iPhone App?

[melodyharmonius]

Ok - please don't hate me if this has been answered or if this puts me in that special category of dante's inferno - but has anyone created/planning to create an iPhone app for the Dragon*Con schedule?

Just curious.

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[jarissa]

Y'know, I think we had a conversation about that on the scheduling tag but I don't remember whether there was an end result. I'll ask wookieegunner after dinner.

[jarissa]

Himself tells me that the "ICS" or "iCal" format is compatible with your iPhone, though I got a bit foggy on whether it's something you can directly download to your iPhone or if it's something you need to first download to your desktop and then synchronize. It's not an app, exactly, but if you go to the websites of many specific Tracks (such as the MMO track!) you will be able to download the iCal files that most interest you.

(I've got an old-fashioned Palm T|X; I'll take the Google doc, with thanks!)

[dire_epiphany]

Hey Everyone,

I am extraordinarily busy at the moment, but wanted to take a second to tell you all that there will not be an iPhone/iPod applet this year, however the schedule will be available in a large variety of formats, including Google docs and PDFs.

Don't let it get you down though - I have something really special lined up for next year...

How's that for an allusion to all sorts of things...?

~Cassy

[drhaggis]

There is a great free iPhone / iPod Touch app called "Livecon" which provides a nicely formatted offline copy of convention schedules.

I have requested that Dragoncon be added to the convention list, but the app writer needs to contact the head programmer for the convention to co-ordinate.

Surely this is quicker than writing a convention specific app?

[sparr0]

As was discussed elsewhere... If the app writer can't make his app work based on the public schedule files then that means more work for the D*C staff, who are already overworked. And if he can, then he doesn't need to contact them.

The iPhone already has an app called Calendar. That app is capable of displaying published calendars (synchronized via iTunes). Every portable calendar app on every platform can read the same ICS files. Why should anyone do any extra work for the iPhone when it can already (mostly) use the same format as everything else?

[glasscannon]

As an iphone owner, I was under the impression that one of the major failings of the iphone is that it can't read ICS files, which is probably where the con schedule app came from in the first place. But Google tells me that all changed with firmware 3.0, so additional apps may not be needed. I haven't played around with it at all -- I've never used an ICS and never been to Dragon*Con -- but there's an article here that includes a walk-through on setting up various ICS docs (I think -- haven't used it, don't know all the lingo, etc

[drhaggis]

To answer the original question, a free iPhone / iPod Touch app called "

There is now an iPhone/iPod Touch app

[coreapps]

There is an iPhone app for Dragon*Con 09 it just came out last night:

http://bit.ly/dragoncon09