[Scale-planning] Mobile App

Wed Feb 6 07:35:18 UTC 2019

Hi Derek, Hows the app coming along? Need any help from us?

On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 1:50 PM Derek Nowicki <derek at knowikiapps.com> wrote:
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> As far as I know, there isn't a legal way to bypass the app store for apple. android will allow you to do it, but with ios you'd need to jailbreak your phone or "sideload" the app from another device. For Android the users would have to set their devices to allow unauthorized apps, which I don't think anyone would be willing to do, and we would have to set up some backend download endpoint for he apk.
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> It looks like we could possibly contact apple directly (and probably google too) to expedite a review. We may be able to make a case that we want to push immediate updates for the conference. But really, I think if we got some people testing it over the next couple months we should be fine.
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> https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/
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> Currently, the URLs are baked into the app, but they don't have to stay that way. There's a bunch of ways we could probably do it since they are just strings in the source code. You're welcome to work on it. If you send me your github handle, I can add you as a dev on the project.
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> Derek Nowicki
> Knowiki Apps
> 818-262-9565
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> On 1/26/19 10:24 AM, Hriday Balachandran wrote:
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> Hi Derek,
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> Do the urls have to be baked into the IPA? Also, can we push the ipa outside of the store, so we can avoid Apple store?
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 11:22 AM Ilan Rabinovitch <ilan at socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
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>> Hi Derek,
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>> I added an announcement about KubeFlow day.
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>> Ilan
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>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 1:11 PM Derek Nowicki <derek at knowikiapps.com> wrote:
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>>> Ilan,
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>>> I changed all of the urls and they look like they are working just fine! I'm also in the process of editing the image resources to reflect the new 17x as well.
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>>> Can you add some announcements to the backend for 17x? We'll need some sample announcements that don't contain the words "sample", "demo", "test" or anything like that (apple will reject the app if we use those kinds of words). Or if you want to give me access to the backend I can do it, whatever you feel comfortable with. I would recommend that you just copy the text from some tweets or facebook posts. It would be real announcements that apple probably wouldn't have a problem with.
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>>> Once we have some announcements in there and I've edited the image resources, I should be able to deploy to the app stores and have the 17x ready to install/update in couple days time. I will also update the app store graphics and screen shots with the 17x moniker.
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>>> In my experience, it can take around 48 hours for updates to be approved by the app stores, so we want to make sure that we get as much testing done as soon as we can so that we have time to fix bugs and make updates. Once the conference starts, we probably won't be able to get app updates to the users before the end.
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>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Derek Nowicki
>>> Knowiki Apps
>>> 818-262-9565
>>>
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>>> On 1/25/19 12:36 AM, Ilan Rabinovitch wrote:
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>>> Thanks Derek. .What urls did you use for 16x? Can we just change the
>>> path to 17x?
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>>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 2:07 PM Derek Nowicki <derek at knowikiapps.com> wrote:
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>>> All,
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>>> Last year we started working on a mobile app to replace guidebook. We got most of the way there, but didn't quite make it in time to be used for the conference. We'd love to see this app used this year so we're reaching out for your help to get it up and running. We're looking for people to test the app, develop features, find and report bugs, and work on backend features.
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>>> the app can be installed on both Android, iOS, and all desktop OS's:
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>>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.knowikiapps.SCaLE
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>>> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scale-conference/id1340573731
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>>> https://github.com/KnowikiApps/scale-conf-app
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>>> Currently the app is configured for 16x, but we just need the backend API endpoints for 17x and that will be fixed. So if you're the site admin send us the endpoint URLs please!
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>>> If you're interested in contributing to the project as a tester, developer, or designer let us know.
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>>> Best,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Derek Nowicki
>>> Knowiki Apps
>>> 818-262-9565
>>>
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