Mobile Application for Ra Material / Bring 4th Forums

[SomaticDreams]

Greetings,

I have thought about making a mobile application for those who wish to more easily read and study the Ra materials, as well as browse and post on the bring4th boards. We have a wide variety of ages and people here, so I wanted to first, gauge the interest in such a project.

Secondly, I would like to ask Carla if this is acceptable. I would not charge anything for the development of the application, I simply want to make it easier for others to access and study the material, as well as communicate with fellow wanderers.

Please let me know if you are interested by replying, and feel free to let me know of any functions/features you desire of the application. I have a bit of free time- so I will devote my energy for a while towards this project.

[Star Mztyk]

Go for it..... I am posting this from my iPhone. It works fair in forums but not so great in chats.

[hogey11]

Thank you for offering to provide such a service to all of us! I know I would most likely use it,, so I approve at the very least!

[Unbound]

I think that's a nifty idea.

[akar]

I am everyone with my android tablet, so big yes!

[Bring4th_Austin]

Hey SomaticDreams...thanks so much for offering your services. I know many people who access the forums from mobile phone. I think this would be a great idea.

I've pointed the attention of Bring4th's webmaster and LOO.info's webmaster to this thread in case they might have anything to say about it or any way to help. As far as asking Carla, I'll check with the L/L admin once he gets home from holiday festivities to see if he needs to discuss it with her. I don't see any issue with it.

Awesome idea!

[Horuseus]

Thoughtful offer. Have you considered any specifics however?

- Target Environment (iOS/Android/WP8/BB)
- Data retrieval (LOO Content). Online or Offline DB.
- Forum Integration. Use of API or custom hack (Latter prone to change, former is limited).
- Language. A HTML5 backend Solution may prove worthwhile for easy portability.

Personally speaking It would serve better to have a redirect Mobile formatted site for the LOO. Of course, if you're planning on caching content offline within the App itself, there's the size and potential copyright. I'm not sure what L/L's take on this is.

Regarding mobile posting on the boards. The Administrator/webmaster should consider this solution;

http://mybbgm.com/

[Daydreamin]

I would Love it!

[SomaticDreams]

Hey SomaticDreams...thanks so much for offering your services. I know many people who access the forums from mobile phone. I think this would be a great idea.

I've pointed the attention of Bring4th's webmaster and LOO.info's webmaster to this thread in case they might have anything to say about it or any way to help. As far as asking Carla, I'll check with the L/L admin once he gets home from holiday festivities to see if he needs to discuss it with her. I don't see any issue with it.

Awesome idea!

Thank you for asking. I do want their go-ahead first before even starting a project.

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Thoughtful offer. Have you considered any specifics however?

- Target Environment (iOS/Android/WP8/BB)
- Data retrieval (LOO Content). Online or Offline DB.
- Forum Integration. Use of API or custom hack (Latter prone to change, former is limited).
- Language. A HTML5 backend Solution may prove worthwhile for easy portability.

Personally speaking It would serve better to have a redirect Mobile formatted site for the LOO. Of course, if you're planning on caching content offline within the App itself, there's the size and potential copyright. I'm not sure what L/L's take on this is.

Regarding mobile posting on the boards. The Administrator/webmaster should consider this solution;

http://mybbgm.com/

I have just started to think about the project briefly, but I am really waiting on approval from L/L Research and lawofone.info to even begin.

Target environment would be iOS/Android, unless there is more demand for compatibility. I think this covers much of the market though.

In terms of data retrieval, I was thinking offline. This will allow the app to operate offline when studying the material.

Forum integration I haven't thought much about. I'll have to look into it. MyBB is pretty actively used, so I'm sure there is plenty of documentation out there.

HTML5 is still pretty new, so i'm not super familiar with it.

I'm not sure how long the project will take, but I can certainly begin to take a dive once I get a go ahead. I think it would be fun, and hopefully, helpful for the community.

Thank you so much for the thoughtful suggestions. It is much appreciated.