Hi Mark

Do you know if native mobile notification will be made available? This is one of the important feature for mobile.

Hey Mark,

It look simple and friendly user interface. Love it.

Peter is right, native mobile notification will be great.

Nice work guys.

Good work Mark! Thanks for the preview.

Sorry Mark but can you explain, how will I be able to integrate it to my site. Will that be a 'template' for me to submit my app to Apple?

Thanks so much Mark!! I've commented over at TechJoomla to see if they will share time-frames et. al. Earlier in their thread they indicated they were awaiting for stack to "release the APIs" and I assume that's all happened now that the big 1.2 milestone has been met.

I'm sure the developers at TechJoomla would find great motivation from encouraging comments we can make about the upcoming Mobile App for ES.

Outstanding, Mark
Can't wait till its completed, I believe Stackideas and TechJoomla will definitely hit a home run with this. Glad to see progress;)

This is exciting!

Hey guys,

The app would be a native app and I believe it will be something pretty similar to Tapatalk.

Just replying so that I'm subscribed

Looks good!

Subscribing to this discussion. Looks real good Mark.

Thanks Mark!

I feel better now knowing you guys are going to be involved in the design side


Can't wait to be honest,

I agree with you Muhanad, I did not think the techjoomla design was that clean looking.

Amazing

Great !!

Thanks guys, again this is just a prototype our designers are working on. Final product will definitely look better

Awesome Stackideas team !

I cannot wait for the stackideas products template Prototype

This is another working prototype from our designer

very very great and beautiful ! looks like very UI and UX

Thank you Our designers would be really happy to hear this!

Can't wait. when i did a soft launch two days ago.


92% of the visitors came from mobile .. i was like man, they are not gonna get the best experience viewing the website on mobile .. .. so Bring on this app.

Where is techjoomla btw.. any comment from them?

This is another working prototype from our designer

Mark,

this was very good. you could release it as a mobile version for EasySocial.

Before launching applications.

Great work Mark! Looking really good now.

We are actually not developing the apps This is a Joint Venture between Stack Ideas and TechJoomla. We'll be assisting with the designs and screens and also the API that is required by their app. They will be responsible to release the apps

@Mark wow, this demonstrates the similar focus on simplicity and aesthetics as we see at Apple. What's the designers name? Very impressive work.

@Muhanad and everyone else, I'm sure that TechJoomla would welcome positive encouragement and engagement. I don't find a User Voice area at their site but maybe community members here could start with comments to a relevant blog post at their site to motivate and possibly influence direction?

I for one am excited about the Venture between Stack Ideas and TechJoomla, both are very robust and knowledgeable in what they do. I am very excited that Techjoomla took the lead on developing the mobile app before anyone else, great for them.
I was adamant at first at trying ES since I was already using JomSocial and ijoomer, but with every release of JS there were always major changes that makes updating anything third party time consuming.
I must admit I invested quite a bit in those two, but the moment I read about ES from Stacks, within a day or two I completely dumped JS and ijoomer. One of the best decisions I have ever made.
I am so ecstatic about the mobile app I can hardly contain myself. I have patience though, so I will contain myself .

Thanks for the kind compliments guys More info about our designers are available here, http://stackideas.com/team

+1 Vote Looks cool Would love to try it Nice job!

Thanks Attila

@Mark and everyone involved here and TechJoomla with the development, congratulations on everything so far, it looks superb with simplicity to give a great user experience, looking forward to the release!

Thanks Richard We're collaborating very closely with the guys over at Techjoomla.

Can't not mention it, i don't like the fact that this long thread didn't grab the attention of the techjoomla guys ..

we would like to hear more from them:)

Got it, will forward this to Parth

Hello All !

Thanks for all the great feedback. Yup we love the StackIdeas focus on design. And hopefully you will see that effect rub off our own product as well soon
The initial UI we published were just wireframes ..

Just so you know we are continuously monitoring the thread. Dates as i mentioned on our blog are a bit dependant on the APIs. But we are working on some non dependant areas & progressing well so far.

Push Notifications is definitely planned..But it might just come in the first update after the release

Hi Parth,

Are we talking weeks or months for the release?

hello,
thanks for your work
one more time it's sound promising
can' wait
loïc

Everyone on this forum knows that social engagement changes the way we shop for products --- we get feedback from each other about 3rd party products which influences what we do. But our activity and interaction with Stackideas engineers and support also influences their product roadmap. Every company that wants to maintain and increase sales can't help but do that in order to stay successful and to grow. So it's good for both the customer and company to talk to each other.

Let's spend some time engaging Techjoomla on their own forums and comments to their extension and development blogs, news, and "Techjoomla Labs" in the same healthy and supportive way we do so on this forum with always constructive feedback and encouragement. This will generate even more good feelings and conversations about the upcoming joint mobile product on their forums and elsewhere, producing even more advocates (internal and external to Techjoomla) for the joint product we can't wait to purchase, extend, and deploy.

Thanks for understanding Eileen! I always believe in the following equation:


Great customers + Great Developers = Awesome products

Good stuff Eileen,

Do you have the URL to the specific forum thread on TechJoomla so I can add my support and encouragement?

Hi Randall here's the URL to the thread. http://techjoomla.com/general/sneak-peek-into-the-easysocial-mobile-app.html

This will be great! Can't wait!

Antonio Simmons wrote:

Hi Randall here's the URL to the thread. http://techjoomla.com/general/sneak-peek-into-the-easysocial-mobile-app.html

Thank you Antonio,

I will be checking this out tomorrow.

Randy

In the beginning there was the big bang, then the combination Techjoomla + Stackideas

Thanks guys

Superb Cant Wait for this:)

Thanks Jason

I'm looking so forward to this. Even more so after today.

Randall M wrote:

I'm looking so forward to this. Even more so after today.

What happened today Randall? :-)

Any news?

Hello Cristiano,

I believe the guys at Techjoomla is still working on the app

Impressive layout.

Thank you

A quick update - We're close to finishing the design on this one and should be able to start with the API integration sometime this week. The beta version is not very far!

This is very awesome news Parth! Thank you for keeping us all updated

Parth Lawate wrote:

A quick update - We're close to finishing the design on this one and should be able to start with the API integration sometime this week. The beta version is not very far!

Parth,

You bring good news today that will make everyone excited about this smile.

Look forward to the Beta.

Randall

I must admit the Stackidea's team is probably the most progressive and dedicated team that I have ever come across . **** you guys are great. Keep up the awesome work.

Best regards

Sam.

Thanks for updating Parth

Parth Lawate wrote:

A quick update - We're close to finishing the design on this one and should be able to start with the API integration sometime this week. The beta version is not very far!

Question for you: I found this on your Techjoomla site. Shika - LMS for Joomla ???????
http://techjoomla.com/categories/listings/shika-lms-for-joomla.html

Many people not too pleased with iJoomla's approach to only making Guru work with iJoomla extensions.

So what are your plans if any for Shika - LMS for Joomla? It would be awesome to see you at Techjoomla come out with an awesome LMS that works seamless with SI extensions.

@Randall You have been doing a bit of detecting i see We are taking a very fresh approach to elearning in Joomla with Shika.. The initial builds which were pretty simple but functional have been in use at some client sites for almost 2 years now.. The timing of your question is very apt.. Look out for a blog post in our Labs section next week for more information on our plans for the LMS ! And yes Social Learning is a big part in it..

Awesome very very excited

Parth Lawate wrote:

@Randall You have been doing a bit of detecting i see We are taking a very fresh approach to elearning in Joomla with Shika.. The initial builds which were pretty simple but functional have been in use at some client sites for almost 2 years now.. The timing of your question is very apt.. Look out for a blog post in our Labs section next week for more information on our plans for the LMS ! And yes Social Learning is a big part in it..

Hello Parth
I'm interested in a LMS system, I have some ideas about it. How can we help you?

Parth Lawate wrote:

@Randall You have been doing a bit of detecting i see We are taking a very fresh approach to elearning in Joomla with Shika.. The initial builds which were pretty simple but functional have been in use at some client sites for almost 2 years now.. The timing of your question is very apt.. Look out for a blog post in our Labs section next week for more information on our plans for the LMS ! And yes Social Learning is a big part in it..

Parth,

This is very good to hear. I sure hope you make it work with EasySocial. There are a few of us here on the forums that have a need for an LMS for social learning. You will have me as a customer and avid supporter. Thanks for two huge smiles today with your news of the ES mobile app and of Shika. Does the name Shika have an attachment to learning?

Parth and others,

To not clutter this ES mobile app focused thread, I created a new thread to allow us to discuss TechJoomla Shika LMS

Go here: http://stackideas.com/forums/techjoomla-shika-social-learning-lms-and-easysocial

Good news Parth! Can't wait to have it integrated with EasySocial and I would seriously want to take this integration with your LMS to the next level considering some competitors who are not open to competition

Mark wrote:

Good news Parth! Can't wait to have it integrated with EasySocial and I would seriously want to take this integration with your LMS to the next level considering some competitors who are not open to competition

That's fighting talk Mark. I like it

Hello Mark,

Yeah, I am not normally that offensive but after what Randall posted in the other thread where iJoomla officially states that they will only support their products for now, it really got into my nerves but yeah, I believe what Parth and team is working on should be pretty solid and I would love to see what other collaboration we could add with the LMS from Techjoomla

Every time Iget a Special Offer from iJoomla for Jomsocial or Guru via email I feel like creating a parody video and sending it back to the CEO. At the end it would say for the call to action.

You only have 2 days left before your competition crushes you with a new version.
You have less than 12 hours to copy as many new features as you can with your unoriginal developer team to try to keep up with the new guys.
Better hurry! Act Now!

Thanks for working on demanadas their customers, this looks great

Hi Mark,

Just wonder if it is possible to slot-in site theme, or you have similar APIs for 3rd party developer ? We are going to develop our own site app and definitely will implement both EasySocial and EasyBlog (and other components) all together in our apps too (or maybe do some external call to your coming ES app).

You have plan to charge for app customization? (or white-labeling)

One another important thing is for your note is : JFBConnect integration.

Hello Alfred,

You can always refer to our documentation here, http://docs.stackideas.com/developers/ . You can also generate apps with a list of known triggers at http://stackideas.com/apps/generator

any updates ?

Not really sure what this is all about but I think that I can add 1+1

Soooooo glad that I switched from CB too ES

Looking forward to hearing more…

It's actually a mobile app collaboration between Techjoomla and us

Yeah Techjoomla the only guys who are currently in the running for an LMS that plays with ES. I really love playing joining the dots

Oh my, oh my, this is interesting! 'Subscribing' to this topic . Can't wait to see it! Just brilliant. A perfect way to keep social interaction for a personal site on a high level.

Will there be a price tag to it? :P Or will current EasySocial Subscribers gain access to the app and have the ability to whitelabel it?

Hey guys,

It would be free (As I was told by Parth)

Mark wrote:

Hey guys,

It would be free (As I was told by Parth)

what do you mean by free mark? whitelabled free? that doesn't make sense :/ .. why would they have it for free..

I think there will be a generic app that's free and there's also the white labelled one which could be charged if I am not mistaken.

Spot on Muhanad!

The Stackideas designed/Techjoomla branded app will definitely be free. We will however offer custom, white-labeled builds and these will be priced.
This model is similar to our Jticketing app, and we believe this offers the best of both worlds - customers getting a great addon and we also being able to fund current and future development.

The app itself is coming along nicely, we're hammering in the excellent UI created by Stackideas while we're waiting for a few more APIs to meet our version 1 feature goal. More details coming in a blog on techjoomla soon!

will cost $ 400

Thanks for sharing this Ashwin

Cristiano,

Where did you get this price? It's kinda pricey though.

Any word on EasyBlog, EasyDiscuss, com_content or even K2 integration and time frame? I would be interested in investing in a custom whitelabeled app I can brand with my logo and such, but only once it has EasyBlog (com_content and K2 would also be an option, whatever is easiest to integrate) and EasyDiscuss integration. For a magazine site as mine, it would be pointless if there was no way of reading articles.

I agree with Yannik, if there is no support for other apps, there will be little interest from me or my users.

EasyBlog, EasyDiscuss and com_content is a must.

JReviews and K2 support will be very popular too.

Mark,

We are not sure about the details of the joint venture between the two companies .. but I really believe mobile apps are profitable these days and since im not sure about how many people are dedicated to this project, I really encourage investing good money and workforce for this project. this might get you both techjoomla and stackideas a fortune.

I know we can't expect easyblog,easydiscuss and other components to be integrated at start, we don't even expect all easysocial features to be integrated in the beginning but i encourage paying attention to this project


Regards,

Thanks for sharing this Ashwin

Cristiano,

Where did you get this price? It's kinda pricey though.

The same amount they charge by JTicketing Events Manager App
http://techjoomla.com/jtickting-events-manager-app # pricelink

@Cristiano - The white labeled version might be around that much, yes. Though we have not finalised the price yet.
@Jannik, Mark H & Muhanad - Seeing the interest spike up in this, we will probably bump up the team working on the app. Let me also see if we can help out on the API end so that things can move faster.

On integrations with the other extensions - Yes that is definitely something on the cards, we're already thinking about how a generic app can be built that integrates with all these extensions, at the same time easy enough to configure and use for your end users. Any thoughts ?

Thanks everyone for the support and interest!

Ashwin Date wrote:

On integrations with the other extensions - Yes that is definitely something on the cards, we're already thinking about how a generic app can be built that integrates with all these extensions, at the same time easy enough to configure and use for your end users. Any thoughts ?

Hi Ashwin,

Have a look at iJoomer.com. They have integrations with JomSocial, Jreviews, Kunena, K2 and others.

They have the right concept, it's just that the end product is buggy to the point where it is unusable.

Emulate their approach, but just make it work. If you do this, you have a customer here and I know of many others over at Jreviews who will buy in too.

Thanks for the update on this Ashwin, that is great news.

While, I couldn't answer how to do it from a technical perspective. From a UI perspective, it would be nice to have the option of which components to integrate and what to call the menu items. For example, some people might have a Magazine and a "Developer Blog" at the same time. A lot of themes use K2 or com_content as the main Magazine layout, and then EasyBlog as a Blog for updates about the site and developers, it is not uncommon to use multiple CCKs for different parts of the site. So it would be great if we can choose either custom menu item names, or pick from a predetermined list.

EasyBlog could be called Blog as default. (but if possible give option to call it News or Magazine too)
Com_content could be called Magazine or News by default. (but if possible give option to call it blog too)
K2 could be called Magazine, News or Articles by default. (but if possible give option to call it blog too)
EasyDiscuss could be called Discussions, Forum or Ask a Question as default.

Also, depending on complexity, it would also be cool if we could choose what menu item to have as frontpage. As some of us might want to try to use EasyBlog or Com_content as frontpage to provide a closer experience to our websites.


Also, is there any word on any chat integrations comet chat, arrow chat, jbolo etc? (and on a side note, whats the word on the jbolo integration with EasySocial conversations and option for hosted?)

Ashwin Date wrote:

@Cristiano - The white labeled version might be around that much, yes. Though we have not finalised the price yet.
@Jannik, Mark H & Muhanad - Seeing the interest spike up in this, we will probably bump up the team working on the app. Let me also see if we can help out on the API end so that things can move faster.

On integrations with the other extensions - Yes that is definitely something on the cards, we're already thinking about how a generic app can be built that integrates with all these extensions, at the same time easy enough to configure and use for your end users. Any thoughts ?

Thanks everyone for the support and interest!

Hello Ashwin,

two points to discuss here,

1- i don't believe the app should be around 400$ specially not first versions. I do understand apps are costy to develop and you build it to work on IOS and Android and maybe windows phone but still your early versions will be very basic with only easysocial to support and won't be worth that price. add to that the cost of easysocial .. this will take it to 500$. i do understand the price is not finalized but don't make it pricey, you can do that when it's fully integrated with easyocial and other components.

2- my suggestion will be is moving along with the trends are guiding us to which is native apps... as you have mentioned, do bump your team and get ready to invest in mobile apps because in couple of years i believe, we will mostly use apps to communicate ( already in some countries, only apps are used). so the direction of techjoomla i believe should be focused on that area,
you have the chance to make techjoomla the first to provide top native apps for joomla extensions .. if you are capable and have the capital to invest money into workforce and technology, trust me you will find the return very rewarding.
but please if you are going to do so, make your extension as good as stackideas products. minimum bugs, great visuals and innovative. your previous extensions were not that stable (socialads) and lack the nice designs. go the extra mile and invest in designers and quality insurance.


Best of Luck and waiting for your blog post about the progress

I think Muhanad is right. My main problem with Techjoomla has always been the bad design. I am sure they are doing their best but their visuals are so off putting. First thing to do is invest in a designer. If there is anything we learned from Apple is that the world will not tolerate boring Microsoft graphics.

I put up with a PC just fine. However I gotta hand it to Apple for having a nice graphical user interface. I make up for the lack of styling by using FireFox. Once a stable app is released I'm sure some attention could be given to the styling portion.

Hello Everyone !

We hear you loud & clear We have always been hardcore geeks at heart however we have realized now that Design is super important.. I would encourage you to try the latest versions of SocialAds & JTicketing - both of which we gave special attention to getting cleaner designs out & on extensive QA.. Your feedback is extremely important to us . So if any of you guys are using these 2 products ( & similar changes are coming in all our products in their upcoming releases) hopefully you will agree that we are on a 'Design Mend'.

The Stackideas guys have set a great example in the Joomla world & we are staunch followers. Hopefully you will be as satisfied with us as you are with them very soon

Just saw an interesting UI element in a video of a mobile app that provides feedback on relative position in the timeline as you scroll (@ .30 sec)

Eileen O'Donnell wrote:

Just saw an interesting UI element in a video of a mobile app that provides feedback on relative position in the timeline as you scroll (@ .30 sec)

Nice video and nice feature .. thanks for sharing .. i hope techjoomla is coming with news soon

Hi Muhanad,

I emailed techjoomla 2 days ago with questions about the new app. I told them that I would be extremely interested and never got a response. To be honest, that is my main concern (other than their visuals which thank God this time are covered by Stackideas team!). Maybe this project is a bit down their priority list since they won't get back to a customer willing to spend 400 dollars on their product!

(never cease to amaze me!)

Hi Everyone,

Apologies for the long silence. We actually needed to switch gears and had to redo a bit of the app. The team is making up a small video of the app as I write this post. It will go live tonight along with the blog about updates. A positive promise of a blog post today!

@David - Replied to you.

Ashwin,

I'm Cheering the TechJoomla Team on and look forward to any updates and blog post you have about the EasySocial App. you'll make lots of followers happy with the video and blog post.

Randall

I've been pleased with TechJoomla's support and have subscription to a number of their products including the crowd-giving app JGive which is integrated nicely into ES. David, I'll also be getting the custom-branded app when it's available.

Hey guys,

I will get in touch with the guys at Techjoomla especially Ashwin and Parth and see if we can work out on a closer collaboration. Perhaps we should probably get together somewhere in between so we can sit down and discuss over these matters.

Hi everyone,

I got an email from Techjoomla which I am sure they wouldn't mind me sharing. It looks like the first use of the app will only become available after Stackideas release EasySocial 1.3. Naturally they will need some time after the release as there are new features to be released in 1.3. In other words, don't hold your breath

Also, the app will be $600

Hi Mark,
Sounds like a plan ..

Everyone,
On the pricing, we will get custom/whitelabel app pricing out soon. According to the threads so far it can be anywhere between 350 to 600$ but let's not speculate on that .. Cause emails sent might have been for specific cases..

Hi Parth,

I didn't mean to make it sound like a complaint. If everything that is promised is delivered, than that is fair. My only questions were about updates and how does that work?

Where has David's post about price gone?

Hello everyone,

Here it is finally, I've put up the video in a blog, do view and comment here -
http://techjoomla.com/general-updates/easysocial-app-first-preview.html

@David & others. We are already working on an offering which will enable custom-branded app subscribers to also receive updates. Would let you know more information once we have this chalked out.

This will be a Hybrid App using:
http://www.appcelerator.com/
http://www.appcelerator.com/titanium/

This APP will be made ​​with Appcelerator, is a hybrid APP.

http://www.appcelerator.com
http://www.appcelerator.com/titanium/

This application will be made ​​with Appcelerator, is a hybrid APP

Hey guys,

I am locking this thread as it is getting really long and it's a pain to go through them. Let's start a new thread on this instead