[iRail] Knowing each mobile developper.

Sat Sep 25 23:44:22 UTC 2010

Hello all!

Unfortunately, that will be really hard for me to be on appmarathon...

some info:

* For those who don't follow me on Twitter, Betrains is the first 
belgian application that reach 5.000 downloads. More downloads than "Le 
Soir", "Touring Mobilis" and all official apps. It is rated 4.41 out of 
5 stars in Android Market, The stats are currently growing really fast.

* the application name: I am really allergic to the iSomething for a 
multi-OS application. I would agree to change the name of my application 
if you find something really cool, but the press has already a good 
knowledge of the application ( and some very important company like 
Mobistar, Skynet, Proximus, LG,..) and we should think about that.

    http://www.skynet.be/jack-nl/high-tech/android/details?id=27824
    http://www.lg.com/be_fr/telefonie-mobile/telephones-mobiles/LG-GW620.jsp
    http://www.androidworld.nl/19699/app-review-betrains/
    http://www.newsmaster.be/flow/mobistar/2010/18_pros_nl_hello_art2.html#debut
    http://www.bemobile.be/2010/05/24/betrains-installe-des-murs-virtuels-dans-les-trains-belges/
    http://www.geeksleague.be/hardware/gadgets/5-applications-androide-presque-utile

We should also think to somethin easy to adapt like:

    BeTrains
    BePlanes
    BeTaxi
    BeRoads ( for french speaking guys, BeRoutes might be really funny)
    BeMobility!

But Ok, you can choose an other name if you want I will adapt.

* I cannot wait for the first feedback of your meeting with NMBS. After 
a long reflexion, I think that you should not tell them a lot of things 
about what already exist and maybe not mention that my application grab 
data from you ( even if that's written everywhere in the app and in the 
facebook page of the app, the NMBS guys don't read that)

* I will create a Wiki Page for all the apps.

Christophe

Yeri Tiete wrote:
> Heya,
>
> Ben Turner (http://twitter.com/ben_turner) should be working on an 
> iPhone version of iRail. However, I haven't heard from him in a while. 
> Care to update us, Ben ?
>
> On a different note,
>
> Tim, don't forget Monday it's Apps Marathon 
> (http://www.appsmarathon.eu/). It would be awesome if you could make 
> it. Katrien from Nokia is expecting me (and Pieter) there. And 
> everyone else is welcome too, of course. Just sign up on the site, 
> it's free !
>
> Christophe, Pieter told me you'll be there as well? Please confirm :) 
> We have some discussion to finish about our brand naming (native 
> client wise, and maybe name the iRail Mobile site like all the native 
> apps as well) and we should register a common domain (.mobi-extention).
>
> Tim, could you also show me some of the progress you made already? Is 
> it show-able to Nokia? Pre-alpha is just fine :) Katrien isn't 
> expecting anything, but would be cool if we had something to showoff.
>
> As for the iRail mobile site, Pieter has been working a lot lately, 
> and  we should have a final/working version by Tuesday (when Pieter & 
> me are going to say hi to the NMBS!).
>
> All feedback and bug reports are very welcome (and don't hesitate to 
> create tickets on project.irail.be <http://project.irail.be>).
>
> Christophe, I'll try to implement your stats summary request asap.
>
> Have a nice week-end,
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Yeri Tiete
> yeri at tiete.be <mailto:yeri at tiete.be>
> www.yeri.be <http://www.yeri.be>
> +32 (0)474/61.01.39
>
> On 23 Sep 2010, at 22:09, Tim Besard wrote:
>
>> Hi Christophe!
>>
>> I'm the co-developer of the Symbian (and Maemo!) application, so you
>> can add me to the list.
>>
>> I'll edit the other answers below, inline.
>>
>> 2010/9/23 Christophe Versieux <christophe.versieux at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:christophe.versieux at gmail.com>>:
>>> Hello all.
>>> I would just like to ask everybody a few questions about the work on the
>>> different Mobile clients for iRail.
>>> I have really no idea on who is working on what!
>>> So here is a little form that you may fill with all info you need.
>>> For people that I already know, I won't fill your email adress 
>>> because if
>>> you have many accounts, I don't know which one you prefer to use 
>>> with iRail.
>>> Feel free to fill it and reply with all the info, there are too much "?"
>>> You meet a lot of dev's on BarCamp and other meeting, so I cannot 
>>> believe
>>> there are not more people in this list.
>>> Current Mobile OS supported:
>>> Android - BETrains => Christophe Versieux 
>>> (Christophe.versieux at gmail.com <mailto:Christophe.versieux at gmail.com>)
>>> and Jan Vansteenlandt
>>> Future Mobile OS supported:
>>> iPhone: Louis de Decker and ?
>>> Symbian: Pieter Colpaert
>> Main development is on Maemo richt now, but that should be
>> cross-compatible with Symbian. And in a later stadium Meego as well!
>>
>>> Bada: Johan ( Christophe schoolmate)
>>> Windows Mobile: -someone posted a screenshot with the beginning of 
>>> an app
>>> that showed the closest station around you who whas that?-
>>> BlackBerry: - No info yet -
>>> Palm/WebOS: -No info Yet-
>>> General question
>>> * Are you working on your own client or would you like to work with 
>>> me on an
>>> unified UI + application Name? - to be defined-
>> I'll definitely support a unified user-interface and common
>> application name, which is a very important "marketing point" IMO.
>> However, I think the best way to realize such a unified GUI is to
>> create a set of guidelines; as well as develop a set of resources to
>> use (I'm thinking: icons, etc). So it'll still be our "own" client,
>> but I guess this is what you had in mind already :)
>>
>>> * Would you like to integrate the "chat" system to you OS?
>> Sure, but it won't be a priority for me (maybe Pieter has more
>> interest in this). Personally I think it would be better to focus on
>> our current goals (being iRail, limited to what we discussed at 0x20
>> last week), and make the extra functionality like the chat (and other
>> things we discussed, such as other ways of public transport, or
>> comparison between car and public transport, etc) a feature of the
>> next project ("iTransport"? ^^).
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>> Thank a lot for the info
>>> Cheers
>>> Christophe
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