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

** Over 23000 forums installed!!**


TipB 5 Stars Review: http://www.tipb.com/2010/09/28/tapat...ne-app-review/

YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWnkYF72nLE


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]

Originally Posted by z0diac

The URL was linked a number of times in this thread. I killed the thread about a week ago. It was just a 320x240 picture, shot out the window looking down the street, with some trees on either side and a road in the middle.

If you really need an example to correct it , just let me know and I'll go re-do it all. (but please, only if it's going to be fixed soon. 'No use me doing all that if someone is just going to look at it and say 'hm, yah.. it's a 320 wide by 240 tall image').

Cool we are looking into it at the moment.

[yellowpeter]

Originally Posted by Alteran Ancient

I'd also like to see something like this for the Google Android OS. The T-Mobile G1 uses this, the HTC Magic uses it, and many other handset manufacturers are planning to use the platform too.

This post was made on Mar 2009...

Wow today we're reviewing some of the old posts of this thread.. The Android app was first requested in March 2009 and we released the app 9 months after. Just want to share another news that the Tapatalk for Android app has reached to Top 5 Social app in Android Market. THANK YOU GUYS to make this happen!!!

[yellowpeter]

Just rolled out another Android app with ability to disable auto-rotation. Now I know you guys love reading in bed

[z0diac]

Originally Posted by yellowpeter

Just rolled out another Android app with ability to disable auto-rotation. Now I know you guys love reading in bed

An even BETTER idea, for those of us who've paid for Tapatalk, is the ability to attach USABLE pictures to msgs. 320x240 is a thumbnail.

Please please... instead of spending time making new apps, please make your current ones usable for the users who've paid for it!

I haven't used Tapatalk since I installed it. I bought it SOLELY so I could send pictures to my forum while out on the road. I know it was only 3-4 bucks, but that's 3-4 bucks wasted for me.

It's nice that the images have gone from 320x240 to 640x480, but we really need some options here. 1024x768 *minimum* , especially for a 5MP image. 1280 wide would be perfect.

As much as I appreciate the size going up to 640x480, that's still not a practical image size when screens are now 1920x1080 wide (so a 640x480 picture only uses 1/7th of the screen size). If the coders were going to change it so made bigger images than the original 320x240, why would they go up to only 640x480? If they're going to spend some time to make it better, why not make it right?

1024 or 1280 wide PLEASE!

[yellowpeter]

Regarding the image upload quality - the issue here is the memory of older device such as G1 with extremely limited memory, again we will look into what we can do and perhaps to set different image quality with different device model etc.

[z0diac]

Originally Posted by yellowpeter

Regarding the image upload quality - the issue here is the memory of older device such as G1 with extremely limited memory, again we will look into what we can do and perhaps to set different image quality with different device model etc.

??? My Motorola Milestone is a fairly new device (512MB on-board memory, 16GB microSD memory)

[yellowpeter]

We have updated the Android app with improved stability and performance, along with few minor UI enhancement. Now you can see the user avatar in the topic listing

[yellowpeter]

Just released the updated iPhone app with ability to rotate the screen to landscape mode, and among many fixes and UI enhancement.




In next vBulletin plugin update you will even be able to see what's your members are doing online, all inside the app

[PixelFx]

Sweet, thanks for the hard work on this !

[yellowpeter]

Originally Posted by PixelFx

Sweet, thanks for the hard work on this !

Glad u guys like it...