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]

Thanks everyone, the Pilot forums recruitment is now closed due to overwhelming responses so far - the objectives of this pilot is to have a dry-run of the service on real server and we feel that so far with about 30 forums, it came to a point that it has fairly good representation of different kind of forums (and different server configurations) with different languages.

We have just released the Create / Reply functions support to all the pilot forum owners and is awaiting for further inputs from them and we expect to finish the beta in next two weeks.

Thanks again for everyone's support, stay-tuned to the official release.

[btotw]

Just want to say that this app is amazing work. Absoultely outstanding...!

[yellowpeter]

Hi all,

While the pilot is closed, we thought we should share the Tapatalk iPhone app to all forum owners who are interested to have first-hand access to the iPhone app before it releases on App Store with access to participated pilot forums only.

If you are interested to try this out please refer to the beta Tapatalk Support Forum at:
http://www.tapatalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9

Apple restricted 100 devices on ad-hoc and we have occupied over 30 now, so hopefully we can make use of all slots for this event.

[vbreal]

I am really loving this app. Ive been looking and looking for a dev to develop an app for my site. now i don't have to. I am looking fwd to the updates. i think the one i am looking fwd to most is uploading pics directly from the iphone. hahaa i never expected that.

i love how when there is multiple pics in a post. you can view the pics just as you would pics in your album by just swiping to the next pic.

What other updates are planned?
what updates are in development presently?

Just hit me, how does this app handle private areas? im guessing it follows the security settings in VB. i haven't noticed other wise.


When should we expect this to be released in the app store? My iphone users are looking fwd to it after i showed some screen shots of what my site would look like using the app.

[yellowpeter]

Hi vbreal,

Thanks.. yes for the security setting, it inhertis everything from vb system so you don't need to tweak anything specificly for iPhone users.

We are working on the Private Messaging feature where user can read/response to PM directly on the iPhone app just like they response to SMS messages.

We have submitted the app to Apple and is awaiting for final approval (you know their mess if you are into the iphone app scene). We have yet to announce the pricing but it will be a subscription-based model (i.e. paid subscription for forum owner). the iphone is free to download and is not ad-supported.

[yellowpeter]

Meanwhile we are waiting for Apple final approval before it shows up the iPhone app store, you can visit http://www.tapatalk.com/ if you can't wait to learn more about this solution. Also in there you can request a ad-hoc app to install manually to your iphone if you keen to try it out first hand.

[Wonksta]

Wow. Can't wait for this thing to be released so I can installed it on my forum!

[DeeperImage]

Definitely interested. Thanks!

[sflmkv]

This is already available, I purchased and I'm testing it.... but for some reason on my forum I'm getting a parser error on every post.

[yellowpeter]

Hi, I suppose it should be work now?