Prersentation made at Jboye11 in Aarhus, Denmark. After a decade of developing for the desktop, the new frontier for the Region Västra Götaland (VGR) intranets is mobile. Kristian presents how VGR has solved a few of the problems associated with mobile development. A practical hands-on presentation on how one organization is developing apps for their mobile intranet.

1. A standards based alternative to
'the app way'
J.Boye 11, Aarhus, 9th November
Kristian Norling
Findwise
KristianNorling

2. Region Västra Götaland
Public sector
50.000 employees

4. © Region Västra Götaland

5. Abstract
Working hard on mobile intranets/web as well. We have
choosen to not going the app way, rather building on
html5 first then "compiling" the web site for app
market distribution. A killer combo. After a decade of
developing for the desktop, the new frontier for the
Region Västra Götaland (VGR) intranets is mobile.
Kristian will present how VGR has solved a few of the
problems associated with mobile development. A
practical hands-on presentation on how one
organization is developing apps for their mobile
intranet.

6. Agenda
• Developing mobile intranet apps, our
thinking on the subject
• Developing for many platforms at once, is it
even possible?
• How to develop intranet apps
• Things we think will happen in the (near)
future
• Do's and don’ts

7. “8. In both internetworked markets and
among intranetworked employees, people
are speaking to each other in a powerful
new way.”
The Cluetrain Manifesto

8. We think mobile...
• Simple to use
• Simple in design
• Simple technical architecture

9. Developing mobile intranet apps
• The default standard browser we use is...
ancient
• We have to support standards only
• NO plug-in technology
• We have standardized on Android and iOS
for mobile
• WebKit is IT

10. Developing for many
platforms at once
• New, dual strategy for intranets:
Mobile targeted first - Desktop second...
• Forget about developing native apps as a
priority - not cost effective in the long
run...
• Open Source - lots of good stuff
• Stick to the HTML5 standard (and others
by W3C
• do not EVER consider Flash etc.

11. How do we develop
intranet apps?
• We eat our own dog food
• Developing accordingly to our reference
architecture (SWE)
• We do clean HTML5 front end apps - on
top of...
• Nice robust REST / WS based backend
• Use (something like) PhoneGap to make
“native” apps for distribution.

16. Check out the prototype
http://vgr-portalramverk.dev.netrelations.se/mobile/home.html

17. Things we think will happen
in the (near) future
• Notifications
• GPS
• Kamera
• Bluetooth
• The Phone is the Security Device
• Thoughts on a mobile phone enhanced
intranet (SYS 64738 blog post)

18. Do's
• DO consider a dual strategy - or even
better focus on...
• DO mobile primarily
• DO use HTML5
• DO use PhoneGap or other similar options

19. ... and don’ts
• Do NOT develop for the lowest common
denominator - skip IE7 and IE8
• Do NOT use plug-in technology
• Do NOT develop native apps
• Do NOT listen to me... make up your own
mind

20. Questions?

21. Thank you!
kristian.norling@findwise.com
findwise.com
sys64738.se
twitter.com/kristiannorling
www.slideshare.net/kristiannorling
www.linkedin.com/in/kristiannorling