mhart29
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Post by mhart29 on Mar 7, 2010 23:59:34 GMT -5
I don't quite know how to program or if we are able to do this but we should make an app for this forum. Alot of people have iPods and that stuff so mabey we could make an app for this. It may not work but it is an idea.
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Post by Ryan on Mar 8, 2010 13:52:31 GMT -5
iPhone apps are expensive to host and difficult to program (they require not only great skill at Mac Programming but also the specific form of app programing, and to publish it and have it available costs a good bit of money if I remember correctly). Though if it was an option I would totally chip in to get one haha. Also if we make an iPod/iPhone app, it would only be fair to BlackBerry users and Droid users to have an app for their phones/mobile devices. I don't know anything about programming for those though. It would be an interesting project and if I could have a SPOTM app on my phone I would almost always be on . Any good programmers out there? I'm pretty useless at programming.
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Post by fredrik on Mar 8, 2010 14:14:57 GMT -5
My idea (which I've thought about before) is to make like a web app designed specifically for iPhones (which would also work with iPod touches). We could then port it to other devices too by simply removing all the iPhone-specific functions, and replacing them with more generally supported code.
Creating web apps for the iPhone is also generally much simpler than making a whole stand-alone app, while still keeping much of the functionality of normal apps (like multi-touch and gesture events, that are available in JavaScript on Safari for the iPhone). So I don't think this would be so hard if we could a) get the data on from the forum and wiki and b) process them, either on the server side (using PHP) or client side (using JavaScript).
And it's also free to develop such an app (as opposed to the $99 fee for the iPhone developer program).
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Post by Ryan on Mar 8, 2010 16:33:02 GMT -5
Ahh, a mobile app would work really well, I hadn't thought of that before, if anyone has access to or knows where to find relevant information I'll be happy to set up a wiki page that organizes it all and we can discuss details as far as mobile functionality and a working code set there. and @fred, I thought that in order to get an app posted to the AppStore (and I can't think of (m)any other ways to distribute to such a large group such as ourselves) that you had to pay an annual fee of some sort. I could be wrong - just unsure, clarity on this issue would rock so if anyone knows the answer, please enlighten me.
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Post by fredrik on Mar 8, 2010 16:42:46 GMT -5
Okay, to clarify, to use any iPhone app you've developed on a real iPhone or iPod touch, you'll have to sign it with a certificate from Apple or something like that. This costs that annual fee of $99, and you can then choose to submit the app to the app store, or to just distribute it to up to 100 devices (I think) outside the app store. You can find much information about developing both iPhone apps and web apps at developer.apple.com/By the way, another reason to use web apps over usual apps are that you do not need Mac to develop them, and it would therefore enable people like me (who use Windows or Linux) to participate in coding the app itself.
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Post by Camoon on Mar 8, 2010 16:58:34 GMT -5
How about a facebook app? Maybe we can also integrate the forums into it.
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Post by fredrik on Mar 8, 2010 17:05:53 GMT -5
Well, that would be neat too, but I think like very focusing more on a mobile app right here (but you could make a new thread for it). Facebook apps aren't very mobile, you know. But sure, a Facebook app would be cool
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mhart29
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Post by mhart29 on Mar 8, 2010 20:26:42 GMT -5
I think this is going well if we have anyone who can program this sound like it just might work. The facebook app would be nice but it wouldn't be much different than openning a new tab. As for the iPod stuff I don't know how many people have mac's that know how to program. Mabey my cousin will let me use hers I would just have to make sure I learn how to program apps and not brake the Mac.
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Post by fredrik on Mar 9, 2010 9:16:08 GMT -5
Well, the main reason why I do want to develop a web app instead of an App Store app is exactly because not that many people uses Mac (most use Windows), and even fewer knows iPhone programming using it.
But, if we could get a few people that already knows this and has a Mac, sure, we could do this, although I wouldn't recommend it otherwise.
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Post by mhart29 on Mar 9, 2010 20:32:45 GMT -5
Well I could learn it doesn't need to be made soon we are still forming SPOTM so we have some time before we do anything with the app store type apps.
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Post by cklvlogs on Mar 10, 2010 1:13:10 GMT -5
We still have plenty of time to develop this app
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Post by Jake on Mar 11, 2010 15:55:16 GMT -5
I have a friend who knows quite a lot about making iPhone apps, so if we get a basis for the idea then he'd definitely be happy to do it for nothing. He's got the software and the time, so as I said, he'll do it if we tell him what to do.
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Post by fredrik on Mar 11, 2010 16:47:37 GMT -5
I have a friend who knows quite a lot about making iPhone apps, so if we get a basis for the idea then he'd definitely be happy to do it for nothing. He's got the software and the time, so as I said, he'll do it if we tell him what to do. Well, that'd be great! But although I don't think the problem would be to create the app itself, it would be hard to for instance get the forums and posts from the forums and present them in the app (at least without some form of an API).
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Post by Jake on Mar 11, 2010 17:02:44 GMT -5
I guess the best way to present updates on the forum would be by RSS feeds - although I'm not sure if this forum supports that. And I spoke to my friend and he thinks he'll be able to do it!
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Post by hey light on Mar 11, 2010 17:19:31 GMT -5
I guess the best way to present updates on the forum would be by RSS feeds - although I'm not sure if this forum supports that. And I spoke to my friend and he thinks he'll be able to do it! That's great! And once we're done with the iPhone app, we should make versions for Android and Windows Mobile, too. Maybe we should have Twitter, Dailybooth, and Facebook updates from Pogotribe members, the latest videos from dan and the tribe, latest forum posts, and project updates. And maybe the option to make and read posts on SPOTM. Maybe we should have a sort of thing where people who are starting or participating in project to update a sort of database that could be accessed by people on the forum of using the apps. We would probably have to use a lot of APIs though.
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Post by mhart29 on Mar 11, 2010 21:24:42 GMT -5
Wow and i thought this would go nowhere. This is great. Right now we just need some ideas for what to be on it. We are open for suggestons.
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Post by Jake on Mar 12, 2010 2:11:07 GMT -5
Okay - well I'll speak to him about all this and try and work out if he'd be able to do Dailybooth/Facebook/Twitter/Facebook and all that - I'm sure that's all easy because I've seen him do that before. We'll have to work out the best way to get forum updates though - and how to sort through them for the good ones? I quite like having the idea of being able to update a database for it!
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Post by fredrik on Mar 12, 2010 9:58:12 GMT -5
1) RSS feeds can be made by the proboards crew - I have already requested for this on the forum. I think that currently we do not need any advanced functionality for reading each forum and posting posts and such, but that would be a neat feature we could have later on. Instead, the posts could just open in Safari/a built-in version of Safari (in the app), because Safari by itself is a great browser and supports the forum. 2) Dailybooth, Facebook and Twitter updates should be able to be customized from the server-side, so that we could add all pogotribians/they could add themselves, and the app would automatically update. 3) If we are not making web apps, we should not even start thinking about making apps for other platforms yet. Currently, I don't think there's that big of a demand for an app on other platforms than the iPhone/iPod touch.
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Post by Jake on Mar 12, 2010 10:30:53 GMT -5
One idea that my friend doing the app came up with would be to make a blog and get a group of people to update it every few days with the latest news concerning the tribe. This way the app won't have a constant load of updates from the forum - much of which wouldn't be vitally important news. This blog would then be put into the app so that only the most important information from the forum is reached. Then on top of this there could be the twitter, dailybooth etc.
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Post by fredrik on Mar 12, 2010 10:52:12 GMT -5
That would actually be a great idea. I've set up a blog for this purpose now, it's pogotribe.wordpress.com/Like, what I think we could do is to get maybe 5-8 editors that regularly update the blog with important stuff from the forum - like interesting threads and stuff. Anyone interested in becoming an editor could just PM me with their email address - any anyone else could then just PM one of those editors if they wanted to have something posted there.
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