2011. Mobile Web 1.0. Mobile SMS. (May, 2008). Mobile Web 2.0 ...
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. ... Na6ve apps for iPhone and BlackBerry, Android coming soon ... Blackboard
and Sprint.
MIT Mobile Pla,orm Roadmap
Challenges • Need criteria to priori:ze requests – Many project requests – Not enough people or money to pursue everything
• Limited to what service owners make available – Mobile Stellar improvements wai:ng for Stellar NG
• One MIT employee on team full-‐:me – Mobile developers are scarce and expensive
Mobile Pla,orm Services • MIT Mobile Web
– m.mit.edu – Hosts mobile “modules” for MIT services – Accessible to all mobile browsers
• Na:ve apps
– iPhone and Android apps – Na:ve-‐only features – Content comes from m.mit.edu
• Device Capability Detec:on Service (DCD)
– Mobile-‐service-‐prod.mit.edu – Classifies mobile browsers by capability – Simplifies mobile development for all of MIT
• Mobile consultants for MIT
– SoTware design and development
A Brief History of MIT Mobile Open Source Release (May, 2009) Work began (January, 2008)
2008
2009
Mobile Web 1.0 Mobile SMS (May, 2008)
Mobile SMS Discontinued (August, 2010)
Mobile Web 2.0 (September, 2009)
iPhone Native 1.0 (February, 2010)
2010
Device Capability Detection Service (May, 2009)
iPhone Native 2.0 (June, 2010)
iPhone Native 3.0, Android Native 2.0 (January, 2011)
2011
Android Native 1.0 (November, 2010)
Future-‐proof device support • Mobile browsers are grouped into 3 “buckets” – Featurephone, Smartphone, and “Touch” (WebKit)
• m.mit.edu displays best look for each bucket • Grouped via Device Capability Detec:on Service – mobile-‐service-‐prod.mit.edu – Groups browsers according to capability – Free web service for all MIT applica:ons – How Touchstone chooses its mobile interface
Modules on m.mit.edu Sorted by 2010 popularity — does not include na:ve app traffic. Module
Service Owner
Technology
% of 2010 (780K hits)
ShuZleTrack
Facili:es
NextBus XML
29%
Campus Map
Facili:es
ArcGIS
22%
Stellar
IS&T
XML
9%
Events Calendar
IS&T
SOAP
5%
People Directory
IS&T
LDAP
4%
News Office
News Office
XML
3%
Libraries
Libraries
Drupal
1%
Emergency Info
Facili:es
RSS
< 1%
3DOWN
IS&T
RSS
< 1%
TechCASH
Card Services
Custom
< 1%
MIT150
Ins:tute Affairs
Drupal
New in 2011
Campus Tour
Ins:tute Affairs
Custom
New in 2011
Choosing modules for m.mit.edu At first, there was only m.mit.edu, and the Mobile team had to seek out modules to add. Our criteria were simple: 1. What is most useful to students? 2. Does it make sense in a mobile context? 3. Is its data available to us? 4. If it requires authen:ca:on, it should use Touchstone (no cer:ficate support on most phones).
Choosing new projects Now, many groups are asking for help becoming “mobile”. 1. What do they mean by “mobile”? a. Add mobile interface to their server using DCD? b. Add module to m.mit.edu? c. Add module to na:ve apps?
2. When will we have the :me? 3. Who will pay?
Easing development burden • All code shared under MIT License • iMobileU – Group of 22+ schools around the world using MIT Mobile
• Poten:al for student projects leveraging m.mit.edu • Accep:ng code contribu:ons
Ques:ons • • • •
How do we priori:ze projects? How do we fund unfunded projects? How much effort should be put into iMobileU? Do we consider tablets to be mobile devices? – Make a tablet look for m.mit.edu? – Make a na:ve iPad app?
Tenta:ve Roadmap Name
Sponsor
Start & End Dates
MIT150 – Phase 2
Ins:tute Affairs
January – April 2011
Campus Tour – Phase 2
Ins:tute Affairs
January – April 2011
MBTA bus tracking
IS&T
Nov 2010 – February 2011
Online Registra:on
IS&T
Sept 2011
Online Scheduling
IS&T
?
Libraries search and renewal Libraries
?
Work Orders*
Facili:es
?
Transporta:on
Transporta:on@MIT
?
News Office improvements
News Office
?
Specialized Campus Tours
Ins:tute Affairs
?
* Funding by sponsor
Appendix
m.mit.edu Web Demographics 14%
iPhone 30%
iPod Touch iPad
13%
Android BlackBerry Non-‐BB Smartphones
9% 12%
6% 10%
6%
Page views during December 2010 Does not include na:ve app traffic
Featurephones Desktop Browsers
Mobile Web Traffic Page views by year
781000 653000
269400 2008
2009 Does not include na:ve app traffic
2010
Na:ve App Sta:s:cs App PlaOorm IniQal Release
AcQve Users
Store RaQng
iPhone
Feb 2010
20,100
4/5 Stars
Android
Nov 2011
1,200
5/5 Stars
Na:ve app traffic is not a meaningful sta:s:c due to how predic:ve caching and periodic checks (e.g. ShuZleTrack polls every 15 seconds).
What other schools are doing • Most have no mobile web or are only just star:ng • Many with mobile web have no na:ve apps
– Stanford phasing out iPhone app in favor of web-‐only approach – Many using MIT’s mobile framework (iMobileU)
• Some use Blackboard Mobile Learn – – – – –
Requires Blackboard LMS No mobile web Na:ve apps for iPhone and BlackBerry, Android coming soon Used by Stanford, Duke, Princeton, UW Strange pricing arrangement apps due to partnership between Blackboard and Sprint • Costs more to use over 3G and 4G, unless phone is on Sprint’s network
Users of MIT’s code • iMobileU
– Group formed around use of open source MIT mobile framework – 22 open members plus many more non-‐members Bucknell University Case Western Reserve Colorado College Harvard University Indiana University North Carolina State University Rice University Saint Louis University Southeast Missouri State University – Suffolk University – University of Central Florida – – – – – – – – –
– – – – – – – – – – –
University of Delaware University of Iowa UMass Boston Notre Dame University of North Carolina University of PiZsburgh University of Texas Aus:n University of Waikato (NZ) Wayne State University West Virginia University William and Mary
