RIT for Android

E.

Not good

Only way to order food is through this app, and it has no way of processing credit card payments. I tried 3 different cards and they al failed. The map also doesn’t work, and the UI is bad

I wish the developers would make this open source. There are several things in this app that are frustratingly un-intuitive, especially design-wise. For a school that boasts "Technology" in it's name, this app is pretty disappointing.

You would think that a school which prides itself on having an amazing art program, an amazing tech program, and lots of opportunity to interlink the two would be able to produce a good phone app. This is not a good app. First and foremost, it doesn't work if you aren't on the internet. Since campus doesn't have outdoor WiFi everywhere yet, that means you can't check the bus schedule on your way between classes without turning on cell data about half the time. Second, it is mostly a thin wrapper around web views. Sure, this saves development effort, but the result is worse than just setting up some bookmarks in Safari, because at least Safari looks good. This app's primary color scheme is orange on dark gray. Third, the choice of where to make a custom interface and where to just open the website baffles me. The "Social" module has custom UI to display Tweets and Facebook posts that is much worse than simply showing the websites for Twitter or Facebook. But the dining hours and locations page is served unchanged from the web. The dining hours would benefit tremendously from having a custom UI better suited for a phone, why did they spend that effort on the social tab (which I would be surprised if people actually used)? I do give credit where credit is due, however. The most recent update fixed some buttons in the in-app browser (please just use SafariViewController) that were read by VoiceOver as "KGC_not_localized," so that's a definite improvement. The app's bundle size is also about 10 MB, which is a little less than what I'd expect for a simple utility app like this. I hope that this app continues to improve in the future, especially improvements that result in more UIKit and less HTML. I also hope that the accessibility of the app continues to improve, because RIT does have several students who would benefit from improved VoiceOver support.