Can I do this in Aware IM?

MichaelQ

I need to produce a native Smartphone App (IOS & Android) which records events photographically. The user takes one or two photographs of each event and they are automatically stamped with date & time and geographic location, then uploaded to the server. From what I have read, this should be no problem for AwareIM.

The critical aspect of this is that the photographs must be auditable. In other words each photograph must have been taken from within the app....the user must not be able to substitute previously taken photographs from their photo library. Is that doable?

Thank you.

Michael

BenHayat

MichaelQ wrote
I need to produce a native Smartphone App (IOS & Android) which records events photographically. The user takes one or two photographs of each event and they are automatically stamped with date & time and geographic location, then uploaded to the server. From what I have read, this should be no problem for AwareIM.

The critical aspect of this is that the photographs must be auditable. In other words each photograph must have been taken from within the app....the user must not be able to substitute previously taken photographs from their photo library. Is that doable?

Thank you.

Michael

With Aware, you can create "Hybrid" app, not Native app.
Everything else you said, can be done and you can store the image in DB and lock it.

MichaelQ

Thanks Ben.

Does "Hybrid" mean only that a connection to the server is required to run the app and its not a browser based app?

Michael

BenHayat

MichaelQ wrote
Thanks Ben.

Does "Hybrid" mean only that a connection to the server is required to run the app and its not a browser based app?

Michael

With Hybrid (As Aware uses Phonegap from Adobe), you first build your Aware mobile app like you would as a "browser app", which means you must have a connection with the server, just like desktop. Once done and working, you can either publish your mobile app as a Browser app with a URL OR you can package it as a Hybrid app that user can load and install this Hybrid app on the phone. A Hybrid app is a "Browser app" that is packaged inside a custom browser that user don't see the browser anymore. But the app still works like a browser app. If you update your app on the server, the hybrid see your latest changes to you server app.
But yes, they need connection either via WiFi or tower.

MichaelQ

So the Hybrid app can be published on the Apple App store?

BenHayat

MichaelQ wrote
So the Hybrid app can be published on the Apple App store?

Yes, as if it was a "Native" app as far as Apple and Google are concerned. When our Aware app gets packaged, it gets packaged into a "Native" shell for each OS, so the user downloads and installs it just like a Native app. They don't even know it's running in browser.

the Kendo UI library that Aware uses and plus Aware's fast AJAX, it makes the app running on Mobile just like it was running from local phone. But gives you the huge advantage that data is always centralized.
But be very careful when you deal images with mobile and bandwidth. Design your app in a way to get an image when you need to.

When saving image to DB, be sure to store images with different sizes so you won't send a huge image to show as a thumbnail. This will kill your app.

Check the Tips&Tricks section. I wrote a thread on Image scaling and provided code.

MichaelQ

Thanks.

BenHayat

Here is how to crop an image and maintain aspect ratio. In here I crop it to 64pix.

If Vendor.Bus_Logo WAS CHANGED AND Vendor.Bus_Logo IS DEFINED AND IMAGE_WIDTH(Vendor.Bus_Logo)>64 or IMAGE_HEIGHT(Vendor.Bus_Logo)>64 Then Vendor.Bus_Logo=SCALE_IMAGE(Vendor.Bus_Logo,IMAGE_WIDTH(Vendor.Bus_Logo)/(IMAGE_HEIGHT(Vendor.Bus_Logo)/64),64)

ACDC

I would be interested to know if the offline capability of AwareIM would allow the app to behave when there is no network connection . This would give it limited native functionality which I think is needed for the kind of description you provide for the app.
I have a similar requirement where a user needs to take a snap shot with the camera in the field , but sometimes there is no network 🙁

MichaelQ

I'm kind of resigned to needing a live internet connection, but it would be great if an offline capability were possible.

Michael

BenHayat

We can hope next version will improve the "Offline"