PupPal is designed to lower the barrier to publication for people who volunteer to photograph, record and write about dogs at animal shelters. Using their smartphones as both navigational and organizational instruments. A prototype demo is previewable on Heroku at http://protected-savannah-4558.herokuapp.com/dogs. Note: demo may not be as up-to-date as the GitHub repository.

• Find dogs by location, need, priority
• Add dogs
• Upload photos and videos to third party site (forthcoming)

• Ruby on Rails
• jQuery Mobile
• SmugMug (API integration forthcoming)

• PupPal has only been tested on an iPhone 5
• Speed and security improvements are forthcoming
• Usability testing still needs to be implemented

• Administrative login
• SmugMug photo and video upload and preview
• AngularJS implementation
• Google Map directions to sites hosting dogs
• Administrative back end for desktop management
• Database design improvements
• Ajax form loading and refresh
• Email update notifications
• Possible app migration via PhoneGap

This app is very much in its infancy. In the coming months, a more refined and replicable version will be released with a Creative Commons license.