# Planning Android Client development **URL:** \ **Category:** Implementing\ **Created:** [September 9, 2016, 10:47am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/planning-android-client-development/7943 "2016-09-09T10:47:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![darius](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/darius/32/8082_2.png) [@darius](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/darius)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/planning-android-client-development/7943/3 "2016-09-09T22:59:27Z")
@gutkowski, I suggest also taking a look at this thread: > [@OpenMRS Mobile Interface](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/openmrs-mobile-interface/6613): > > The OpenHMIS team will be starting on some new work in the upcoming weeks and one of the main focus areas is mobile accessibility of OpenMRS. There seems to be some traction for [Open Web Apps](https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Open+Web+Apps+Module) and also an [existing mobile app](https://github.com/Vincentes/OpenMRS-Mobile) but neither, as far as I can tell, has a lot of activity currently. Perhaps there are other mobile omrs projects ongoing but that is what I found after a short search. As we get started on this requirement we would like to put our efforts behind something that will benefit th… I’d suggest reaching out to @ibewes and also to those listed as the mUzima team, to get a better sense of what their real-world requirements were, and why they chose a different path. I think that what a real-world implementation desires from a mobile tool is quite different from what the OpenMRS reference application does. I’d speculate that the biggest use case is what @mksd alludes to: community health workers who might do home visits and provide care outside of the facility. CommCare is a popular solution to this problem. mUzima and OpenSRP also aim to solve it. Maybe OpenMRS should be integrating with existing tools, rather than replicating work they’ve likely already done. There is a plausible use case (smaller, I think), for viewing patient summaries and charts while walking around a facility, and perhaps leveraging the hardware capabilities of a smartphone to easily add photos, videos, and audio to the patient record. But I would want real implementations to confirm they’d use this before devoting time to this use case. --- _[View the full topic](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/planning-android-client-development/7943)._