Apps/Apptastic

This page contains all of the important details for Apptastic.

Elevator Pitch

Apptastic is a set of experimental apps, written for various traditional apps platforms (Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Facebook).

The objective is to determine barriers of entry, as well as virtues and shortfalls of the respective development and deployment processes.

Overview

• IRC Channel: #devecosystem on irc.mozilla.org

Android

• Devs: Jen Fong, Sean McArthur
• Platform: Java
• Code Repo: https://github.com/seanmonstar/Droidzilla
• Notes: https://ecosystem.etherpad.mozilla.org/3
• Store URL: TBD

iOS

• Devs: Matt MacPherson, James Long
• Platform: ObjC
• Code Repo: https://github.com/tofumatt/bugzillersearch
• Notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/ios-notes
• Store URL: N/A (unlikely, see notes)

Windows Phone

• Dev: Arron Schaar
• Platform: C#
• Code Repo: https://github.com/pennyfx/Windows-Phone-Bugzilla-Quick-Search
• Notes: https://ecosystem.etherpad.mozilla.org/4
• Store URL: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/855bb549-7228-4fca-829c-34c96a3d44af

Facebook

• Dev: Piotr Zalewa
• Platform: HTML/CSS w/Facebook APIs
• Code Repo: https://github.com/zalun/facebook-bugzilla-search
• Notes:
  • https://github.com/zalun/facebook-bugzilla-search/blob/master/doc/facebook-experience.mm (FreeMind mind map)
• Live URL: http://apps.facebook.com/bugzilla-search

Project Status

• Code complete: April 18, 2012
• next steps: Publish results
  • blog post introducing project
  • individual blog posts, one for each platform
  • "lessons learned" post

Specs / Useful links

• Apptastic specs (meeting notes)
• 2012-04-19 Apptastic reports -- what was hard / easy / lessons learned