I was part of the team dispatched to 2012 Content in Context to demo our new mobile study app (if you want more info about that, go here). I attended a session that had a panel made up of members from large educational publishing companies. A member in the audience asked the panel a question: [...]
A successful (and enjoyable) Content Management System (CMS) implementation depends on some key technical and business decisions at the outset.
What do you mean, cross-platform? Cross-platform mobile development, the white whale of the mobile developer. Cross-platform mobile development can mean many things to many people. In my opinion as a developer, for an application to be cross-platform, it has to hit these three points: Have a single code base Building a new feature means it [...]
If you’re just getting into mobile development, you’ll want to choose a framework that will work within your technical conditions: platforms, languages, support, etc. Markus Falk put together a nice chart to compare the technical features of more than 30 mobile frameworks available. Check out his chart to get started. After going through technical specs, [...]
For iOS and Android Updated December 7, 2012 Recently, we built a mobile app using PhoneGap. One of the better things to come out of it is a skeleton for future mobile app development for iOS and Android projects. We were able to bundle both the Eclipse project and Xcode project files together. This can [...]
Introduction These days everyone is looking to port their existing application(s) to mobile devices. Some of those folks are using tools like RhoMobile, PhoneGap, Appcelerator, etc. to write their applications with HTML5/JavaScript/CSS and then port the same code base to various mobile phone platforms with minimal to zero extra effort. In a perfect world, your [...]
Once you understand how structured content works, it is easy to see its power and how XML fits in the picture. The term “structured content” refers to content that has been authored using a template that has a specific set of styles and a set structure. For example, a template may have a section called [...]
When publishers look to add new digital formats to their product offerings, we have sometimes seen them adopt a process where they develop the digital product only after the print product has been finalized. This process usually involves copying content from the print product to the new product and then making a lot of manual [...]
In order for your printed products to be available on iPhones, iPads, tablets, Kindles, smart phones, and other mobile devices, you will want to convert them to an eBook format. If you already store content separate from presentation it will be fairly easy to add eBooks to your product lineup. You have less control over [...]
In 2011, a client approached us looking to take their published content to the web. Given the short time frame, they needed a way of delivering their content and assessments in an online environment along with the ability to track student achievement. Neither of those tasks is simple by themselves, let alone all three together. [...]