People can sometimes have a very personable attachment to their mobile devices. Whether its how its decorated, adorned, configured, it's contact list, even the phone plan, each reflect in someway it's owner. So why not it's applications as well???
With SportsFlash we tried to do this through the use of personal touches like images galleries, and then allowing these galleries to be personalized for that specific user. What this means is that the source of the images used in the image galleries are defined by the user, so that SportsFlash not only keeps them up to date on their fantasy league teams, but also it's customized with the images of their favorite players, or even their vacation shots. Version 1.0 just put into place the personalization classes (i.e. define the source of the images in a class that allows the data structures to be modified). In Version 2.0, we will create interfaces to the personalization classes to allow these data structures (i.e. the array of image sources to revolve), to be defined by the user.
As more ideas like this come to light, the end goal is to make each application of SportsFlash have a personality reflective of their owner, much like the mobile device.
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A possible source of images could be those stored in their Flicker accounts.
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