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 Quantnet

Is your application forum focused?
What about sites that are using vbCMS, Wordpress, vbAdvanced for the portal?

That's one possibility, we will look into it when the basic forum feature developed and stabilized. This MOD is fully compatible with vbAdvanced as we paid special effort to it.

[vaguard]

This has been a very useful and productive mod for my board. While I am still having issues with the ability to display an image to a registered user who browses my forum with the Tapatalk app ( I have opened a support ticket with Tapatalk) the users constantly say how much they love this app and how much fun they have on our board... can't wait to see what they say when they can actually see images as well. Very good mod indeed.

[yellowpeter]

Great you like it. Yah we are looking into the image viewing problem you reported..

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by slinky

You fail to appreciate that Apple wants what is best for us. What the world doesn't need is an app like yours which may make those people who read forums happy. No. What we need is yet another flashlight, fart application, silly game, or other worthless app.

Or the ability to change basic things like your theme or email chime. It's no wonder people jailbreak them.

BTW yellowpeter, looking forward to a version of this to test out with vB4 beta.

[slinky]

Originally Posted by ericgtr

BTW yellowpeter, looking forward to a version of this to test out with vB4 beta.

Please do NOT waste your time with vBulletin 4. It will be many months until it actually functions the way it should and is really "gold" - and most of us won't "upgrade" since it would be a major downgrade without the hacks. As it stands right now, I don't blame a single developer if they don't want to convert anythign to vb4, will charge money to do so, etc. vB 4 doesn't really give any of us anything better than vb 3.8 that I can see right now. Your product is getting better and better with vb3 and it will stay that way for quite a while. Better to do an invision board version first too...

[vbreal]

Originally Posted by Quantnet

Is your application forum focused?
What about sites that are using vbCMS, Wordpress, vbAdvanced for the portal?

what do u mean?

i use vbadvanced and the mod works great. the files go in ur forum's root directory. how do u epect vbadvanced to come into play? im just curious, because im not sure what ur asking. make me feel like im not doing something i could be doing. haha

[Quantnet]

It may work well for you because your site is forum focus i.e all the content is generated from forum threads but many of us, forum is just part of our site, we have our content on other part like wiki, front page, etc
So instead of install separate apps, one for forum, one for browsing the site, I'm looking for something that our users can use for the whole site.
Does it make sense?

[vbreal]

ahh ok thanks for explaining

[yellowpeter]

VB4 support will need to be done eventually

[slinky]

Originally Posted by yellowpeter

VB4 support will need to be done eventually

Key word... EVENTUALLY.

No need to waste time with this like so many other people here who can't wait to upgrade their forum to a buggy beta and find out what they did later.