Author Archives: dankarran
Announcing the release of the Android app
The Bomb Sight Android app is now available to download for free through the Google Play store. The app gives you access to the interactive map of the aggregate bomb census, showing bombs that fell between 7th October 1940 and … Continue reading
On scaling from 40 visitors a day to 6 every second
When we launched the Bomb Sight website at the end of November, none of the project team had imagined quite how much interest there would be in the project. We were pleased when we saw some people starting to tweet about … Continue reading
Building the Android mobile prototype app for Bomb Sight
Since my last blog post giving a technical overview, the Android app has come along nicely and the second prototype is now being developed further into what will become the version of the app we release. Development of the prototype … Continue reading
Technical overview of the Android mobile application
This blog post will walk through the overview of the technical architecture for the Stepping Into Time Android mobile app and the process we went through to define it. Because of the nature and rapid speed of development of mobile technologies, … Continue reading
Choosing an Augmented Reality library for Android
A key part of the mobile app for the Stepping Into Time project is the augmented reality (AR) feature, giving users a way of exploring the area around them in addition to using map views. This blog post summarises the … Continue reading
Mapping the Blitz Bomb Census: Bomb Sight 