XenForo App?

[0xym0r0n]

Android is simple. Not sure about iOS as it requires developers own a mac and a developer license, as well as hardware to test on.

In the mean time, you can add an apple touch icon to your site and users can add it to their homescreen easily enough (or they could, I haven't used iOS since v3).

iOS requires $99/yr license+mac OSX of a certain version and higher. I know... I bought a mac to learn and realized I hated it. WYIWYG editor is great, but it's really not much better than some editor like eclipse that you could use for android.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I want my forum to show up as an app in the iOS or Android app store

Why ?

 

[euantor]

iOS requires $99/yr license+mac OSX of a certain version and higher. I know... I bought a mac to learn and realized I hated it. WYIWYG editor is great, but it's really not much better than some editor like eclipse that you could use for android.

Yeah, we're looking into it for work. I've already developed an in-house Android app and an app for Windows Mobile 6 (and soon 7 and 8 - they're not quite finished yet). We will be buying the required hardware and everything, but there are a lot more hoops to jump through. Not to mention you have to learn objective C which is pretty much only used when developing for Mac.

 

[0xym0r0n]

Yeah, we're looking into it for work. I've already developed an in-house Android app and an app for Windows Mobile 6 (and soon 7 and 8 - they're not quite finished yet). We will be buying the required hardware and everything, but there are a lot more hoops to jump through. Not to mention you have to learn objective C which is pretty much only used when developing for Mac.

Learn objective c first then jump into the license. i wasted money learning a wee bit of objective c then getting a license. All X Code is is a deployment/WYSIWYG editor imo...

 

[Jeremy]

It's really easy to create an iOS App. Check out some XCode tutorial vids on YouTube. I was trying to create one myself. Made little samples. But to really do what I want, I'd need more php experience of which I have very very little. The only hard part for most experienced developers in my opinion is getting approved.

Creating iOS applications that properly function, handle everything that'd need to would be quite an under taking and not as easy as you think it'd be.

 

[DRE]

Creating iOS applications that properly function, handle everything that'd need to would be quite an under taking and not as easy as you think it'd be.

I didn't mean to insist that creating a Xenforo App with nearly full integration such as tapatalk for example would be easy. But if you did one where it just basically sent you to the website then that's very easy.

 

[euantor]

Learn objective c first then jump into the license. i wasted money learning a wee bit of objective c then getting a license. All X Code is is a deployment/WYSIWYG editor imo...

Yeah, thing is we HAVE to learn it. A client wants an iOS app, so we have to make one. Or else we won't fulfil the contract We'll probably start of writing a few small mac apps as I don't believe you need a develop license for that.

 

[Jeremy]

Which isn't really an application at all. The purpose of an application should be to reduce network usage (purely data), support as much as the site as possible, and provide a speed boost to users browsing from their phones. The fact that all UIWebViews are delegated to a non-optimized JavaScript rendering engine (unlike Safari) is reason enough for me to say that a Native Application that is nothing more than a wrapper with a few features and a web view is useless. Source: I work in mobile commerce and we make applications. The difference between the current application I'm working on and its predecessor that's live in the app store (native v. web app) is astounding.

 

[0xym0r0n]

Rather than demanding an app, certain sites should focus on promoting how mobile friendly their site currently is. They could be providing tutorials on creating bookmarks for specific phones as well as making their mobile experience even better. MOST people using the phone for me were doing because they were quickly checking their phones during break time at work. With our without added features, these users were checking my site without an app once responsive was launched. Notifications meant nothing to them and they have no desire for more native features. At least ones I could provide within my knowledge lol *someone wanted me to make friggin mini-game*

IF your site has a niche, for example I own gaming sites, you could develop an app for a feature. Example I'd love to start ladders and score keeping for GTA Online. I could develop an native app to grab stats and features that a user could view on the go at the convenience of their phone without logging into my forum and navigating to a specific section. They could schedule match-ups from the app or decline/accept.

As an addition I could attach the forum in a webview, but it's really not something I'd do.

 

[euantor]

And a WebView would be a rather pointless way of doing it. if that's all you want, just tell your users how to pin your web app as a web app.

 

[=MGN=RedEagle]

There is clearly a ton of enthusiasm for a Xenforo app. Thanks to your comments I now have the answers I need to my questions, however, I wonder if we should not organize ourselves and have someone lead a crowd funding initiative to get a good XF app going for all of us.

 

[euantor]

To do it properly, you would need a plugin creating for XenForo to act as a data provider using JSON or XML ideally that the app(s) could consume.

 

[0xym0r0n]

Someone did make xenapi

To do it properly, you would need a plugin creating for XenForo to act as a data provider using JSON or XML ideally that the app(s) could consume.

I believe this would be a start? http://xenforo.com/community/resources/bd-api.1732/

 

[euantor]

Someone did make xenapi

I believe this would be a start? http://xenforo.com/community/resources/bd-api.1732/

Yeah, looks like it would cover the basics at the least.