[Building Sakai] Sakai iPhone/Android app?

[Sean DeMonner]

> why wouldn't you want user's entering passwords int the app?


At Michigan our security folks are very concerned about credentials being gathered on the device by individual apps (we have lots of "non-official" app development going on by students and affiliated groups that we want to encourage, but we don't want them handling credentials). 

Instead, our app mobile team is building an SSO app that other mobile apps will use for authentication. That way you have one centrally blessed app capturing credentials but potentially lots of innovative apps at the edges.

SMD.


On Mar 24, 2011, at 8:31 PM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:

> Just a thought: why wouldn't you want user's entering passwords int the app? It needs to be done for other apps that connect to an account somewhere, like Twitter etc.
> 
> One way around this would be to use API keys/OAuth so a user has an API key they can set into the app, instead of their username/password. They can then manage that in their  'Account' page, ie reset my API key.
> 
> Oxford has done some work on OAuth, I would love to see how it works..
> 
> cheers,
> Steve
> 
> 
> On 25/03/2011, at 6:48 AM, Matthew Jones wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
>> Open Source Programmer/Analyst
>> Saginaw Valley State University
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>> (989) 964-2151
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