Web & Mobile Application Development

Sencha Mobile Development

web maps — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:07:50 +0000

Just attending an online presentation on the Sencha Javascript framework. It was titled Javascript development for Flex developers. That and the fact that it was presented by Ted Patrick; until recently an Adobe evangelist, caught my attention. It was an interesting presentation. The burning question for me, as a mobile developer was ‘why [read full article]

Facility Management Mobile Apps Review

web maps — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:34:08 +0000

We’ve written articles on facility management and mobile apps. More than that we in the process of writing an app for a facility management company. We liked the following article, discussing available facility management mobile apps:

Facility Management Mobile Applications

Ok, we are mentioned in the article; just made us like it that little bit [read full article]

Mobile GIS Apps – Future of GPS

web maps — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:19:26 +0000

Deep in the bowels of Edinburgh University, scientists are using a much talked-about – and talked-up – cutting-edge communication technology to answer the eternal question: “Daddy, are we nearly there?”

Professor Gordon Povey and Wired magazine pin-up Professor Harald Haas believe that visible light communication – or li-fi – can challenge the dominance of [read full article]

Mobile GIS Apps & Screen Size

web maps — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:15:26 +0000

Found this comment on Tuaw.com discussing screen size; Why Bigger is Not Always Better:

‘One of the things Android phone owners love to brag about — particularly those who have the new Samsung Galaxy S II with its 4.27-inch diagonal screen — is that the larger screens are much easier to read and watch [read full article]

Mobile Flex Bitmaps & Emailing from Mobile App

web maps — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:05:12 +0000

We’ve been working on a few technical challenges lately with our mobile app development. Mobile Flex is our language of choice. Why? One (installed) code base which runs across multiple platforms. We are mobile GIS app developers, so focused on maps and geospatial work. Two technical challenges have reared their heads. The first [read full article]

Mobile GIS Apps – Feature Attributes View & Edit

web maps — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:35:35 +0000

“If I could simply see my layers in the field on my mobile device, view feature attributes and edit/update these attributes my job would be so much easier” – Anonymous Client

I’m wondering how many others empathize with one of our clients. Mobile devices and mobile GIS apps can now do this and much [read full article]

Mobile GIS – Sharing Map Annotation

web maps — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:17:28 +0000

We wrote a blog entry a while back called ‘Hot Topics in Mobile GIS’. This was a summary of some of the many client conversations we had in 2011, talking about mobile GIS. Moving away from the use of pen and paper while working in the field, was often mentioned. It remains common [read full article]

Flexible Mobile GIS Frameworks

web maps — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:53:15 +0000

We have spoken many times on this blog about our release of GeoMobile for ArcGIS. The link below will take you to a more detailed discussion:

http://www.webmapsolutions.com/free-mobile-arcgis-viewer-upgraded

Our logic for the release was:

To demonstrate a custom ArcGIS mobile application Build a cross platform mobile GIS app or one code base which runs on multiple platforms; iOS, [read full article]

Hot Topics in Mobile GIS

web maps — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:39:41 +0000

We recently looked back over client and potential client feedback in 2011. There were definitely some re-occurring themes. Here we summarise some of these conversations:

1) Mining

Display in a mobile map app dynamic sensor data (click on map point and its shows current data)

2) Cultural Resource Management

“Even though GPS technology has been readily adopted [read full article]

State of Adobe Mobile Flex in Early 2012

web maps — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:01:35 +0000

I thought the following discussion was interesting. The question posed was answered by Jesse warden; sometime tough to understand but still a Flash/Flex guru:

Question:

Hey Adobe Devs, what’s the state of developing mobile (iOS) applications with AIR (specifically Flex) these days. I’ve been out of the loop a bit with keeping up on the [read full article]