Feldon Greg’s SOE Live Schedule for iPhone/iPad
Greg “Rothgar” Spence, now Lead Programmer for EverQuest Next, has updated his popular SOE Live Schedule app for SOE Live 2013!
Greg developed this iOS app three years ago and, in his extremely limited spare time, has maintained it every year for SOE Live, adding Retina and iPhone 5 support over time. This app has a “My Schedule” feature which lets you choose which panels should appear on your schedule, as well as providing Dining and Transportation information.
From the Apple Store’s product page:
SOELive is your official guide to Sony Online Entertainment’s SOE Live convention. Access the full list of panels and events and even build your own custom schedule. View maps of the convention floor, keep up-to-date with a live news feed, view a list of nearby dining options and access important travel i0nformation.
EQ2Wire’s SOE Live Schedule for Android, Windows Phone, Palm, Symbian, Blackberry, and iPhone
Our own Dethdlr, Lead Programmer for EQ2U, saw the need for an Android app and stepped up to develop a web application which works on nearly all smartphones, even in airplane mode!
New for 2013!! I have managed to get LocalStorage working, which means that we now also support a “My Schedule” feature where you can pick your panels and view them in one schedule page!
The EQ2Wire SOE Live Schedule “web app” is really just a skinned jQuery Mobile website that uses same data as the official SOE Live app, but was designed to work in offline mode as well. It works on a large number of devices, but you may experience flickering and a bit slower performance than you would see in a native app.
Using the EQ2Wire SOE Live Schedule app
There is no app to “install”. Simply visit the EQ2Wire SOE Live Schedule website on your phone and then Add a Bookmark to your Home Screen. This will add an icon to your phone’s home screen that lets you access the SOE Live schedule immediately.
NOTE: On some devices, unless you save it as a Bookmark first, you won’t get the proper icon added to your Home Screen.
How can I share the app?
If your phone has a QR Reader App, you can simply point it at the graphic below and you’ll be taken to the appropriate website:
If you have any questions or comments about the SOE Live Schedule app, please feel free to post a comment below!
NOTE: Rage comments about Android vs. iPhone will be deleted on sight.
This is awesome. Thanks so much Deathdlr and Feldon!
Awesome tool !
Win7? What no Win8?
EWWWWWWW
It should work on 8.
Where is the u.eqwire app? :p
http://u.eq2wire.com/m/soelive/
This thing is great, was awesome last year, the map will be invaluable this year (it being a new venue).
The “My Schedule” is a great feature . . . that I won’t be able to use (and this stems TOTALLY from OCD and my inability to be in 2 places at once).
If you schedule something at 4:00 on Saturday (for example) then you schedule another event at the exact same time . . . it removes the first event. This would be GREAT for most people . . . they KNOW you can’t be in two places at once, have come to terms with it, have moved on, and will pick one thing to go to and be happy.
I, on the other hand, still think I can somehow learn the ability to be in two places at once and want to be able to list BOTH activities . . . Then I can decide, in the moment, which one to go to . . . or at the very least convince/bribe someone else to tape one event while I’m at the other.
But since I can’t list more than one event on the same time and day, I’ll have to make a written list, or just use the “Full Schedule” version . . . which is completely awesome and I thank you.
Again, the entire site is COMPLETELY and TOTALLY awesome, I appreciate EVERY second it took to program it . . . I just need to be able to afford a better therapist . . . ( – ;
You can add two events at the same time frame on the EQ2Wire app. It doesn’t check times. This feature is provided for those who managed to get a Time Turner before they were all smashed.
Hmm . . . It didn’t work on my phone. I’m using the stock browser on my Galaxy Note II (though using the stock app could be my problem). I’ll try downloading Chrome or Firefox from the Google Play Store and see if it works with them. I just know that every time I tried to add an EQ2 and EQN session at the same time, the second would bump the first one.
I’ll give one of those other browsers a try. Thanks!
I was talking about an app with all the ueqwire stuff 😉
Well, technically, your web browser IS an app . . . and it DOES connect to all the EQ-Wirey goodness . . .
I haven’t built an EQ2U app to look up your Characters, Guilds, and Items yet. I’d want it to be a native app that caches a lot of data on the device so you don’t have to be always connected or always on Wifi to use it. So that means I’d have to rebuild the views on the device.
And frankly, I think the killer app would be if we could join chat channels in-game from a mobile device. Then people could be LFG from their sofa, or while otherwise logged out of EQ2. Right now, trying to build a group with friends in-game is like ships passing in the night. Everyone logs in at different times and misses each other. I’d build an EQ2U App including in-game chat and messaging in a heartbeat if we had that functionality. Otherwise, it’s just a data browser.
Then again, if EQ2U is popular enough, maybe I just write a native app with our own chat system…
Can you still join chat via jabber? I haven’t seen anything on this in quit a while but then I haven’t been looking either.
This was taken offline shortly after the security breach. Otherwise, I’d integrate a Jabber client into an EQ2U app.