Create a Loomio App for Android
Since most people don't walk around with a PC or a laptop all the time, I think it would be great to have a Loomio app in each phone for easy consulting and fast decisionmaking.... What do you think of this idea?
Robert Guthrie Tue 5 May 2015 10:27PM
@denjello - yes Manifold.js looks great eh?
Denjello Tue 5 May 2015 10:39PM
yeah - almost too great.
Danyl Strype Tue 19 May 2015 8:52PM
I endorse the FirefoxOS approach to mobile: Apps are good for things that can be used offline (eg calendar), but if a service is net-dependent, like Loomio, keep it in the browser
Check out what Drupal8 is doing with support for the REST approach. My understand is that with Drupal8 people will need only one version of their website, and the REST functionality will automatically detect what kind of device the web server is serving to, and serve up a version appropriate to that form factor. This saves a lot of work building and maintaining separate versions for different form factors.
Kelly Bell Tue 29 Sep 2015 8:45PM
PLEASE PLEASE build an iOS app?!?!?!!!!
If you build on Drupal as the main data repo and just use the apps for UX it's fast, scalable snd your ysers will love you. My Dev co, Gotham City Drupal, does this all the time and it's wonderful.
But speaking strictly as a user, I'm BEGGING: PLEASE build a dedicated mobile app FOR IOS?
Matthew Bartlett Wed 30 Sep 2015 2:57AM
Hey Kelly — can you tell me a bit about what you'd get from an IOS app that you can't get from using Loomio in your mobile's web browser?
Kelly Bell Wed 30 Sep 2015 3:15AM
Not having to click every link 2-3 times for them to work (one to "set focus", again to "select"), for one thing! :)
It gets annoying pretty dang fast, when you have to click a lot.
Many UX advantages, mostly in flexibility and independence from the underlying CMS (or whatever you've built the web site on): UX is decoupled from the site code through an API and you have much better choices, and more standardized ones, so it's more predictable and a lot easier to use. Buttons bigger, easier to see, fonts under control of iOS settings not css, defaults and menus are more consistent. Etc. hopefully you get the idea.
Plus the app will work much faster (better performance) and have a more fluid and responsive experience overall.
I hope that's enough to convince you. Your data is all still housed in one db so there's no db merging to worry about. There's everything to gain and nothing whatsoever to lose.
Kelly Bell
Founder and CTO
Gotham City Drupal
917.446.1555
Matthew Bartlett Wed 30 Sep 2015 7:31PM
Thanks! That helps heaps
Kelly Bell Thu 1 Oct 2015 5:44PM
Thank you for listening.
Greg Cassel Thu 1 Oct 2015 8:55PM
Relevant perhaps @kellybell and @matthewbartlett : http://readwrite.com/2015/02/27/native-vs-web-apps-ceasefire
Intriguing reference there to a VisionMobile report:
"Facebook’s newly announced React Native is a glimpse at a possible future where full native app performance can be achieved whilst the UI is declared much more like a Web app and the code is mostly written in JavaScript."
Balasankar C · Tue 5 May 2015 1:41AM
I am happy with the way loomio website's mobile version works (in my Moto G). But won't hurt to have an android app (If we can spare manpower :) )