Quick poll on Pool Players and Phones....

[The Renfro]

Trying to hash out a handicapping solution for tournaments and need to get a feel for what we would be up against.... The solution leverages technology so to be part of the national database you would have to be able to get on the web to update scores as matches happen.....

discussion is here... https://www.facebook.com/groups/8andOut/

 

[krupa]

I'm not sure what you're thinking but do you need to make a platform-specific app? What about just doing it as a web application (HTML5/Javascript/etc)?

NAPA has a great "app" -- which is just a web page formatted for mobile/small screens -- to keep track of weekly matches.

 

[Str8PoolPlayer]

I carry an Galaxy Note 4 for personal use & I-Phone 6+ for business. Yeah, I know, (2) Phones ... WTF ?

 

[Allen Brown]

The laptop access is very surprising. I use a tablet or my phone for internet. I have a desktop for business.

 

[The Renfro]

I'm not sure what you're thinking but do you need to make a platform-specific app? What about just doing it as a web application (HTML5/Javascript/etc)?

NAPA has a great "app" -- which is just a web page formatted for mobile/small screens -- to keep track of weekly matches.

No it doesn't need to be platform specific app... I was just getting a little extra information... And if you wanted to offer an offline version that didn't interface into the database for practice or matching up then maybe platform specific would be on the menu later....

 

[Busboy]

I'm old school using blackberry right now but about too go too android

 

[The Renfro]

keep the votes coming... so far it's about what I expected...

 

[Floppage]

I'm not sure what you're thinking but do you need to make a platform-specific app? What about just doing it as a web application (HTML5/Javascript/etc)?

NAPA has a great "app" -- which is just a web page formatted for mobile/small screens -- to keep track of weekly matches.

This is actually pretty easy to do using Responsive UI. A couple of the local pool leagues use a site that is responsive so that even the league admins can enter the scoresheets on their phones. One set of pages simply changes the visual representation base on viewport size and browser capabilities. It has been fairly well received by players. You definitely want to take advantage of lots of built-in caching to make it faster but thats easy to do too.

You can use bootstrap or any number of other frameworks to make responsive sites easy to maintain and get up and running fast. You can do quite a bit with jquery too so things that you may think of as mobile app features like location awareness, swipe gestures, etc. would still work.

Another option is using something like Xamarin where you code for one app and simply compile it for other frameworks. The dev licenses are a little pricy up front but then you'd have one codebase for your entire app.

Let me know if you have more questions about this. I may be a C player in pool but I'm a professional in this world.

 

[The Renfro]

This is actually pretty easy to do using Responsive UI. A couple of the local pool leagues use a site that is responsive so that even the league admins can enter the scoresheets on their phones. One set of pages simply changes the visual representation base on viewport size and browser capabilities. It has been fairly well received by players. You definitely want to take advantage of lots of built-in caching to make it faster but thats easy to do too.

You can use bootstrap or any number of other frameworks to make responsive sites easy to maintain and get up and running fast. You can do quite a bit with jquery too so things that you may think of as mobile app features like location awareness, swipe gestures, etc. would still work.

Another option is using something like Xamarin where you code for one app and simply compile it for other frameworks. The dev licenses are a little pricy up front but then you'd have one codebase for your entire app.

Let me know if you have more questions about this. I may be a C player in pool but I'm a professional in this world.

Much appreciated... Have several things in mind in regards to your world and I am likely a D in it LOL

 

[krupa]

This is actually pretty easy to do using Responsive UI. A couple of the local pool leagues use a site that is responsive so that even the league admins can enter the scoresheets on their phones. One set of pages simply changes the visual representation base on viewport size and browser capabilities. It has been fairly well received by players. You definitely want to take advantage of lots of built-in caching to make it faster but thats easy to do too.

You can use bootstrap or any number of other frameworks to make responsive sites easy to maintain and get up and running fast. You can do quite a bit with jquery too so things that you may think of as mobile app features like location awareness, swipe gestures, etc. would still work.

Another option is using something like Xamarin where you code for one app and simply compile it for other frameworks. The dev licenses are a little pricy up front but then you'd have one codebase for your entire app.

Let me know if you have more questions about this. I may be a C player in pool but I'm a professional in this world.

My biggest pet-peeve in software development these days... how the f*** do you pronounce "xamarin"!?

 

[Floppage]

My biggest pet-peeve in software development these days... how the f*** do you pronounce "xamarin"!?

I was at a conference early on when it came out and was told it is pronounced with a "Z" sound and the rest similar to the name "Cameron".