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

[Chris 96 WS6]

Well pickles. Installed the files on my server only to see after 5 pages that the pilot program is closed.

Please update the first post to notify users the pilot is closed.

I'm extremely interested in this but it all depends on the pricing as my forum operates off very thin margins.

[yellowpeter]

Originally Posted by Chris 96 WS6

Well pickles. Installed the files on my server only to see after 5 pages that the pilot program is closed.

Please update the first post to notify users the pilot is closed.

I'm extremely interested in this but it all depends on the pricing as my forum operates off very thin margins.

Hi Chris,

We have updated the main page to reflect this. Thanks for reminding us!

We have set the official launch date as May 1st. Stay-tuned!

[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

[vbreal]

Originally Posted by 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.

posted this in the 3.7 version by accident

[MrBig]

Originally Posted by R1lover

Why do I feel there will be a catch to this one when it's finished?

yup i bet you $1.00 you will see them add banners in the iPhone ap , thus making money from your forum.

[yellowpeter]

Hi,

We will not put any advertisement on the app, but we plan to develop a toolkit so forum owner has an option to put THEIR advertisement on the app when their members viewing their forum.

Thanks vbreal your nice comment. For the security part we inherit it from vbulletin existing policy, that is, if your forum is supposed to hide from a specific user, it will appear the same in the iphone app.

Again our support forum is just opened in case you want to get first hand information on it is available at http://www.tapatalk.com/forum

We are still awaiting Apple approval for the app to appear on app store.

[vbreal]

im really curious how that ad thing will work.

look fwd to seeing that.

damn apple is so slow with aproving apps. haha

[S7rik3R]

Looks awesome ... I'll wait for the official release.

[yellowpeter]

yah vbreal, we can't believe the time to take to get this on app store...

regarding the advertisement model, we plan to offer a web-based tool so forum can publish small banners (usually their small logo or their sponsor logos at places where does not affect user's already limited screen real-estate. we haven't started on this yet but will once other major features are completed and stablized.

we are still trying to get the private message feature included in the Tapatalk, I really hope apple is not going to let us wait for too long until we can offer this service to all.

[dklassen]

Can't wait until this ready for prime time. Great job!