/Google+Summer+of+Code+2011+ideas+list#GoogleSummerofCode2011ideaslist-
[3] http://m.ox.ac.uk/desktop/#weblearn

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Jacob Reinelt <jjreinel at svsu.edu> wrote:

> Is their any work going on regarding an iPhone or Android application that
> would integrate with Sakai?
>
> I know sakai has a mobile portal that has seen enhancements for 2.7.x, but
> I'm just curious regarding apps as I haven't seen anything since an iPad app
> demonstration that I believe IU had at the last conference.
>
> Jacob Reinelt
>
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