Android Remote Control App for Hulu
Demo of a “lean-back” Hulu viewing experience, implemented by a senior capstone team here in GVSU’s School of Computing. The project involved three primary components: an Android application that takes in user input (queue video and social actions), a server hosted on Google App Engine that maintains user information and provides a rendezvous point for queued video, and a Chrome...
Read MoreGVSU Laker Mobile
We’ve just refreshed GVSU Laker Mobile for Android! Version 1.1.2 introduced a number of exciting new features and also eliminates those 1 or 2 bugs that were bothering you all. Well ok, maybe there were 3 bugs. In any case, the new version includes a variety of new features, including a brand new horizontally scrolling tab bar main view, the GVSU events calendar, the GVSU library,...
Read MoreGVSU Blackboard app for iPhone!!
If you’re like us GVSU grad students working in the School of Computing’s GVSU Mobile Apps and Services Lab the two loves of your life are at minimum your shiny new iPhone and GVSU’s learning management system, aka as “Blackboard”. We like the rest of you have been sad that these two objects of our affection have not found a meaningful way to integrate themselves. ...
Read MoreShop Social!
We’re pleased to announce the availability of MASL’s latest mobile app: Shop Social. The app is available on both iOS devices as well as Android. Shop Social is an experimental shopping app, and we’re hoping you all will find it quite useful and fun. Basically, we’ve been trying to figure out what kind of shopping experiences can be created in a bricks and mortar...
Read MoreProfs Dulimarta & Engelsma Talk Mobile Tech on Radio Show
Professors Hans Dulimarta and Jonathan Engelsma were recently interviewed by Ray Leonard, host of the “Ordinary People Extraordinary Planet” show. The show features “ordinary” people doing “extraordinary” things for others and the planet. In this particular program, Hans and Jonathan discuss mobile application technology with Ray. They also share some...
Read MoreGVSU Laker Mobile available for Android
The GVSU Mobile Applications and Services Lab (MASL) is pleased to announce the availability of GVSU Laker Mobile on the Google Android Market. GVSU Laker Mobile puts all things GVSU right into your pocket: Campus news, maps, tweets, web-cams, photos, videos, directory services and more! The application is also available on the Apple App Store for iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad. You can read...
Read MoreGVSU Mobile Apps and Services Lab in the News
A couple of weeks ago GVSU issued a formal press release announcing the Laker Mobile app that students in the Mobile Applications and Services Lab implemented. The same day a GR Press reporter came by and interviewed us in the lab, and the resulting article (which also covered similar projects at other universities around Michigan) was published on the front page of the GR Press over the...
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