I should've covered that more in my post. It was actually pretty shocking to talk tech with not only the lawyers, but also a judge.
Lawyers understand law. Plus, the lawyers of the Legal Service Aid organization serve those who cannot afford a lawyer. They're strapped for time, cash and energy. It doesn't make sense to expect them to also stay on top of technology.
They talked about what they would basically need in an app. Most of it was native features of both the iOS and Android platform. Therefore, we said, "Okay, we can build that in a day." And they didn't believe it.
Even when we demo'd and explained how it was all built in 24 hours, they were amazed that tech (when yielded by capable hands) could transform a phone into such a powerful tool for justice.
It was a real eye opener for us. It really got a fire going in us to help these people who spend their entire lives helping others less fortunate than them get a fair chance. We want to continue to build even more tools moving forward, that will hopefully make their lives easier.
I thought about doing mockups for the post, but decided it was already long enough as it was. I may break each one down into mockups still though and post them.
I agree with the others. I think it's still useful to share, because in order to implement I need to build an entire IDE just to implement my features. That's an awful lot of work to see a feature request implemented.
I do agree that implementers are good though. As I mention in the post, I do have one more idea that I didn't share that I am going to build. I'll comment here again when I'm ready to announce it.
If you want testers, let me know or drop a comment with a link in the post. Don't bother trying to get the details right yourself, let the masses help make the decisions for you.
I'm with you on the interoperability, if anyone in the world should understand and be 100% completely behind that, it should be coders and makers of code tools. If we don't demand it and require it, then it's pretty hopeless for the rest of the tech world.