HQ App in the Future?

[RABohms]

As a first step, I'd love to see just the articles in an app. Understand it's more complex for some of the other data/tool content.

But yeah, I understand some of the challenges. I just want to be able to more easily read the articles from my phone. So
Etching as simple as bleacher report app or other similar.

I agree. I read the articles on my phone during my commute to and from work so reading the articles would be my primary purpose for using the app. I don't think I would be trying to analyze the stats and projections using the app.

[Sleehrat]

As a first step, I'd love to see just the articles in an app. Understand it's more complex for some of the other data/tool content.

But yeah, I understand some of the challenges. I just want to be able to more easily read the articles from my phone. So
Etching as simple as bleacher report app or other similar.

[RAY@HQ]

It's something we've (obviously) shied away from so far, but we're certainly keeping an eye on it. Current thoughts are basically as follows, in no particular order:

- making our data/tools into an app is going to be challenging
- we could more easily make a lightweight app that allows subscribers to read our articles via an app, but obviously that's less valuable than a fully-enabled app.
- the above issues are particularly painful on a phone, and less so on a tablet... but the full-blown site works pretty well on a tablet, and one of our design focuses in the near term is to keep improving the tablet experience on the full site.
- as a longer-term vision, I think the answer that's preferable to an app is to a fully-responsive web site... ie one that automatically adjusts its layout based on the type of device you're accessing it from. That's something our USAT techies have done successfully on a number of other sites, that I'm interested in exploring for us.

Anyway, these are just my current thoughts... always subject to change. If you do a search, you'll probably find me giving slightly different answers to this question previously.

[Sleehrat]

Apologies if this has been asked and answered, but are there any plans to roll out a Baseball HQ App? I know we can get to Message boards via Tapatalk(which is great), but I'd love to access site content via App. And as we shift more toward mobile apps and less to desktop/laptops, it feels like it makes sense to invest in Apps