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

[vbreal]

Originally Posted by yellowpeter

Well yes we get control of where it is released. Just that we feel it is not ready for non-U.S. region for this version that's why we postponed it. We promise the new version pending on apple approval is a much better version performance and stability wise.

Having that said it shouldn't stop you to download the current version as upgrade is free and done automatically by iPhone.

the new version is so much faster and more stable. i didn't realize how much it had improved until i tried the version in the app store for a day just to see how different they were. had to add the adhoc version back ASAP. hahaha

[yellowpeter]

The version submitted to app store is 1.2 which contains bug fixes and major speed improvement.

The development team is working on the 1.3 version that *hopefully* can finish Private Messaging on time.

Our goal is to evetually get to the Push Notification where Private Message / Subscribed Topics push to your iPhone as soon as it is updated. But this will need more testing as it involves much more complicated setup and additional stress to our server.

[yellowpeter]

We have released the vb MOD 0.9.12 as a on-going minor update. Here are some of the highlights:

- Compatible to more plugins - if you have previously disabled some plugins to make it work with Tapatalk, you can try re-enable it and see if this release help.
- Minor character encoding fixes

Again the latest discussion can be found at http://www.tapatalk.com/forum

[10 Gauge]

This is great! Glad it finally got released. I have it installed server side and the app on my iPhone now.

Some things I would like to see in future versions....

-PM's (ur working on this one I have heard)
-Who's Online
-Member Profile Information
-Emoticon Support (both for viewing and posting)
-Post Editing

So far so good though, I love it! I am still finding that it's faster to surf my forum via Safari through the use of WiForums WAP software, WiFo also supports the bullet points noted above.

Once it's a bit faster and more feature rich I am sure it will be my weapon of choice!

[yellowpeter]

Glad you like it 10 Gauge!

For the speed issue you will see significant improvement in next version that is optimized for iPhone 3.0 OS!

As for Private Messaging it is in development and we feel confident that it will be in the release after. I expect later this month.

[mangel.ajo]

Tagged, and waiting for it to be available at the spanish store :-)

[AndyCooper]

Please please make this available on the UK app store as well! Be great for my own motoring forum.

Andy

[PixelFx]

Originally Posted by AndyCooper

Please please make this available on the UK app store as well! Be great for my own motoring forum.

Andy

I think as far as were its available is somewhat dependent on apple, I'm hoping for Canada soon as I have a lot of vbulletin clients locally that would love this as well.

[IcheeWaWa]

I installed this mod on my site tonight, signed up and registered on your site to get listed and bought the app.

I can browse my forums fine, but get:

Failed To Reply Topic

You don't have permission to reply to this thread

When I tried to reply to an existing thread.

[yellowpeter]

Hi ichewawa,

Which forum are you associated with? We can check to see if there is any problem with the installation.