Some of you may recall that I jumped into the world of iPhone development (with an SAP flavour) earlier this year, releasing the free app Benchmarking your NetWeaver knowledge in an iPhone App, a quiz for NetWeaver professionals.
In fact Uber Geek was part of a larger strategy for me to pursue for self-learning purposes the three broad categories of apps as outlined in the Apple Human Interface Guidelines ...
Having already completed a native iPhone application (Uber Geek is an example of this), I set myself to the task of building a hybrid application, once again with an SAP flavour. The result is myHelp, which is a free app that returns searches from help.sap.com in a more readable format on an iPhone device.
Like Uber Geek, I should make it clear that I have shared this on the Apple iTunes store as an entirely free app, and devoid of any advertising. Think of it this way ... many of us share knowledge by writing blogs, wikis etc. As a developer I like to spend my spare time writing apps instead (which themselves help to spread knowledge), and then sharing them with the SAP community.
Learnings
Several of my SAP colleagues have asked about what is involved with iOS iPhone / iPad development. Here are some of my learnings ...
Finally, I should mention that I am not an Apple evangelist, although I do like my iPhone. If I could afford an Android device as well I would look at developing on that platform as well.
Useful Links
Here I would like to share some useful links that I harvested over the past few months ...
Final Thoughts
I would like to acknowledge Daniel Da Vinci, who gave me the idea to implement this as my hybrid app project, Dagfinn Parnas who helped me find the right contacts at SAP to achieve permission to incorporate SAP's copyrighted content in the app, and Sascha Wenninger who provided the language translations in German. THIS is the SAP Community at work!
I am aware of and watching closely the recent excitement about the Sybase acquisition and how that may influence mobility approaches in the SAP world. Maybe my thoughts on that in a future blog.
In my next blog, I will share experiences with Web only content approaches ...
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