FAB App project

Building an app with screens that show:

A welcome to the FAB, the Arts Faculty, and advice on using the building.
A wayfinding tool - tell it the space you seek and it will give you easy-to-follow directions.
Enable deep linking, so for example an event organiser can add a hperlink to QR code to the instructions they give to attendees, and clicking on the link opens the app, provides directions, and helps the user to get to the event location.
A list of upcoming events that are open to students, staff, and the public.
A list of the latest podcasts, videos, articles from Arts Faculty staff and students (using the FABggretatorLink opens in a new window).

We hope to have this live for Welcome Week 2026.

Substack articles about this project.Link opens in a new window

May 1st 2026

The project has been created using the Flutter software development kit (SDK) from Google, and the Dart programming language. Development set up for iPhone and Android.

The initial design and workflows have been created and demonstrated in the Android and iPhone simulators, and on a physical iPhone. Demo events are loaded as a JSON feed from this calendarLink opens in a new window. We will need to improve the current workflow for getting events into the Faculty central calendar.

Start up screen and main menu

Events list on iPhone and Android

Next steps

Create the social media content aggregator as a separate web service, and integrate that into the app. See the FABggregator projectLink opens in a new window.

Design a wayfinding system for generating usable directions for getting to spaces in the FAB. We have tested voice integration. Flutter provides a plugin that we can use for this. Users can type or speak a location, and it will be recognised by the app. This has been initiated as a separate projectLink opens in a new window.

Articles about this project.Link opens in a new window

Feedback and inquiries to Robert O'Toole.

Want to join the project? Ask Robert.