The current Droidcon funnel uses a backend templating engine that spits out HTML. Browsing this on a mobile device means a long roundtrip every time you go from one detailed view to another, and is not a great experience.
Lets hack this to:
- site scrape to expose APIs for the funnel listing & detailed cards (possibly use https://nodejsmodules.org/tags/scrape or http://scrapy.org/)
- dump a manifest file with the necessary assets
- design & build a concept web app (or android app) that enables easy browsing with smooth preloading (no ability to vote/comment for now)
- stretch - build a visualization of the funnel as an android app that facilitates slicing & dicing the data by: a) track, b) votes, c) tag cloud
All data is available via JSON APIs too. Checkout the hasgeek/zalebi repo on GitHub for the alpha Android app. Beta builds next week.
I wasnt sure these were public yet. Thanks!
For those looking up the repo, check the dev branch for the updates.
Also, here are the APIs:
List of talks: https://funnel.hasgeek.com/droidcon2013/json
Talk details: https://funnel.hasgeek.com/droidcon2013/860-native-ui-portable-logic/json