In the next session, we will take this bare-bones, yet functional, social mobile app as a starting point and discuss ways to make it better. Since this is literally an app that was built in a day, there are obviously lots of low-hanging fruit that we can pick on. The agenda hasn’t been finalized, and the date isn’t set in stone, but it will be within the next two weeks, and some of the potential agenda items may include:
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Improving look and feel using styles, borders, and icons.
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Adding Push support so users will be notified when news is posted, or when they receive friend requests.
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Improving performance using various techniques including image compression, pre-sizing of images, network threads, and sprites.
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Introducing Local storage for offline support.
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Adding chat support
If there are particular issues you would like to cover in the next webinar, please post them in the comments below, and I’ll see if I can incorporate them.
The Webinar Software
For this webinar, I used GotoWebinar because I was familiar with GotoMeeting. Unfortunately there were some issues that make it less than a perfect fit for our needs. I’ve been reviewing Google Hangouts, and may try that out for the next one. If you have suggestions, I’m also interested in hearing what solutions you have used.
Happy coding, and hope to see you all in the next session!