Tapatalk?
 

Recently I have been doing a lot of browsing on my android phone. I was curious if there was any interest in the Chief Delphi community or among the administrators to add tapatalk support.

Tapatalk is an Android and iOS app (Blackberry beta and Windows Phone 7 and WebOS support by 3rd parties that use the Tapatalk plugin/API) as well as an installable plugin for your forum which allows users to access the forum in a user and mobile friendly application that is a lot smoother than trying to access via a standard mobile web browser.

I have used tapatalk for several android development forums and I have found it to be a much smoother experience than a web browser offers. With the increasing proliferation of mobile devices I think it is something worth considering.

More about it can be found here.

http://www.tapatalk.com/plugin.php

Just my 2 cents

Trent

Re: Tapatalk?
 

Yes, I would love it. Ill ask one of our mentors who's in the app industry.

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Having posted this reply via my phones web browser, tapatalk on the other forms I frequent is infinitely easier.

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Yes, this would be a fantastic addition

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This looks like it would benefit many people during the competitions as well as build season. The alliance selection results will be so much easier.

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Does anyone know if this is the right medium to propose such an idea? Or is there a better place to go?

During build season it would be helpful (speaking from using it on other forums) it's search works pretty well too.

Only con is users having to buy the app but it ends up being a "price you pay" type of thing.

Re: Tapatalk?
 

We at CD are always open to features that meet the needs of the community.

What are the opinions of other users? Is this an area to be investigated?

Post your thoughts here.

Re: Tapatalk?
 

Considering that less then 0.5% of active users support chiefdelphi with $5, I wonder how many people would pay a third party (tapatalk) $2.99 for the app.

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That is true, however tapatalk does have uses at forums other than chief delphi, additionally 5 dollars via paypal is using a liquid asset (cash) whereas buying a 2.99 app (at least in the case of the Apple App Store) is often paid for through a non liquid asset (iTunes Gift Cards) where people may have the value sitting in their account for months with no other use.

Additionally one is charity in a way while the other is a purchase for personal use.

I am curious what the cons of implementing tapatalk would be? I don't think it really has any effect on the forum's stability or speed, and it lets people willing to spend the money have a nicer user interface.

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Could we all pitch in and get this?

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That would work too, two things to consider is it 200 per app or 200 for android & iphone. Tapatalk also covers blackberry, webOS and windows phone 7

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200 for both

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Whatever works for you guys, I am going to have a different impression than the rest of the community having bought tapatalk already but this thread was mostly just to request some sort of mobile interface.

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Reported.

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Reported

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I use my Droid X to check these forums nearly every day during my lunch break at work. I have zero issues seeing or using all the forum's features. I see no reason to make any changes, nothing seems broken yet.

Regarding the $5 for chiefdelphi: I would pay to get Dr. Joe and other insightful posters back, if it worked that way...

Re: Tapatalk?
 

Either Tapatalk or Forum Runner would be great. I have both and slightly prefer the Forum Runner interface (plus it is cheaper than Tapatalk), but both are much better than using the mobile we sites. One of the main advantages over using the browser are that you can get push notification of PMs and subscribed thread updates.

Both Tapatalk and Forum Runner are free for forum owners to install, and both work with iPhone and Android (Tapatalk also supports Windows Phone 7, WebOS, and BlackBerry).

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Tapatalk is a mobile solution for online communities, empowering discussion forums with moblie access since 2009.It is an app made for Android, iPhone & Nokia that makes viewing and posting on forums 10x easier than on the mobile web browser.

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To me it comes down to a usability thing, tapatalk is a lot more fluid to use than web based forums in my mind on a small screen. It makes better use of the limited screen real estate.

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Is investigation still on going? This would definitely help those that cannot access the forum because of proxies at schools/companies.

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I believe this would require a vBulletin upgrade, which due to the customizations I've made to vBulletin will take more time than I have. I'll look into it again, to see if it's feasible, but I don't know.

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According to Tapatalk's FAQ, it supports vBulletin 3.6 and higher.

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I signed up last night .. will try to implement this evening.

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If you do not get it running the way you want, I would be more than happy to write you guys an app from scratch. Or a mobile website.

I enjoy projects like this. And I think it's about time Chief Delphi starts to endorse the mobile market.

If you guys are interested, send me an email at me@innoying.com

I'll try to remember to check here for a reply. But it's easy to get distracted by other things right now so close to kickoff.

And here's a portfolio of some stuff I've done. It's not everything because I cannot or would not like to publicly release some of my work. http://apps.innoying.com/

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This is installed now .. will put an announcement on the portal soon.

I sent this reply via it. It's working great!

The application looks good on the iPhone/iPad! My addiction to CD is going to get worse now!

Previously, on computer:
Wife: What are you working on?
Me: *Rotate screen*
Wife: *Seeing CD* I should have known.

Now, with my iPhone:
Wife: Who are texting?
Me: *Showing iPhone screen*
Wife: *Shaking her head* I'll talk to you after Championships.

Thanks!

Steve


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Thank you Brandon very much! Where is that donate link again? :)

Re: Tapatalk?
 

Ditto.... If you are paying for the iPhone app, you can certainly afford to subscribe to Chief Delphi :)

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Agreed! $5.00 donation for 6 months of support. $15.00 donation for 2 years of support. That's like a latte at Starbucks!

I just did, and encourage anyone who downloads the app to also show your support for everything Brandon and the CD community do for us by donating to a very worthy cause!

Steve