The ISU MyState app has been updated and made faster and smoother for convenience.
The original app started off as a college of engineering development team project and kept growing and evolving, but was never as efficient as it could have been, said Travis Ballstadt, digital media coordinator for the College of Engineering.
During the rebuilding of the app, the college of engineering partnered with Information Technology Services.
Once Apple released iOS7, the College of Engineering development team decided it was the perfect opportunity to take advantage of the new features Apple was offering.
“There are a lot of major changes in this update that the user will hopefully never even notice,” Ballstadt said. “It’s a lot of behind the scenes alterations. Instead of loading a web page and pulling the information from that, we have direct connection to the database.”
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