Major Additions - iPhone / Android / webOS / WP7 / BlackBerry for vB - Tapatalk

** Over 23000 forums installed!!**


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What is Tapatalk?

Tapatalk is a vBulletin mod that allows your users to browse your forum using a native mobile application. Tapatalk supports iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, webOS and Windows Phone 7. It provides super-fast access to your forum and allows your members to participate more in your forum while on the go.

Why Tapatalk?

• Only one MOD installation to support all mobile devices including iPhone, Android, WebOS, Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry.
• Forum API - build your own app or server-side integration with well-documented Tapatalk API, enjoy quality forum app from third-party developers, beyond what Tapatalk internal team can offer.
• Well-tested. This MOD has been installed in over 23000 forums, including some of the very large forums with 2 million members with over 10,000 online users. This app is designed to scale
• Tapatalk allows you to put your sponsored banner into the app so you don't lose potential revenue **NEW**
• Analytics support - you get too see how many users are accessing your forum from the Tapatalk app

Installation Instruction:

Installation is easy. It does not change any of your forum settings or overwrite any
of your existing forum code and configuration. Simply follow the procedure below:

Step 1

Create yourself an account at http://www.tapatalk.com/plugin.php. Once you have logged in
to the website, you can download the largest version. If you are not sure you are
using the latest version. Download a new one from
http://www.tapatalk.com/download.php. You can follow the rest of the instruction
from tapatalk.com onward if you want. Otherwise read on:

Step 2

Upload the zip package at the root of your forum system.
Unzip the package. You should see a directory called "mobiquo" inside your forum
system root directory. For example, if your forum URL is http://www.mysite.com/forum,
it should be placed at http://www.mysite.com/forum/mobiquo/.


Step 3

Login to Administration Control Panel (admincp) in your server.
Choose "Style Manager" under "Styles and Templates".
Choose "Edit Template" in your current template.
Click "Edit" in your current template
Choose "headinclude" in the list, click "Edit"
At the bottom of the editor, insert the following line:
<script type="text/javascript" src="mobiquo/tapatalkdetect.js"></script>
Click "Save".


Step 4

Visit http://www.tapatalk.com/addforum.php to enter your forum URL and upload you forum
logo there. It will allow end-user to find his way to your forum using the Tapatalk
app.

Step 5

Visit http://www.tapatalk.com/manageforum.php to confirm the setup so you can select
whether you want to publish your site to the public listing or you want to set it up
so it is complete private to other end users.

Screenshots:

Showing New and Unread Thread with Avatar and Number of reply:


Facebook Integration: Gather more members from Facebook by letting users publish topics to their Facebook feed.


Images are thread are converted to thumbnail and allow full-screen viewing


Ability to see Who's Online and what they are doing:


Ability to search by topics and posts:


Ability to place banners within the app:


Ability to upload images directly from Android and iPhone!:


Ability to view how Tapatalk is used via our Analytics console

[yellowpeter]

Hi all,

Looks like the Blackberry version is in full stream - we have finished the majority of the backend work and is now tweaking the UI to make it pretty and usable. Attached is a quick sneak of what it is like running in the ugly emulator.

At least we are assure you this won't be long until it is available. Like what we had delivered in Nokia and Android app a month ago.

Cheers!

[joshskeety]

My Android users are saying that when they use this to go to the forum it says..

"target host must not be null, or set in parameters"

Any ideas?

[imported_silkroad]

Where is the Nokia app for symbian os?

[yellowpeter]

Originally Posted by joshskeety

My Android users are saying that when they use this to go to the forum it says..

"target host must not be null, or set in parameters"

Any ideas?

Hey which forum is it and we will take a look :up:

[yellowpeter]

Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

Where is the Nokia app for symbian os?

This is currently taken down in preparation of Ovi Store launch, if you interested to have a copy please PM me and I will work it out. Thanks!

[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by yellowpeter

This is currently taken down in preparation of Ovi Store launch, if you interested to have a copy please PM me and I will work it out. Thanks!

I use Ovi and Ovi Store and it is completely unreliable. Please do not force members to use Ovi for this product. If that is the case, I will pass, mainly because Ovi is so bad... and I am a long time Nokia smart phone user with full-time GPRS/Edge coverage.

[yellowpeter]

Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

I use Ovi and Ovi Store and it is completely unreliable. Please do not force members to use Ovi for this product. If that is the case, I will pass, mainly because Ovi is so bad... and I am a long time Nokia smart phone user with full-time GPRS/Edge coverage.

What would you recommend the way to distribute the app other than just put the file online? We would need a update mechanism to push updates to users.

[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by yellowpeter

What would you recommend the way to distribute the app other than just put the file online? We would need a update mechanism to push updates to users.

You don't need that "update mechanism"....

I run many Nokia apps and none have an auto update "push" mechanism. This includes Opera Mini, Calcium (Calculator), PuTTY (for SSH logins), Nokia Email, Gmail, Bolt, etc.

If Google can live without auto Gmail push and if Opera can live without automatic Gmail push, then you can too.

I think the issue for you is not "push/update" but how to create an economic business model and you are planning to use Ovi to collect revenue. Nothing wrong with that, but I don't think you will find much success because ovi "sucks", for a lack of a more technical and polite term, and trying to replicate the Apple iTunes/iStore model with Ovi has not been successful for Nokia because ovi is so bad.

I get the feeling you are wrapping an underlying economic interest in the guise of a technical requirement. However, if you look at most Nokia Symbian Apps from the "big boys" most give away for free (Opera, Gmail, etc.)

How about PM me a copy and I'll install and comment back to you on the commercial viability of the app on Nokia? I use both an E61 and E63, but mostly E63 these days since it is smaller, newer, and nicer, yadda, yadda, yadda.

[yellowpeter]

simply put we are not the big guys like Gmail and Opera who has a massive engineering team to get things right, if you look at our iPhone release cycle we have pushed out over 9 updates in less than six months, if you are here long enough our iPhone 1.0 release doesn't even have reply function! This MOD is based on constant feedback from users to get the way it is today. I feel that not everyone is power user - and that's why I am consulting user like you to provide feedback.

I don't see how it ties to commercial interest? We are well-informed in the mobile app space and it's silly to spend any effort in Nokia if making money is the reason - we spent hundreds (if not thousands) of hours in making this app running on Nokia, just because we know we can and we want to balance out the iPhone dominance.

Oh by the way I have a Nokia 5530 and I must say I love it. You can't beat the value of this little machine although the S60 UI drives you nut everyday

[jamsiemoe]

Hi,

Sorry if this question has already been asked. I am thinking of installing this mod onto my forum. The thing is that my forum is a small private forum for recovering alcoholics and drug users and therefore would not like to have it listed on any directory. Is there anyway to use tapatalk without being listed?