After getting into a couple of situations where I was asked all about MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) I thought it would be really convenient to have resources on my phone which I could use to tell the MAF story.

I could use the phones browser to look up www.MAF.org, go to Youtube.com and search for some MAF related videos, maybe even use Google Maps to find the nearest MAF base.  But it would all be a bit fiddly and figured that I should try and make an app which makes all that easy.

I hadnt created any phone app before and havent done much programming apart from a handful of VB apps and some website development so it was a little daunting and there was a lot to learn and make sense of.

I found a site called Buzztouch which I could use to create the app that I had in mind to develop and using the features available set out to create “MAF Advocate” and get a tool into the hands of someone with a phone wanting to share what MAF is and does, with someone who wants to hear the story.

MAF Advocate in an Android version is available to download now from the Android Market.  This is the first version and is based on Buzztouch 1.4.  I have since been using Buzztouch 1.5 to develop the app and am working on iPad/iPhone and Android version using the upgraded development options, so more features are already available to me.