iLabs - Science Lab Report Creation
(with Cloud Support)

Welcome to iLabs, the Android app that helps you create Science Lab Reports. iLabs lets you create and organize notes during your science lab and to have all the information you need for a particular lab at your disposal. Once you are done with your lab notes and have recorded all your data, including any pictures you took, you can send the data to yourself so you can edit it on your desktop (most conveniently) and turn it into the perfect lab report for submission to your science instructor. iLabs is optimized for Tablets and requires Android 3.1 or higher. It works fine on ICS phones with Android 4.

Note that any content for iLabs is created and maintained separately from this app by instructors for particular courses. The quality of that content may vary and you need to contact the content provider if you have questions about particular labs. You or your instructor could easily add their own content, so that other students can take full advantage of the program for their own class.

If you have any questions, please check out our online help. If you still have questions, please contact 'Bert Wachsmuth' at "wachsmut@shu.edu". If you like the program, please rate it on the Android marketplace and/or provide some detailed feedback to the developer. If you are an instructor interested in obtaining a customized version of iLabs for your own institution, or you want to create (publically available or private) content for the app, please send email to "wachsmut@shu.edu".

Downloading iLabs

• To download the latest stable version, please download iLabs from the Android market. Search for "SHU iLabs" or click here for a direct link. This is the best and most stable version to try, and is the recommended version. It is customized for Seton Hall University (the functionally equivalent generic version of iLabs is available here).
   
  
• To download the most current beta version of iLabs intended for beta testers via "side-loading" only, download the iLabs.apk file here (if you do not know what "side-loading" means, you might want to stick with the latest stable version from the market). Here is a reminder on how to side load an app:
  
  
  • To experiment with the beta version, please uninstall any previous versions of iLabs (you will loose any settings you created and possibly any reports not yet submitted). If you have any trouble with the latest version, please make sure to first uninstall any previous version.
  • Click on the above link to download the apk file (you can either do that from your Android browser, or from your desktop as long as you move the apk file to your Android device somehow)
  • Tap or double-tap the downloaded apk file on your Android device to install the latest version of iLabs.

Information

The app is developed by Bert G. Wachsmuth and is supported by the Teaching Learning, and Technology Center at Seton Hall University. If you are an instructor and are interested in providing your own lab content, please contact Bert Wachsmuth for details. You may also obtain a version of iLab customized for your institution. For example, the "SHU iLabs" app is a customized version of "iLabs" for Seton Hall University. Please contact Bert G. Wachsmuth for details.

iLabs requires the following permissions:

• Full Internet access to load and submit labs and reports
• Permission to modify SD card to store your reports until they are submitted and deleted
• Modify hardware to take pictures with your phones's camera and embed them in a report

iLabs is free software and the source code can be made available upon request. There maybe a charge for creating customized versions for particular institutions if you are interested. Again, please contact Bert G. Wachsmuth for any details you might be interested in.

History

• 1.3 (BETA)
  • Fixed bug with in-app video player that caused force close on Android 3.1 (only)
• 1.2
  • Changed editing tasks so that only the data part can be edited (for text) and only the title part can
    edited for pictures.
  • Split off the SHU iLabs version for SHU branding
• 1.1
  • Added in-app video player for non-Youtube videos (plays full-screen and does not show 'related' videos)
    (you must link directly to MP4, 3GP, or WMV videos, a standard YouTube link will bring up the Youtube app)
  • Changed quizzes to use radio buttons for single-answer questions and check boxes for multi-answer ones.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed you to delete any item, now you can only delete text and picture items in the report data.
  • Fixed some typos
• 1.0 (Jan 2012)
  • Official release as "iLabs HD"
  • Added online help file and changed all remote references to www.mathcs.org/iLabs
  • Changed all dialogs to make sure they get the best OS look, either Android 3 or 4 or whatever future OS brings
  • Enabled proper use of RETURN in report text items
  • Added new report items after the currently selected one, not before
  • Streamlined code to use anonymous classes as dialog listeners instead of named inner classes
  • Removed the status line
  • Various bug fixes
• 0.9.1 (Dec 2011)
  • Added support for <email> and <instructor> tags in lab list XML file
  • Various bug fixes
• 0.9 (Nov 2011)
  • Initial release to beta testers