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Alaska Legislature
iPhone &
Android Apps
National Association of Legislative Information Technology Madison WI. October 2012
curtis.clothier@legis.state.ak.us shay.wilson@legis.state.ak.us
Mobile Device News & Rumors
• Half of U.S. adults now have a mobile connection through a smartphone or tablet, up sizably from a year ago (Pew Research Center 10/1/12).
• Apple to unveil 'iPad Mini' Oct. 17, start sales Nov. 2(?)
• Microsoft has revealed the Windows 8 Phone release date is November 2012 (Nokia and HTC).
• Microsoft building their own Windows Phone?
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Alaska Legislature Mobile Devices* (Approximately 500 users)
iPhones 217 Devices
iPads 162 Devices
Blackberry 29 Devices
Android Phones and Tablets 76 Devices
Windows Phones 5 Devices
As of 9/30/2012
iPhone/iPad App Development
• Early 2011, we saw what the New York Senate had done.
• One of our programmers ‘volunteered’ for the project.
• We purchased a Mac for development ($1,500).
• We registered as Apple Developers ($99/year). – (it took about a week to complete the process).
• We downloaded Appcelerator’s Titanium product (free).
• We purchased a Support Contract to assist with development issues.
• Updates take between 4 – 10 days to be published with the App Store.
iPhone/iPad Timeline
• IOS development started in March 2011 (on a part-time basis, during legislative session).
• We began testing in July 2011
• App released in August 2011 • We’ve had 3 major updates.
• Over 2,000 downloads, including from China, Indonesia, Tunisia, India, Thailand, Australia, Taiwan, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Macedonia, UK, South Africa, Portugal, Brazil, and ‘others’.*
• *9/30/12
Development Software
• Alaska used Appcelerator’s Titanium Platform
– Works for Apple, Android, Safari, Linux, Windows platforms
• http://www.appcelerator.com/showcase/
• Free!
• iPhone SDK 10.6
• JavaScript, HTML, CSS
What our iOS App does
Home Screen - Displays House and Senate Schedules and Calendars.
Meetings Screen – Shows 10 days of scheduled meetings and locations.
Streams Screen – Shows live web streams of committee meetings.
Moving Bills Screen – Links to Bills that have had activity in the past 10 days.
Other Screen –Legislator Contact Information, Committee Member info, Meeting minutes and audio, documents, and ‘other’ material.
Todays Documents – Shows documents submitted for todays meetings. (IOS only)
Android Development ‘Issues’
• Android Marketplace (Play Store) was fairly easy to use (a little easier than iTunes).
• Used 80% of code base from our iPhone app. • Document handling (opening) is different
between IOS and Android. (Tab for ‘Today’s Documents’ still missing).
• Apple Emulator is robust, the Android Emulator not so much.
• Resolution across hardware and operating systems was an issue…..
A few of our User’s Android Devices* (Running Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice cream Sandwich, & Jellybean)
* Android Marketplace report 9/28/12 ** Most popular Android device using our App
Acer Picasso Asus Nexus 7 (grouper) HTC Desire (bravoc) HTC Desire HD (ace) HTC EVO Shift 4G (speedy) HTC Hero (heroc) HTC Lexikon HTC Incredible 2 (vivow) HTC One X (evita) HTC Sensation 4G (pyramid) HTC Wildfire CDMA (bee) Lenovo Thinkpad (Indigo) LG Optimus 2 AS680 LG Optimus 2 AS855 LG Optimus 2X LG c729
Motorola Driod 4 (Maserati) Motorola Droid Bionic (cdma_targa) Motorola Droid RAZR (cdma_spyder) Motorola Droid X (cdma_shadow) Motorola Droid X2 (daytona) Motorola Edison Motorola Photon 4G (sunfire) Motorola XOOM (wingray) Primoc (A jailbroken Android) Samsung Galaxy Nexus (maguro) Samsung Galaxy Nexus (toro) Samsung Galaxy Player Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000) Samsung Galaxy S (SCH-I500) Samsung Galaxy S (SGH-I897) Samsung Galaxy S2(GT-I9100)** Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket Samsung Galaxy S3 (SGH-I727) Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Samsung Infuse 4G Samsung SCH-R760 Samsung SGH-I777 Sony Tablet S (nbx03) Toshiba AT100 (tostab03) ZTE V9
Our To-Do/Status List (updated from 2011)
• Develop version for iPad.
• Facebook – Social Networking links on Legislators pages.
• Train another programmer for Android App.
• Bi-Monthly updates to App over the next year.
• We’re investigating IOS Management platforms for iPhone and iPad deployment and support.
• Sensitive to the fact that we continue to make our ‘regular’ website ‘mobile friendly’ (CSS).
Summary • The iPhone project was started with ‘Alaska Residents’
as customers, and to also address Legislators desire for better access via Apple products.
• After the release of the App, Legislative Staff input led us in new directions including: – iPad development,
– Android development,
– Paperless initiative (Today’s Documents),
– Customized searches (in ‘Other’, tab)
– and better screen interfaces (sliding screens).
• Take a look at the ‘Open States’ IOS app for your legislative body.
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