APU iPhone Web App
Aside from the call drops and the limited battery life, I love my iPhone. Now that I have it, I find myself using its capabilities all the time–where to find a good carne asada burrito near campus, how to spell dénouement, or the name of the song playing in the office next to mine. But my love for the iPhone isn’t why several very talented people in University Relations are hard at work on developing a native iPhone app (we have a version of the APU website already available at www.apu.edu/m).
APU has chosen to develop an app for the iPhone over other mobile platforms because in the last year, total page views of the www.apu.edu from a mobile device are upwards of 137,000 (9-01-08 to 9-25-09). And of those views, 86.2% are accessing it from an iPhone or iPod Touch.
We have ideas for what to put in our iPhone app, but what do you want? What kind of tools would be helpful for you as a student, alumnus, parent, professor, or fan of APU? We would love to hear your ideas.
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A Direct Call Directory would be amazing. Also, the Chapel schedule (like who is speaking and such) and maybe a way to get the chapels recordings directly from the App. Oh… Tracking the trolleys would be AMAZING! Menus are a must. Oh oh… and could you have it be a robot who does my homework for me? please!
I definitely second the trolly idea, so many times have I been wanting to know where they were and if I walk, would I see them half way and just miss them, or am I just waiting for no reason because they are on break. I think a traffic report would also be helpful, one that tells us how long the lines are in all the food areas so we know the best place to go get food during that 15 minutes break between our 3 hour classes.
I agree with the chapel schedule!
Hours dinning locations are open and what they are serving would be helpful too!
Some great ideas from the comments. If you go to http://www.apu.edu/m/ on your iPhone now, the web app allows you to make calls to several campus locations as well as faculty. Under the Dining Menus tab, you can see what all the food courts are serving. And under Student Resources, you can find a chapel calendar and much more.
I want what every student wants…an iPhone app for Timeslingers! Yes!