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[IN DEVELOPMENT] Mobile XDA-Developers Forum App

Summary

Visit the forums, create posts, manage thread subscriptions, and manage private messages all from a simple app on your phone. Get background notifications when someone creates a new reply on a subscribed thread so you can reply in real-time.

XDA-Theme'd Screenshots, go back with left soft key, text scrolls when in focus, header scrolls with entire page, right clicking brings up a bubble preview!

And the Smooth Blue theme:

We've got an awesome developer working on this app right now...his website is here: http://www.ktemkin.com/ But don't worry, updates will be maintained on this forum too!

Features (See Key)

Green = Finished feature, Light Green = Functioning, but not polished, Olive = Working, but inefficiently, Orange = Almost finished, Red = In it's early stages, Blue = Planned for this version, Sky Blue = Planned for later version, Grey = Cancelled feature, Pink = Feature is on hold

Fully Skinnable, including the ability to add user color variables for use with custom layout files.

Full, automatic authentication protocols mean you never have to waste time logging in again!

View fora (plural forums) including post previews, with much faster rendering times than using a traditional broswer, finger friendly controls, and views optimized for mobile devices.

Full finger-friendly kinetic scrolling in all applicable views.

Finger gesture support.

Lose connection while typing a post? XDApp has an option to automatically queue your post and finish sending it next time you have a connection!

Download files and attachments instantly, without even opening a browser.

Upload a picture or file directly from the phone.

Take a screenshot of one's phone, and upload it directly as an attachment.

Configurable cache, utilizing storage card, and not internal memory.

Real-time update checking; i.e. no need to constantly refresh the thread you're on.

Extensible external framework will allow other applications to utilize its features: e.g. allow a user to directly post a bug-report, complete with attached memdump, to a developer's thread.

Full WYSIWYG editing of BB-code post formatting.

Push-style notifications on private mesages and subscribed threads.

Interconnections with my sensor control project which will allow use of the g-sensor, light sensor, capacitive button sensors, stylus sensor and camera to support various types of gestures and interactivities. For example, use the light sensor to automatically switch to a theatre or meeting-friendly 'night mode'.

How Downloads/Links Will Work

Internal XDA Link: Process inside the app.

Internal XDA Download (Attachments): Process inside the app. See note for browser complications.

External Link: Open default browser, or select a custom browser in preferences or by right-clicking.

External Download (direct):Use internal downloader (possibly via a compressing proxy), or right click for custom browser/application.

External Download (RapidShare, Megaupload, etc.): User browser.

Ideas (We're using the "HTML Mining" method right now)

Ideas section removed because the need is no longer here.

How to make the Login work

Login ect would need some type of api work. I've already looked at stepping through the html, it wouldn't be hard. (joel2009)

We've got a developer working on it. If you have any ideas, contributions, or praise, feel free to respond!

Proof that it can be done: PPCGeeks APP

Screenshots should be up later this week (around 7/19/09, I'd say)

Take a vote above in our poll (And no, we won't enslave the developers, just encourage them to work on the XDApp since we all use XDA-Dev) (The poll is old, not needed anymore! We got our developer!)

Messages from administrators:

6/10/2009 - From Administrator

Hi Andrew,

I am the administrator so please provide me with all relevant info.

Best regards,

Flar

Site admin

Xda-developers.com​

6/10/2009 - We need to take action

So, everyone: Which mobile system should the admins implement into their system? We have these possibilities:

Some Mobile Solutions:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=100764

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=151186

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=108641

Someone has put together a vBulletin extension that exposes a true API using JSON or XML: http://code.google.com/p/vbulletin-api. As a developer, I personally would much prefer this to scraping HTML. This would require installation of the API code into base software of the site: something to be considered carefully due to security concerns.

I think the best way to get xda on our handhelds is to install to the forum a mobile theme like this one: Mobile, Cell, Phone, PDA, iPhone Style, and also this Mobile Phone / iPhone / PDA Detection and Style Assignment

The makers of Tapatalk are looking for Windows Mobile developers that are willing to hop on board with them to make a Windows Mobile client for their program. Tapatalk: http://tapatalk.com/iphone/

Everyone please reply back with what you think will work best. I will then e-mail the administrator back with what we believe would be the best solution, and hopefully he will be able to implement it. Thanks!​

6/13/2009 - My Reply About Mobile Server Theme

Hello,

We've been thinking about what the best system for designing the Mobile XDA App would be, and we believe this would work best:

I think the best way to get xda on our handhelds is to install to the forum a mobile theme like this one: Mobile, Cell, Phone, PDA, iPhone Style (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=174375), and also this Mobile Phone / iPhone / PDA Detection and Style Assignment (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=173239)

So do you think that would work well? You would have to install the theme on your servers, but it sounds like it can be done! If you don't like that, then there are other possibilities, but they are lacking in security or functions currently.

Thanks for helping with this!

Andrew​

Bounty! Currently at: $135

jmckeejr: $10 for a fully functioning app with at least abilty to reply to posts without waiting for 5 minutes and trying to chase Opera around to see what I'm typing.

dnieman13: $10

apreichner: $5

codybear: $5 Around $5 if it works with Windows Mobile 6.5 and works better than using the Opera browser

uniqueboy: $20 more if it is that good, I mean I don't want to donate to just some basic app, but I do want to give to something like I visualise, state of the art!

krook6023: $15 for a working version with all the bells and whistles described

akp99: $10

Bijdehandje: $35 Exact: € 25 For a working Kaiser version that is a quality and complete app

greeneyemonstruo: $15

acidbath5546: $10

Benefits of using an App instead of a Mobile Site:

In considering the advantages of a standalone XDA Developers app over a browser, it occurred to me that if the app could cache certain selected parts of the site, for example the user cp and then update that automatically and invisibly to the user according to a schedule that would be very useful. If it were possible to select any thread and have it automatically cached and updated on my phone so that I could for example just start the app and immediately check say this thread for any new posts with a 0 loading time. For others they could schedule a sync only when a free connection was available to avoid a data charge. Just a thought.:)[/

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