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A little bit of background story of this app:
When I knew Glide for the first time (early spring, I suppose?), I was preparing for a conference presentation. Then, I immediately got the idea of creating conference app. It was so easy to start designing this app. Never though about creating my own app, WITHOUT ANY CODES. Glide just blew my mind! I was so hooked on it that I spent all afternoon to read documentation, watch tutorials, and do hands-on designing. And the next day, my very first app came out and I showcased it in then Glide communityâSpectrum. I learnt so many things from that friendly and helpful community, which made my app almost perfect. I felt so proud at that moment. After that app, I no longer spent that amount of time in another app. Gradually, my enthusiasm faded away and occasionally logged in to check whatâs new (I feel awful for thatâŚ). But still, I was proud of my first conference appâŚuntil yesterday when I saw the new template of conference app designed by @JackVaughan.
I was amazed by the brand-new conference app. Immediately, I realized that I had missed so many new features developed by Glide team during last several months. It seemed that my âdeadâ enthusiasm came alive again. So last night I spent several hours to catch up and finally made it come out today.
To be honest, I borrowed many ideas from Jackâs app, so all credits should go to him. But I made some changes based on my own taste. So I decided to showcase the second version of conference app here. I embedded a Vimeo video on this post. If it isnât supported here, I will just post a video link here, just in case someone wants to have a quick look.
If you have any suggestions or comments, I would love to hear them!
Your renewed enthusiasm is so overwhelming that it may suppress my own. Each second of video play made my vain self-perception of brain size diminish incrementally.
Itâs like you packed ten apps into one. Conference, hotel bookings, sponsors, city guides, favourites, comments, follow-up. Iâd add more but watching it again might create a black hole where my budding app dev pride once existed.
Just to take you down a notch I did find that the sections without any images was not that impressive, but it did give me a visual break from your onslaught of magnificence.
Feel free to share your template with those who bow before you.
Woow! Your high praise made me feel way overwhelmed! Thank you so much!!
As for the all-in-one conference app, I consider it as a necessity for both conference organizers and participants. All that information is exactly what they need concerning a complete conference event, from basic presentation info to follow-up feedback. Speaking of that, I think my app still lack a very important thing, that is, pre-conference registration (especially the fees). I might have a look at âBuy buttonâ later on to add this feature.
You also mention a flaw in my appâthe blank images. Thanks for pointing it out. There are two reasons: first, the whole app is based on real conference event, so all speakers listed there are real persons. It is hard (may be inappropriate) to download and post their images on my app and let others to see, although the sole profile images I displayed on the app were downloaded from public social media like Twitter. Second, it is problem of the image hosting service (not Google drive) where many of my pics were hosted. The server had some issues and I didnât have time to replace those bad pics.
In the end, as you and also a couple of other folks requested, I may share my template when appropriate
Unfortunately, my app doesnât have the chance to makes its debut yet. Last time, it was so close⌠In the end, the conference organizers decided not to use my app because of the tricky privacy issue. Hmm, anyway, if you can give some feedback here, I will feel my work rewarding
Iâm not quite sure about that. It could be because the list of speakers are so long that the Glide will add âsee moreâ by default. Or, it could be because âSpeakersâ is an independent sheet on my Google spreadsheet while the other two (âSessionâ and âThematic panelsâ) are in the same sheet.
Nice work
