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A mobile app for Decidim

Avatar: Virgile Deville Virgile Deville
04/10/2018 18:15  

Would need an extensive API coverage. Could be interesting to follow the Rocket.Chat model where one downloads only one app and connects to a decidim instance by specifying a url.

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Avatar: Antti Hukkanen Antti Hukkanen
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I am very much in favor of the mobile app. I've also wondered why the "Mobile App" has been in the 2017/2018 roadmap but I haven't seen any discussions or issues relating to that:
https://docs.decidim.org/features/en/general-features/

Some cities have asked whether this is possible and it seems to be a major issue for them to put their trust in the platform (where commercial options exist that provide a mobile app). Especially with the younger generation, that seems to be the go-to user interface for using any digital systems.

Another thing I've discussed with some cities is the branding side of the app. Obviously, most people won't know the "Decidim" brand in advance but they know the city's name and can search the app store with the city's name. Therefore, it may be necessary to release city-specific apps for some cities. That would help also with consistent visual style between the web platform and the app.

Avatar: Antti Hukkanen Antti Hukkanen

Some cities may even require that the visual style would need to follow their own brand guidelines. So it would be great in case the application's foundations were developed as a library in a way similar to the core Decidim platform that it would allow:

a) The Decidim's "main" application to utilize it.
AND
b) Allow the development of custom applications on top of it.

We've also heard about a case story of a Finnish city (~50k inhabitants) where they tried a web platform many years ago but could not get anyone to use it. Now they released their own application last year which has received over 2000 downloads.

Avatar: Andrés Andrés

+1 for city-specific apps, I think it's a must. For instance, people will search for "Helsinki", and they don't know what's Decidim (nor they should).

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