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MIT Mobile Platform. Mobile Platform Services. MIT Mobile Web m.mit.edu Hosts mobile “modules” for MIT services Optimized for and accessible to all mobile browsers Native apps iPhone and Android apps Native-only features Content comes from m.mit.edu - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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MIT Mobile Platform
Mobile Platform Services• MIT Mobile Web
– m.mit.edu– Hosts mobile “modules” for MIT services– Optimized for and accessible to all mobile browsers
• Native apps– iPhone and Android apps– Native-only features– Content comes from m.mit.edu
• Device Capability Detection Service (DCD)– Mobile-service-prod.mit.edu– Classifies mobile browsers by capability– Simplifies mobile development for all of MIT
A Brief History of MIT Mobile
Future-proof device support
• Mobile browsers are grouped into 3 “buckets”– Featurephone, Smartphone, and “Touch” (WebKit)
• m.mit.edu displays custom look for each bucket• Grouped via Device Capability Detection Service – mobile-service-prod.mit.edu– Groups browsers according to capability– Free web service for all MIT applications– How Touchstone chooses its mobile interface
Modules on m.mit.edu
Module Service Owner Technology % of 2010 (780K hits)
ShuttleTrack Facilities NextBus XML 29%
Campus Map Facilities ArcGIS 22%
Stellar IS&T XML 9%
Events Calendar IS&T SOAP 5%
People Directory IS&T LDAP 4%
News Office News Office XML 3%
Libraries Libraries Drupal 1%
Emergency Info Facilities RSS < 1%
3DOWN IS&T RSS < 1%
TechCASH Card Services Custom < 1%
MIT150 Institute Affairs Drupal New in 2011
Campus Tour Institute Affairs Custom New in 2011
Sorted by 2010 popularity — does not include native app traffic.
Choosing new projects
1. What is most useful to students?2. What has the broadest impact for MIT?3. Does it make sense in a mobile context?4. Is its data readily available to us?5. If it requires authentication, it should use
Touchstone (no certificate support on most phones).
Why Native?
• Features not available in web browsers– Push notifications, background processing, offline use, better
performance, rich SDK• Greater student involvement– Students are more interested to work on a native project
than a website.– Can give students an official place to publish interesting
native projects.• Marketing tool for the Institute– MIT’s name on the App Store. Helps MIT stand out because
not many schools have native apps.
Easing development burden
• All code shared under MIT License• iMobileU– Group of 22+ schools around the world, most base
their mobile site on MIT Mobile• Potential for student projects leveraging
m.mit.edu• Accepting code contributions
Questions
• Do we consider tablets to be mobile devices?– iPads are used more like laptops than phones,
should they default to the mobile web or the desktop web?
m.mit.edu Web Demographics
30%
12%
6%10%
6%
9%
13%
14%
iPhoneiPod TouchiPadAndroidBlackBerryNon-BB SmartphonesFeaturephonesDesktop Browsers
Page views during December 2010Does not include native app traffic
Mobile Web Traffic
2008 2009 2010
269400
653000781000
Page views by year
Does not include native app traffic
Native App Statistics
App Platform Initial Release Active Users Store Rating
iPhone Feb 2010 25,000 4/5 Stars
Android Nov 2010 2,400 4/5 Stars
Native app traffic is not a meaningful statistic due to predictive caching and periodic checks (e.g. ShuttleTrack polls every 15 seconds).
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