Tapatalk?

[Trent B]

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

[MattC9]

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

[Trent B]

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

[Mike8519]

Yes, this would be a fantastic addition

[O'Sancheski]

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.

[Trent B]

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.

[Mike Martus]

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.

[Stephen Kowski]

Originally Posted by Mike Martus

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.

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

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Stephen Kowski

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

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.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

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.

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

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

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

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

[innoying]

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/

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

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

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

[Joe Ross]

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.

[Trent B]

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.