Ellucian Mobile Platform Edition - Android & iOS Native App Implementation
Install, configure and deploy Ellucian Mobile Platform Edition.
Objective
Install, configure and deploy Ellucian Mobile Platform Edition.
Ellucian Mobile Platform Edition
"Ellucian Mobile, powered by Ellucian Ethos, provides faculty, prospects, students, staff, and other constituents with access to key campus information and services from their mobile devices..." - Ellucian.com
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Ellucian Mobile Platform Edition
Ellucian Mobile integrates with Ellucian ERPs to provide its services and features natively on iOS and Android devices. Ellucian mobile features an integration that allows external websites to be embedded within the mobile application as a custom page.
Ellucian Mobile Integration Server
Mobile Integration Server enables native push notifications and provides an administrative web frontend for managing integration, and IAM.
Ellucian Mobile Source Code
Android source is written in java. iOS source was written in objective-c.
Challenges
Enhancing Ellucian mobile external website integration to pass user identity
- Enhancing Delivered Web Integration - Incorporating self-service websites as custom pages within Ellucian mobile posed a technical challenge of securly passing user credentials
Solutions...
- Technology Research and Implementation - Utilized Xcode and Android Studio to research and modify Ellucian Mobile's source code, enabling integration through iOS and Android webview interfaces.
- User Authentication Enhancement - Customized Ellucian Mobile to pass authenticated user keys to external websites, ensuring a seamless and secure user experience.
- SharePoint Website Development - Developed small, single-page SharePoint websites optimized for mobile devices for seamless access within Ellucian mobile.