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

[EricGT]

I really love the idea of this app & plugin, but its performance on my site is problematic. I have a very large, very busy site and the load times of the forums index and individual forum index pages are very, very slow. If a forum has 20,000 or 30,000 threads in it, this system appears to be processing information for all of them before returning any information. On the busier forums, I am getting page load times in Tapatalk of 1 minute or more. I am testing this with the iPhone logged into my local network via Wi-Fi, so this isn't a bandwidth issue. The site loads quite a bit faster in Safari, with all the visual overhead, then these stripped down pages are loading. This system also does not appear to recognize sticky threads and I was disappointed to see that it doesn't interace with the PM system.

I really do think this is the start of a great idea. It will need to mature a bit before I launch it on my site though. Eric

[EricGT]

I just tried installing the plugin that I downloaded here, versus the version I downloaded from the Tapatalk website. Although the Tapatalk app sees the version from here as an older version and not all features are functional in the app, the forum index and thread pages load substantially faster using that version of the plugin. Eric

[yellowpeter]

Eric,

We have fixed this performance issues and submitted to Apple for an update to the app that you have downloaded. If you are interested to see what's the latest give me a PM of your UDID I will send you a Beta version to try out.

Again I expect the update pending from Apple will resolve these performance issues.

[yellowpeter]

Just want to let everyone know that the newer version of Tapatalk is out and is available to world-wide, not just U.S. anymore!

http://itunes.com/app/tapatalk

[appsfinder]

Hi i am a newbi how do i install and config this plugin

[yellowpeter]

it appears you have already installed the plugin and seems to work well?

[Haltech]

How can i go about purchasing bulk licensing for my users who have an iphone?

[yellowpeter]

Haltech,

Check my email!

[yellowpeter]

A small glitch appears in our server breaks user registration - it should be working by now. FYI.

[yellowpeter]

While not much immediate update going on from the iPhone app side, we are pleased to announce the Analytics support of Tapatalk where forum owners can check how well the Tapatalk do in their forum.

The idea is to provide similar dataset as Pinch Media, Admob or any other mobile app analytic provider - and as a forum owner you can check how many people is using the Tapatalk to access your forum, and the time spent on it, etc.

Attached is a sample screenshot of interface you get to see once you login to Forum Owner Area (http://www.tapatalk.com/directory).