[Building Sakai] FW: FW: Sakai iPhone/Android app?

[Maurer, Christopher Wayne]

Nate,
Forwarding your message on to the Sakai Dev list...

Chris
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From: Johnson, Nathaniel Alan
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 2:29 PM
To: Watkins, Karen
Cc: Maurer, Christopher Wayne; May, Megan Marie; McGough, Brian Joseph
Subject: Re: FW: [Building Sakai] Sakai iPhone/Android app?

Hi Karen

I've been talking to many of the people on this list over the past
semester, Steve in particular. I'm not sure what list to post this to,
or if I have access, but if someone could forward it on, that would be
great.

At IU we have a student project that is focused on 6 tools
(announcements, assignments, gradebook, roster, forums, and resources)
and a dashboard of aggregated data. We are creating entity providers for
each of the tools and will use JSON RESTful web services to
GET/POST/PUT/DELETE data. The AuthN will be done via "device pairing"
and the AuthZ will be done with OAuth. This should be ready for Fall
semester.

Here is a working mockup of the iPhone app, which is click-able through
out the classes and tools:
http://mypage.iu.edu/~thrclark/ipapp/oncourse/snap-today.html

We plan on supporting iPhone, Android, and a web version. We looked at
phonegap about 2 years ago and at the time it wasn't quite what we were
looking for. Recently we have started looking at it again along with
other similar/complimentary tools. It is possible that we move to
something like phonegap but probably not for the first version of mobile
sakai.

I am happy to provide more details if people would like to hear them.

Best,
Nate
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Nathaniel A. Johnson
Principal Systems Analyst
Enterprise Service Presentation & Delivery
Division of Enterprise Software
Indiana University