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CrimeWatch App and City of Fishers Police Department Honored at 2017 Mira Awards

Posted: May 1, 2017 in CrimeWatch, Programming, Social, Software Development, Uncategorized, Visual Studio
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I’m pretty proud of this. Working on the app with the City of Fishers’ support, we’ve brought home a Mira Honorable Mention. After less than a year, we have thousands of users and two six arrests, with hundreds of incidents reported by Fishers residents. Pretty cool. Our team deserves it for all their hard work! Special thanks to Ed Gebhart, Mayor Scott Fadness, Chiefs Mitch Thompson and George Kehl, and the officers and citizens who continue to provide feedback to make this service even better for our community. 🙂

IBJ Article: https://www.techpoint.org/2017/04/mira-awards-winners-2017/

Mira Award Plaques

A little technical detail on the app, for those who are interested:

Platform: Xamarin with Xamarin.Forms, so we only had to write it once to deploy to iOS and Android. Yes, it really works.

Development Window: 18 months. Includes test runs with officers and the community.

Language: C#.

Time to Deploy to Google Play Store: Less than 15 minutes.

Time to Deploy to Approve Apple Developer Account: 3 months. They wouldn’t believe we were the City. Even with a phone call from the Mayor. That was an experience!

Time to Approve App, once we were in: 3 days. They were pretty cool after we were approved. 🙂

 

Cross-Platform Native Mobile Development, In Perspective

Posted: April 1, 2017 in Apple, CrimeWatch, Development, Google, HTML5, Microsoft, Mobile, open source, Programming, Software Development, Uncategorized, Web, Windows, Xamarin
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I’m continuing my resolution to record as many of my programming and technical presentations as possible. I recently spoke at the inaugural Indy.Code() conference. It was excellent, with an incredible speaker line-up. I hope they, too, post some of their presentations online!

Watch the Video on YouTube

From the synopsis:

Should you write your app “native” or use a “cross-platform” solution like React Native, Xamarin, or NativeScript? The new wave of native-cross-compiling solutions provide significant cost savings, code reuse opportunities, and lower technical debt. Does wholly native, per platform development, still play a role in future mobile development? Let’s discuss together.

In this presentation, we’ll discuss:

  • The growth of native, hybrid, and cross-platform mobile development solutions
  • Cost analysis of multiple native and cross-platform apps
  • Considerations for each native and cross-platform solution
  • Lessons learned

Slides are available here: https://t.co/5iLhEoEfen

If you have any questions, I’m happy to answer them! Please email me or ask on Twitter.

 

CrimeWatch App Gets Its First Arrest!

Posted: August 10, 2016 in Apps, CrimeWatch, Uncategorized
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When we built the CrimeWatch app for the City of Fishers, we hoped for two things: 1) citizens will use it to protect our community, and 2) this is a good preparation for the future of how people communicate with Police for non-emergency issues. We’re starting to see that vision bear fruit with the first arrest via an in-app report. There have been over 250 incidents reported, and over 2,800 citizens have installed the app. This is awesome. We’ve been listening and adding new capabilities based on feedback, both from officers, and the community. Please keep the ideas coming – we’re happy to help you!

Watch the WishTV 8 coverage here: http://wishtv.com/2016/08/09/fishers-crime-watch-app-leads-to-first-arrest/

Watch the WRTV6 The Indy Channel coverage here: http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/fishers-pd-touts-success-of-crimewatch-app