Mobile App New Feature for 2012 – Friends & Sharing

With the newest update to the Dragon*Con mobile app*, you now have the ability to share your schedule, status, and messages at the convention with your friends or other devices via the “Friends” function. Check it out:

First, make sure your profile information is filled out:

From the Dashboard**:

Tap the Settings button:

To go to “My Profile”:

And fill out the required fields. Don’t forget to Save your info:


Then, return to the Dashboard and:

Tap the Friends button:

And tap the Plus button:

To add a friend by either requesting a friend code or entering a friend code:

Requesting a friend code:

Entering a friend code:

Then share your schedule. Easy-smeasy, right?

Have fun!

*If you need a refresher or are new to the app, check out our mini-tutorial.
**Your Dashboard may look a little different due to cross-platform variances, but the icons and their functions should be essentially the same.

Author of the article

Eugie Foster was the long-time Director/Editor of the Daily Dragon an award-winning writer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and YA/children's lit. She received the 2009 Nebula Award for her novelette, "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast," the 2011 and 2012 Drabblecast People's Choice Award for Best Short Story for "The Wish of the Demon Achtromagk" and "Little Grace of the House of Death," and has been nominated for the Hugo, British Science Fiction, and Washington Science Fiction awards. Her works have been translated into eight languages, and her short fiction collection, Returning My Sister's Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice, has been used as a textbook at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of California-Davis.