[Xerte] Re: Android App v0.0002

Wed Oct 19 10:04:17 BST 2011

The main focus of attention at the moment is to get the 'main' part of the app working right: I don't want to get into all the different pages until I know how the app itself will work: there's enough there for playing around with for now: I like the idea of the 'learning spaces' as a way of organising resources, and I really like the idea that users could share them, but unsure how to do that just now. It would also be good if you can pick up a pre-configured learning space from a url, and even better if there was, say, a toolkits template that made them... that would close the loop nicely (you can see where this is going). I also like the idea that this isn't just about Xerte content, but about *any* content. I also like the idea that the app might support the user in capturing content themselves: we can get at the camera and mic and so can capture video, images, sounds, which the user might then be able add to a learning space...  ... and then there's xpert, where users can go and find other materials, which might have a part to play somewhere. A VLE might also have some role in providing content...

Loads of ideas, please chip in with yours,

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Harding, Julie
Sent: 19 October 2011 09:42
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Android App v0.0002

I have now added a plain text page, Bullet page, graphic/sound page and 2 video pages. One video in FLV and one in MP4. Only the FLV works and that was actually a converted captivate file. Now that format was hopeless on a smartboard as the sound was really distorted but sound and caption work great on my Samsung Galaxy so win win there. The pages that don't work are the RSS feed page and the tabbed navigator?
Really pleased with this progress so far. Do you have ambitions to make some kind of assessment working in this way. Maybe a simple MCQ or even the timeline drag and drop would be good? I understand there is a long way to go yet but at your speed of development I have no worries :)
Cheers
Julie

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 18 October 2011 16:45
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Android App v0.0002

Updated app to try from http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/downloads/applicatin.apk . Comments and ideas really welcomed at this early stage...

Screenshots
The home screen shows your learning spaces. A learning space is a collection of learning resources. The buttons allow you to add a space, delete a space, and sort by name, created date or number of views. Ultimate idea is to allow users to share their learning spaces (somehow)

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Here's a learning space, showing most of the supported things so far:

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You can add content by scanning QR codes (can't screenshot that).

A toolkits folder with one learning object (now, when you add content I check out what sort of xml I get back, so those problems should have gone...)

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And LO content in the few supported pages types so far...

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An RSS feed:

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A youtube video (use the direct embed link, eventually I'll sniff this out and make it easier) in the form http://www.youtube.com/embed/qmvA-OMysmM

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An FLV file - mp4 should work as well...
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And a sound file (with albeit pretty crude controls so far)
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and you can add pretty much any web content as the phone will open anything it doesn't recognise in the phones browser via a WebView object:

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So that includes playing the LOs directly on the play_ url if the device can cope with it....
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