How to Help Develop the Catholic Diocese App
Mon, 10/17/2011 - 6:32pm
Currently, the main thing this App/project needs is more development and a more robust architecture. If you are an iOS developer of any sort, please go ahead and check out the project on Git, and see if you can help us make the app any better.
When I built the app, I was in a 'get this project out the door' mode, meaning I didn't take the time to make sure everything was up to standards, and all the code was watertight (what software is?).
Please go over and fork the project on GitHub, send up some pull requests, and help make this project awesome!
Specific code issues should be posted to the GitHub issue queue instead of this forum.
Wed, 10/19/2011 - 3:19pm
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Probably something like this:
- Parish finder (with location or name-based search... would also like to incorporate time-based search).
- Diocesan News (laid out as-is on iPhone, and like Instapaper 4.0 on iPad).
- Prayers (like it is now).
- Bishop Info/Blog Section (maybe incorporating your idea of tying into Catholic-Heirarchy, and allowing bishop's blog to be read like news section).
- Podcast (with ability to play episodes right there).
- Parish checkin + photo upload (maybe... something like Foursquare-lite, tied into Parish finder).
- Catechism / Bible tie-in (if only the USCCB allowed open access to these resources!).
I'd like to keep it relatively simple, though... thus for Archstl, I just focused on the first three...
Hey Jeff,
I didn't want to open a GitHub issue for this but you mentioned in one of the comments on GitHub that you had an idea for creating 6 - 8 core features. I was wondering what the other core features that you were interested in building out are.
I think I'd like to contact someone in my diocese and try to build an app for our diocese using this as the framework for an app, so I'd like to heavily contribute to this.