1. Mobile Web App Design …Getting Started Michael Doran, Systems Librarian doran@uta.edu

2. Okay, we get it! …now what? …iPhone statistics, library services, WorldCat mobile, Android, Millennials, charts and graphs, yada, yada, yada…

3. buy? build? Hmm. Is it too late to join buy4lib? …now what? www.boopsie.com/ www.blackboard.com/Mobile/

4. build web app? native app? e.g. iPhone app written in Cocoa requiring download via the App Store “Most of the folks I know in app development are moving to standardization on web versus device specific development.” Linda Woods AT&T Education Advocate Industry & Mobility Application Solutions 2009 Handheld Librarian Online ConferenceHandheld Librarian Online Conference

5. This just out… an iPhone OPAC. Download it from the App Store. What? Uhhh. I just bought a Nexus One. Loser!

6. The Tao of mobile web (app) design standards compliance web usability design minimalist design design and testing  cross-browser  cross-platform A mobile web app should do one thing and do it well. A mobile web app should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.

7. a good mobile web app typical single-interface that-does-everything library web app 1

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10. Simple is as simple does.

11. Three categories:  compatible with Safari on iPhone  optimized for Safari on iPhone  iPhone web application iPhone web apps (according to Apple*) 2 W3C standards compliant - no framesets or - unsupported technologies (cough, Flash) If it doesn’t look exactly like an iPhone app it can’t be any good! * Content on iPhone: Is It a Webpage or an Application?Content on iPhone: Is It a Webpage or an Application?

12. iUI: iPhone User Interface Framework  http://code.google.com/p/iui/ http://code.google.com/p/iui/  License: BSD iWebKit: ditto  http://iwebkit.net/ http://iwebkit.net/  License: GNU LGPL jQTouch (jQuery plugin)  http://www.jqtouch.com/ http://www.jqtouch.com/  License: MIT iPhone web application tool kits JavaScript libraries, CSS code, images… I didn’t have to start from scratch.

13. iUI iWebKit jQTouch

14. “Moore’s Law doesn’t apply to batteries…as we’re now going into mobile…the cycles count.” Douglas Crockford* Gee, I love what jQuery can do, but maybe server-side processing is the way to go. * Quoted in “Coders at Work” by Peter Seibel, pg. 100

15. [11:45] jquery++ [11:45] @fight bacon jquery [11:45] jquery: 2090000, bacon: 106 [11:45] whatever

16. Handheld emulators/simulators Generally come with handheld OS SDKs  webOS (Palm) webOS http://developer.palm.com/  iPhone (Apple) iPhone http://developer.apple.com/iphone/  Android (Google & Open Handset Alliance) Android http://developer.android.com/ Web-based simulators (be leery)  Opera Mini Simulator – good Opera Mini Simulator http://www.opera.com/mini/demo/  TestiPhone.com – absolutely worthless Operating System Software Development Kit

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24. Handheld emulators/simulators Palm iPhone Android Opera Mini

25. Browser compatibility – don’t skip this Internet Explorer Firefox Chrome

26. XHTML/HTML/CSS validation XHTML/HTML CSS Accessibility Get right with these before you move on to platform compatibility.

27. Mobile design – platform compatibility viewport

28. Mobile design – platform compatibility Larger buttons for finger tapping

29. Mobile design – platform compatibility 2

30. Test it on the real thing (handset), too! Borrow from colleagues Or, as a last resort… Just need to… test… my app…. one… more time

31. Don’t forget the documentation! Mobile/handheld developer sites have useful information on how to “design for small” Read it Seriously. Read it. A viewport? Who knew? It’s a small world after all.

32. Example docs and websites iPhone  Principles and Guidelines for Creating Great iPhone Content Principles and Guidelines for Creating Great iPhone Content  iPhone Human Interface Guidelines for Web Applications iPhone Human Interface Guidelines for Web Applications  Google Groups: iPhoneWebDev Google Groups: iPhoneWebDev Others  Opera Mini Developer resources Opera Mini Developer resources  many, many, more…  still more… Reading? I just want to code!

33. “Deliver relevance -- expectations are high and you can only dazzle once.” Cindy Cunningham, OCLC LITA 2009 National Forum Patrons can be persnickety. Maybe I should practice on the Library staff, first.

34. Hmmm, a staff app… …easier to do a needs assessment …easier to get UI feedback …library has WiFi, so we can use mobile devices without a data plan What would help staff working in the stacks?

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37. UTA hereby grants USER permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee […] Consider releasing your mobile app as free open source. It’s better than free beer!

38. If that imbecile up there can do it… How hard could it be? Getting something to beta would only take me a week.

39. That’s it! Any questions? @dchud: Thanks for giving up your presentation slot.