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- 1. MoodleMoot UK & Ireland 2017 - London 10th - 12th April Adapt plugins for the App Presented by Marcus Green Analyst Developer
- 2. #MootIEUK17 | @mootieuk Adapting plugins for the App This is not about mobile web browsers But the Mobile App That you install from Google Play Or The Apple App Store
- 3. #MootIEUK17 | @mootieuk A year ago ….. I advised my (then) employer Forget the Moodle Mobile App for the moment. It offers a substandard experience It will be a support nightmare
- 4. #MootIEUK17 | @mootieuk I said you will need to….. Support random hardware Open up unfamiliar web services Fix broken Integrations (all your SCORM no longer belong to you)
- 6. #MootIEUK17 | @mootieuk Sojo University Japan Elton LaClare contacted me The was possible funding To adapt gapfill for the mobile app I thought perhaps I would investigate
- 7. #MootIEUK17 | @mootieuk Now I advise… The Mobile App is the future Go Mobile App First It can be a nice experience You will not miss “the scroll of death”?
- 8. #MootIEUK17 | @mootieuk The Big Picture Most of the world has poor internet Access The Mobile App mitigates this Most of the world will never use a laptop/desktop The mobile phone and tablet is the future
- 9. #MootIEUK17 | @mootieuk How hard is it? To Convert a web app to the mobile app? Question types are surprisingly easy Under 10 days to a working prototype
- 10. #MootIEUK17 | @mootieuk You will need real hardware An android device And an iOS device Some things that work on Android Don’t on IOS
- 11. #MootIEUK17 | @mootieuk Enable Web Services admin/settings.php?section=webservicesoverview Then enable mobile app on server admin/category.php?category=mobileapp Install Chromium (not Chrome) Check you can view your site through the app
- 12. #MootIEUK17 | @mootieuk Acronyms and jargon galore Phone Gap/Ionic/Cordova Angular/jQuery/jQmini/Gulp
- 13. #MootIEUK17 | @mootieuk You might need to.. Change you Web app renderer (PHP) I had to add some divs You will need mobile CSS
- 14. #MootIEUK17 | @mootieuk Test Environment Run ionic server locally Run gulp to incorporate your changes Load up in Chromium
- 15. #MootIEUK17 | @mootieuk Debugging Standard browser based debugger Find mm.bundle.js Set your breakpoints and run your code (feels easier than php debugging)
- 16. #MootIEUK17 | @mootieuk My Experience Added some new classes to my renderer Learned a small amount about angular Wrote some standard javascript
- 17. #MootIEUK17 | @mootieuk Installing your plugin Included as a single zip file When a user attempts to access The zip is transparently downloaded
- 18. #MootIEUK17 | @mootieuk Certificate example Fully documented example https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin= mod_certificate Install it and test it to see how it works
- 19. #MootIEUK17 | @mootieuk Web Services You may have to create new ones Get familiar with curl to test them Read this https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_Mobile
- 20. For more information contact: marcus@moodle.com Gapfill question type updated for Mobile app With support from Sojo University Japan http://www.sojo-u.ac.jp/en/ Many thanks to Elton LaClare and Rob Hirschel
Editor's Notes
- Mobile development is a complex area. This presentation is about giving you a high level overview.
- Moodle has worked well with mobile browsers for a long time, but this is about working with the Moodle mobile App. Something you install from the app store for your device.
- I was also concerned about integrations such as plagiarism, single sign on, mahara integration and others.
- Most scorm editors output Flash and so will work on almost no mobile devices
- My gapfill question type plugin is very popular
- I was delighted when Elton contacted me and asked me if I could modify the gapfill to support the mobile app. I had read about it but not done any significant work previously.
- Students live on their mobile devices, and this will become even more so in the future
- http://www.internetwo https://www.budde.com.au/Research/2014-Africa-Mobile-Broadband-Marketrldstats.com/stats.htm In Africa mobile broadband is doubling each year, with three-quarters of all connections to be 3G/4G by 2020 https://docs.moodle.org/32/en/Moodle_Mobile_synchronization When an activity that can generate offline data is opened in the app, that activity will always be synchronized if the device is connected. For example, when opening a wiki while online, any offline data will be synchronized. Furthermore, each activity type has an automatic synchronization process that runs regularly, usually every 10 minutes.
- Ten days to a working prototype but a total elapsed time before putting into the plugins database of about 6 weeks. But I am a cautious developer.
- https://download-chromium.appspot.com/ https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_Mobile_development_using_Chrome_or_Chromium https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_Mobile_Plugins_Development