Major Additions - BlackBerry / Android / iPhone app for vBulletin - 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 and BlackBerry . 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 and BlackBerry
• 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

Download Tapatalk mobile app


** Beta Released!! Free BlackBerry app! Download here.
** Andriod version is available at Android Market! - ** 4 stars review - Top 3 Social Android app! Download now and see why we are the best forum 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.

Step 6

Download the free Tapatalk iPhone app from the app store
(http://itunes.com/app/tapatalkro) to confirm it is indeed working.


Screenshots:

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


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 MPDev

Does this work with vB3.8?

Yes - check out this thread:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...light=tapatalk

[BadgerDog]

Sorry, but I must be missing something ...

I downloaded the server side file to install under my vBulletin installation, but I can't find any instructions as to what files to upload where?

Do I just upload the entire subdirectory called "mobiquo-1" to the root of my vBulletin directory?

Thanks ..

Regards,
Badger

[BadgerDog]

Never mind my question above ...

I deleted the download. Just read on your site that it doesn't support 3.68 which is what we're running and with over 10,000 members and a lot of mods running just fine, we're have no intention of upgrading to 3.8.

Our members use a "mobile skin" and seem to be happy with it.

Too bad, as I'm even an iPod user and I was looking forward to that option ...

Thanks anyway .....

Regards,
Badger

[yellowpeter]

Yah too bad it doesn't support 3.6.x - are you looking into upgrading it to 4.0 in near future? or not going to upgrade at all?

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by yellowpeter

Yah too bad it doesn't support 3.6.x - are you looking into upgrading it to 4.0 in near future? or not going to upgrade at all?

No reason to upgrade ....

We have 10,000+ happy members with the current nicely modded vBulletin meeting their needs, so change for the sake of change isn't necessary. :up:

Regards,
Badger

[yellowpeter]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

No reason to upgrade ....

We have 10,000+ happy members with the current nicely modded vBulletin meeting their needs, so change for the sake of change isn't necessary. :up:

Regards,
Badger

I see how you feel. If I remember correctly you are the forth one requesting 3.6.x support. We might look into it if time permits

[yellowpeter]

We have submitted the latest iPhone app version 1.4 to Apple few days ago with "Edit" function where you can open you post in edit mode and save the change on the fly.. I hope you guys will like it. In addition we have reworked the pagination and full screen images display logic to make it more stable and usable.

I will let you guys know as soon as it is approved.

Make sure you upgrade your plugin (MOD) to version 1.1 to take advantage the new feature.. Cheers.

[yellowpeter]

Hi all,

Today we received a letter from Apple that our app is rejected because of use of "Private API" (read this if you interested to know more: http://groups.google.com/group/three...5046771539d139) - We are going to submit a new app later tonight and keep our finger crosses.

On a bright side it allows us to include a lot more fixes and tweaks to improve the iPhone app, namely:

- better pagination support - the pagination bar will be scrollable up-and-down with the thread view to allow more viewing space, and added "Previous Page" and "Next Page" button at the bottom.
- less crashes - we expect the update will be more (much more) stable than 1.3
- better full screen images support - able to view more images where 1.3 had problem to view
- Edit Post - you can edit the post that you had previously submitted
- "New Posts" - a special place where it shows the latest unread posts. Also topic will be highlighted with blue-dot to indicate unread topics

[yellowpeter]

Just a head's up that we have released a Nokia app that works the same fashion as the iPhone and you can download it here or at our website. See the MOD details for installation instruction. :up:

[yellowpeter]

We have managed to release a "Lite" version of iPhone app "Tapatalk RO" - please download the app at http://itunes.com/app/tapatalkro