I’m pretty proud of this. Working on the app with the City of Fishers’ support, we’ve brought home a Mira Honorable Mention. After less than a year, we have thousands of users and two six arrests, with hundreds of incidents reported by Fishers residents. Pretty cool. Our team deserves it for all their hard work! Special thanks to Ed Gebhart, Mayor Scott Fadness, Chiefs Mitch Thompson and George Kehl, and the officers and citizens who continue to provide feedback to make this service even better for our community. 🙂
IBJ Article: https://www.techpoint.org/2017/04/mira-awards-winners-2017/
A little technical detail on the app, for those who are interested:
Platform: Xamarin with Xamarin.Forms, so we only had to write it once to deploy to iOS and Android. Yes, it really works.
Development Window: 18 months. Includes test runs with officers and the community.
Language: C#.
Time to Deploy to Google Play Store: Less than 15 minutes.
Time to Deploy to Approve Apple Developer Account: 3 months. They wouldn’t believe we were the City. Even with a phone call from the Mayor. That was an experience!
Time to Approve App, once we were in: 3 days. They were pretty cool after we were approved. 🙂
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