2023-07-27 Mobile Meeting notes

Github Flow

• GitFlow documentation / best practices? - http://datasift.github.io/gitflow/IntroducingGitFlow.html

• For now, open-edx-mobile applications will document that they are using GitFlow branching / merging strategies.

Future Strategy / Direction

Themes:

• Expanding usage / adoption of Mobile

  • understanding usage blockers

• Full offline course content / expanded access

• Improved native and performant options for mobile

• Shift to learner support and clear messaging over current listing pages

Additional Notes

• Tutor Android plugin - https://overhang.io/tutor/plugin/android

  • This simplifies APK process, but doesn't exist for iOS yet

  • RG has done some discovery, uncovered this - https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX

  • https://developer.apple.com/xcode-cloud/

• Might Github Actions enable mobile builds more easily

  • currently RG team has added Github Actions for testing and a few other behaviors

Learning Site

• It is possible to implement as feature module within the application - some refactoring with color system / etc are necessary but this will simplify deployment and use

• Refactoring separates database layer so that each learning site can have its own database.

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API Migration

• This effort to be reviewed for development in the coming weeks and beyond.

• To get started, having a plan shared for what the API changes planned will be is a good next step.

Mobile Downloads

• Studio - Mobile Stats Stage 6

  • Should share thoughts about this with the Aspects team to see how this could be added to Aspects

  • This feature might be summarized as both:

    • a mobile stats and summary view - Aspects related (usage rate, block access patterns, drop-offs etc)

    • a linting system to understand which blocks are available on mobile / downloadable