The story of the SDEC Mobile application

1. The Story of the SDEC 11 Mobile
Conference Application
Sean and Mike will present the history of the SDEC Mobile
Conference Application and the lessons learned in creating the
application. The presentation will share the experiences of
developing on Blackberry, Android, and WP7 and their
associated development environments. Also covered will be
data collection and display as User Interface concepts and
architecting the mobile applications to call WCF services.
Sean and Mike will walk through the application for WP7 and
show the solution. Also discussed in particular to WP7 will be
what worked out well, what they would change in hindsight, and
what they would definitely not do again.

2. Introductions
Sean Bueckert
Protegra Inc.
Roles: Technical Architect & Software Developer
Mike Bale
Protegra Inc.
Roles: 4th Year Bachelor of Science (Major: Computer
Science; Minor: Business) Student, University of Manitoba
& Software Developer

3. Agenda
1. Audience Participation
2. Project Goals
3. Code!
4. Summary
5. Questions

4. Audience Participation
Who has a:
• BlackBerry,
• Android,
• WP7,
• iPhone?

5. Audience Participation
Who has developed for:
• BlackBerry,
• Android,
• WP7,
• iPhone?

6. Project Goals
• Explore Mobile Apps
• Line of Business
• Side-by-side
• CRUD
• Existing SOA
• No paper surveys

7. Code

8. Summary
• Business logic in services
• Limited phone specific
infrastructure
• Exception: Internet calls, browser, email.
• Standard service infrastructure
• Service operations tuned to mobile screens
• Mobile web site

9. Questions

10. Thanks
Sean Bueckert
sbueckert@protegra.com
Mike Bale
mbale@protegra.com
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