As we are living in an increasingly mobile-focused world, how can CiviCRM can be integrated with mobile and leverage features native to mobile? During the recent CiviCRM Sprint in Colorado, a group of us got together to discuss what currently exists, what's in the works and new features that would be helpful to include in the future. 

We started off by discussing CiviMobile, a web app developed with the jQuery Mobile framework by Peter McAndrew in December 2011.  The web app focuses on three main areas: Events, Contacts and Surveys. Click here to see some screenshots included in a previous blog post. CiviMobile currently works with CiviCRM 4.3, but the core team is working on the new release that will work with CiviCRM 4.6.

Here's the feedback and requirements we worked on as a result of the discussion we had during the sprint. You can share what you are working on and what you would like to be included in the future on the Wiki page. There is also a section for CiviMobile in the Forums, and you can share your question in Stack Exchange. 

The purpose of this wiki page is to gather use cases and requirements for improvements to CiviMobile.  Please take a look at what the current features available in CiviMobile, share use cases for how you would like to use CiviMobile, and share details for specific requirements. You can also include examples of implementations in other CRM tools to help us think about different use case scenarios, good ideas to consider and things to avoid. 

Feedback

Parvez Saleh, Veda Consulting
Veda Consulting is currently developing native mobile apps to allow charities to engage with their constituents. These apps will allow push notifications to be sent to the constituents as well as allowing them to register onto events. We’ll be sharing our experience and customer feedback at CiviCon London 2015.

Guy Iaccarino, Greenleaf Advancement
Our clients would like to be able to easily access their CiviCRM data using a mobile app. For example, it would be helpful to be able look up people in CiviCRM on your phone before meeting with them, so you have a better context how the person is engaging with your organization.

Requirements

Joe Murray, JMA Consulting
1. Find contacts and map them to default native mapping software so that user can see where they are relative to each other, then click on one to get route from present location and go into navigate mode.
2. Find contact, view all activities including notes in preparation for meeting with them.
3. Find contact, create an activity including standard fields and automatically attach photos from native camera app to the activity before saving.
4. Specify search and result fields on profile configured for searching for the above use cases.
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At Ginkgo Street Labs, we are developing cross-platform mobile apps for nonprofits, but haven't created a mobile app that works with CiviCRM yet. This is an exciting new frontier for the CiviCRM community. We look forward to collaoborating with others in the community around CiviCRM-mobile integration.

Share your thoughts on the future of CiviCRM & Mobile by commenting below or adding your ideas to the wiki.