[Scale-planning] Mobile App

der.hans Verteiler+scale-planning at LuftHans.com
Thu Feb 7 15:30:17 UTC 2019 

Am 07. Feb, 2019 schwätzte Derek Nowicki so:

moin moin Derek,

Looking forward to having an app for SCaLE17x. Is there a possibility of
getting it into F-Droid?

Also, why does it need precise location, microphone and camera access?

ciao,

der.hans

> Ilan,
>
> Sorry about the delayed reply, I've been dealing with some issues with one of 
> my clients and it has been an absolute drain on my energy.
>
> Things are going well with the app though. I'm just about done updating the 
> urls and image resources for the 17x moniker, and I'll be uploading the 
> updated app to the stores soon.
>
> What would be really awesome is if you could install the app on your phone 
> and test it out before I upload the updates to the stores. Obviously, the 
> data will be from 16x but we haven't changed any of the features so you 
> should be able to use it just the same. Any feedback you give can be 
> integrated into the update I'll send.
>
> I think the main thing I need to know is what work we need to do for it to be 
> acceptable for the conference. If there are any features that you want to 
> add, we definitely have time to work on them. If there are any bugs you find, 
> we have time to fix them. I'd love to get an email from you soon that says 
> the app is good enough to use this year.
>
> Whatever we need to do to get this year to be the first year SCaLE has it's 
> own app, I'm down to get it done. I just need your feedback.
>
> /Derek Nowicki
> Knowiki Apps
> 818-262-9565/
>
>
> On 2/5/19 11:35 PM, Ilan Rabinovitch wrote:
>> 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:
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Derek Nowicki
>>> Knowiki Apps
>>> 818-262-9565
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 1/26/19 10:24 AM, Hriday Balachandran wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Derek,
>>> 
>>> 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:
>>>> Hi Derek,
>>>> 
>>>> I added an announcement about KubeFlow day.
>>>> 
>>>> Ilan
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 1:11 PM Derek Nowicki <derek at knowikiapps.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Ilan,
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Derek Nowicki
>>>>> Knowiki Apps
>>>>> 818-262-9565
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 1/25/19 12:36 AM, Ilan Rabinovitch wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks Derek. .What urls did you use for 16x? Can we just change the
>>>>> path to 17x?
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 2:07 PM Derek Nowicki <derek at knowikiapps.com> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> All,
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> the app can be installed on both Android, iOS, and all desktop OS's:
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.knowikiapps.SCaLE
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scale-conference/id1340573731
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://github.com/KnowikiApps/scale-conf-app
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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!
>>>>> 
>>>>> If you're interested in contributing to the project as a tester, 
>>>>> developer, or designer let us know.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Derek Nowicki
>>>>> Knowiki Apps
>>>>> 818-262-9565
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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