Sakai OAE native mobile app

First of all, I would like to introduce myself, I am Mayte Giménez a student of Computer Science and Fine Arts from Spain. I am doing my specialization in languages and artificial intelligence. I have been working with Sakai for the last 3 years as scholar with David Roldán (recently named fellow, big kudos for him!), and Sakai gave me this big opportunity to develop a mobile application for Sakai OAE.

Before I will start talking about the project, I would like to say how impress I am about the big work the community have done with this branch of Sakai. The architecture is really strong and all technologies used are awesome.

So, let's talk about the GSoC project!
During this summer, I will develop, with the big help of Carl Hall, a mobile application for Sakai OAE. After research our different options, we are going to develop a native application for the main mobile platforms: Android and iOS. So I will be switching from one environment to the other every week.
Since Sakai OAE services returns JSON we can take advantage from native application, specially with the Android background services. (I still have to investigate with iOS, any help?)

I have created some mock ups about how the application should look like. These are my two proposals:


Mockup 1:

• Login window
• If login is correct we arrive to my dashboard, where we can select where to go. If the user selects "My membership" he will get a list of places where he can access and when he selects one site he will see the information about this site.
• If the user selects "My profile" he will see his profile and he could edit it.












Mockup 2:


• Login window
• If login is correct we arrive to my dashboard, where the user will see some tabs with all the basics of sakai oae. First tab will be the profile, and he will be able to edit his profile. If the user selects "My membership" tab he will get a list of places where he can access and when he selects one site he will see the information about this site.
• If the user is at "My profile", and he press a button (in Android: menu button, in iOs I should investigate which one will be better) he will see all the options of his profile and he could change the view.









I would love to have some feed back about these. So please comment! :)

Quite big for a short introduction, isn’t it? Well I won’t bore you much more.

I have began with the configuration screen on the android environment, so I will post soon about it.




Thanks for reading. Please, comment. And we see us soon.