Mobile, Mobile, Mobile

We've been stretching this out for a VERY long time. There are many reasons, but perhaps the most challenging one has been finding a Map API that will support all mobile devices that have a full featured web browser integrated within its OS.

Testing mobile applications (even if they are only browser-based) is extremely time consuming, and each mobile device yields different bugs. XC Skies is only going to support one main generic branch of code for mobile devices, so therein lies the challenge over the last many months.

New mobile devices are being released monthly, so finding a solution that will keep up with this is critical. We've chosen a very nice Map API called Leaflet, an open source mobile map API solution. We are fully supporting this initiative and contribute to bug fixes and code whenever we can.

So there it is there.

We're nearly complete with testing all features that the iPhone version has (which is rolled into this new API now) as well as cleaning up items and adding a few new goodies. This mobile version will work on iPad and other touch enabled tablets. Here's a screen shot of it running in Android 2.2 just in case you don't believe us :)



This will be released sometime next week.