Dear fellow subscribers, the AC Team responded that we only need 50 votes for them to accelerate the development. Please take advantage of this and express your view, if you also feel that a mobile app would be useful to your site. Thanks!

In my opinion it is necessary to offer something, that is worth to buy the app and additionally have a reasonable price. At the moment it is 500+ bucks for a webview app that can be made within minutes. I do not see the point of that yet or did I miss some really unique features?

Hi, Le Freak, you're right. I totally missed that point. The price is extremely steep for a basic app that does not offer any compelling features which may be considered extraordinary.

I don't think the app is actually an "webview" app. It actually is a native mobile app, no?

App carvers ie tech joomla has html 5 hybrid app for ES. This is not native it's html code that runs in a webview like phonegap for example. Performance is not the same and it's not a native UI either just css.

Would prefer a native app and stack ideas team could use xamarin for cross platform one app for all ios and android and windows and have native performance.

Stack ideas could provide api for their code and apps for extra, if we can get source too we could customize.

Would like apps for easy social and easydiscuss. Html5 mobile apps aren't that great in my experience. ...

Seriously, if there would have been a native app for ios and android for the whole Easybundle including EasyDiscuss, EasyBlog and EasySocial, working like the components with all the functions and the same support quality like for the components, I would buy the app for up to 1000 dollars instantly!

Yes now adays mobile apps are the logical next step to include, otherwise everyone is paying for custom development and your losing out on business. Joomla might as well ship a rest api standard, devs add rest api hooks for their components standard, than have an app on top as an addon or bundled into the price and charge extra for customizations.

First web, then responsive, now mobile

Hm, xamarin is interesting! I always love C# and the reason that I fell in love with php was simply because the syntax was pretty identical.

Ya, check out unity for games (2d+3d). Allows C# and Javascript api but makes doing mobile games cross platform effortless, and has HTML5 export I think as well.

But for utility apps, Xamarin is really good. The newest version is better, their "forms" concept of having one set of ui tools to develop once but get native ui's on windows/ios/android makes coding even faster since it's the most common UI elements shared across each.

C# is really good, and it's a strong language to do good design patterns like event systems and etc. Put this feature in play!

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Keep the momentum building everyone, vote vote vote.

+1 from me too

Hehe, I have been playing around with xamarin for a day and it seems pretty nice but their app on Mac is extremely heavy

Yes. But the downside I have seen when running HTML5 hybrid apps is performance is not good, transitions, animations, etc. can be choppy and the android webview I've seen have more issues then the one on iOS. Granted HTML5+JS is easier, but if that's the case then frameworks like ionic or other "app" specific JS frameworks should be used for good look and feel, better performance, instead of trying to re-invent the wheel and have issues.

My vote is for the native option, as it performs better and looks better. But I do understand why HTML5 hybrid apps are appealing.

Native apps has a huge learning curve as opposed to frameworks like Xamarin, PhoneGap etc. If I have the time, I would definitely pick up Cocoa or Swift but time is pretty restricted for me as I need to be coding as well as providing support as well.

Let's be honest, extension businesses aren't lucrative and we are not making tons of cash. Most open source extension makers are suffering these days especially with the huge amount of people who are not purchasing a subscription for us. They would rather download from warez site.

In a business standpoint, there's no way to expand the offerings

Let's be honest, extension businesses aren't lucrative and we are not making tons of cash. Most open source extension makers are suffering these days especially with the huge amount of people who are not purchasing a subscription for us. They would rather download from warez site.

I have to admit that I have no idea what income you can generate out of your subscriptions here and how much is 'much' at all. Additionally having people 'steal' your work is bad, no doubt about that.

But I think, the better our sites work with your addons, the more money we can and will spend on the components. In case of an APP I am pretty sure the people would be willing to pay some more, at least I would. I know that my site would go through the roof with a native good working APP and therefor I would be paying for sure!


When I check my visitors I see half of them are on a mobile device. Competitors to my site have no APP yet, but the moment they would have a native APP and i.e. Jomsocial would offer something worthy I had to switch over because of that fact. Even though I would have never made this step without an APP.

My main intention of going with EasySocial instead of JomSocial or iConnect was the fact that AppCarvers are making an APP. Sure, nowadays I am more than happy that I have made the right decision, especially for your outstanding support but others might think the same way, once there are APPs for other community components and go for another component.

Hey Sabih,

I don't think there are any 3rd party extensions which provides a native app currently. When I mean native (using cocoa or java) to develop their apps.

At this point of time, we do not have the resources to develop native mobile apps but we will see how this goes with 2016 coming

Our first baby step right now is to develop a JSON api for all of the views which allows 3rd party or ourselves in the future to create a native app hooking onto these api's.

At this point of time, we do not have the resources to develop native mobile apps but we will see how this goes with 2016 coming

I believe in you and your team for sure!

Come and work alongside with me

Some of us are developers, it is definitely possible!

Yeah, come on over! You guys are always welcome in our office Take a holiday and come co-work with us.

Hello. I know I am late to the party, but we have had clients request this too. Is there one yet?

Thanks.

Channing

Hey Channing,

Currently we do not have native app for Easydiscuss, but we did added some of the REST API to allow 3rd party developers to create apps, you can read more about this REST API documentation here https://stackideas.com/docs/easydiscuss/administrators/rest-api .