EVE Technology Lab

I would love if someone made an ISIS app and/or HTML5 webapp designed for tablet use.

Many of us may have one or more tablet devices. These handy little machines have already great apps such as Neocom for iOS and Aura for the Android platform but AFAIK these lack an ISIS clone. The touch interface would surely be great for dragging things around and looking up some information such as ship traits and information. There need not be any need to design an UI from scratch as the ISIS UI and UX is great IMHO. It just needs to be ported to our mobile devices.

A simple Skill API link could also be used to lookup the mastery levels for any ship. CCP permitting, 3D models of the ships could be integrated in the same fashion as we get previews in-game. (I am here thinking of the video Chribba posted on Youtube with the SOE ships.) This option would not be a requirement; however I regard it as a great use case as I would love to show non-capsuleer friends what can I fly.

UI and UX ideas:

• The main screen displays the whole ISIS tree for any race.
• A menu with the faction icons to the left does the same thing as the faction palette in the game. Note that if the app is linked with an API, the app will by default display the ship tree where the character's current ship can be found. If the card is larger than the screen, that ship should be as close to the centre of the screen as possible.
• A menu to the right gives the user the ability to filter the tree to only display ship hulls of a certain category, e.g. battlecruisers, industrials, etc.
• Tapping on a ship will display its model to the left of the screen while the right side gives a quick summary like the icons displayed when hovering the mouse pointer over a ship icon in the IG ISIS.
• Swiping this card to the left will expand the view and display further details in a fashion similar to the attributes, fitting, requirements and mastery tabs of the IG info card.
• Swiping this card to the right will return to the main card.
• Zooming in on the ship preview will display a full 3D model of the ship with the racial nebula in the background. The nebula may be replaced by a view from the rear-camera of the device when the user presses a button or performs a gesture. (Who'd not take a picture of an Avatar about to DD the neighbour's car parked in one's spot? )
• The general colour palette should be as close as the colour palette used in-game.
• 3D capability in the ship preview may be disabled on older, or more limited, devices.