mobile strategy brigham young university–idaho may 15, 2013 © 2013, brigham young...

Mobile Strategy Brigham Young University–Idaho

May 15, 2013

© 2013, Brigham Young University–Idaho. All rights reserved.

Mobile Strategy SummaryEnterprise Architecture document……


Mobile

We will design web applications to be mobile friendly and will provide native mobile applications for phones and tablets for a subset of key services.

Responsive design will be used to ensure that student-facing web applications size to fit on different mobile devices. Native mobile applications will be written for key services where the user experience is paramount or key functionality is not available in a web application.

Mobile applications will access enterprise data through secured REST web services. These services will be secured with an API key that can be manually revoked to disable a

particular application. Official BYU–Idaho native applications will undergo a code review before being published in

order to ensure that credentials are being handled correctly and that other best practices are followed.

Strategy


• Rest Services• Prototypes• Training• Students• Responsive Design – Master Page• Platform• Branding• Class Help?• App Suggestions

Rest Services


• We have Rest Services for Bulletin Board and Web Cams• We have a created Standards to Secure Rest Services

• API Key• Secured Cookie

• Login to get Cookie• Pass Cookie to secured services

• Services work also with Javascript

Prototypes


• Bulletin Board• Responsive Web Application that uses Rest Service API• Developer is writing Windows Phone App

• Web Cams• IOS and Android Prototype

Training - Employees


• IOS• April - Darick Carpenter – Nerd Ranch• Spencer Wadsworth has been learning IOS on his own.

• Android• June – Ryan Andreasen – Nerd Ranch

Students


• Goal - Always have 1 – 2 students helping with each of the Mobile Platforms. We are always looking for qualified students

• IOSCraig Trudo, Sergii Mycroncuk

• Android SangSeok Doe

Responsive Design


If a website needs to be functional on all devices then we will use Responsive Design.

Working jointly with University Communications we have created a Master page Template that utilizes Responsive Design. This template has been used in a number of Web Sites. Developers are also making sites “touch” enabled.

• Bulletin Boardhttps://web.byui.edu/bulletinboard#

Platform


With our limited resources we are seriously investigating using BYU’s mobile platform. They have a platform for Android and IOS.

We plan to do limited development on Windows Phone.

We have the source for both the IOS and Android versions. We are more ahead on the IOS version than we are on Android.

Branding


Class Help


We have tried working with CIT (Lee Barney) to involve a class. This failed for the following reasons:1) API documentation was not good.2) We didn’t have good examples.3) Lack of involvement. A developer should probably attend

the class to answer questions.

As we finalize the platform we would welcome class participation in writing apps.

App Suggestions


Received list from Student Voice

Timeline


June – Complete Assessment of BYU Mobile Platform and finalize Strategy with Road Map of Applications

July – Develop Project Charter and present to PEG, Show Mobile Solution Pilot with one or more apps.

Discussion


mobile strategy brigham young university–idaho may 15, 2013 © 2013, brigham young...

Documents

javascript slide

android prototype slide

services services

student voice slide

byus mobile platform

ios version

windows phone app web

android versions