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Post by Term @ 04:51pm 30/09/08 | 26 Comments
AusGamers has gone mobile! Today, the AusGamers Iphone application went live in app store. Offering all the latest news, reviews and videos from the site simultaneously with the online site as they become avialable.

To download the AusGamers Iphone appication just search for 'ausgamers' in Apple appstore! Please let us know what you think of our first attempt at mobile content. Click here to go there in iTunes!
Latest Comments
TicMan
Posted 05:03pm 30/9/08
Quick and snazzy - although if it's just serving web content why not make an iPhone web page instead?

I'd like to see the ability to login with your AGN account and browse/reply to the forums. The current mobile version and normal site via a mobile device make it difficult to use the forums effectively.
NitMangTong
Posted 05:16pm 30/9/08
Did ausgamers have to pay apple any moneys to get this on the Iphone?
E.T.
Posted 05:17pm 30/9/08
Hey thats pretty cool. I'll make use of it :)
parabol
Posted 05:18pm 30/9/08
As far as I know you have to pay moneyz to release stuff in the apple store as a developer. Apple then accept/denies you depending on if you will tread on their other draconian revenue streams through duplicate functionality, etc.
simul
Posted 05:23pm 30/9/08
Did ausgamers have to pay apple any moneys to get this on the Iphone?


Bout 120$ for an individual license, bout 450$ for a enterprise license (can release apps without using appstore). Also free to develop, but need the license to test on the phone/upload to appstore. It does take a little while for apple to approve/dismiss, main thing is to follow their terms of use and HCI guidelines to a tee.
Nathan
Posted 05:24pm 30/9/08
There's a one-off fee of US$99 to distribute however many applications you want.
rubba-chikin
Posted 05:37pm 30/9/08
I'll grab it an have a looksie :D
trog
Posted 07:04pm 30/9/08
WANTED: FORUMS
E.T.
Posted 07:20pm 30/9/08
WANTED: FORUMS


2nd'd
that would be great.
Hogfather
Posted 07:21pm 30/9/08
WANTED: FORUMS


That reminds me, I've been meaning to practice my middleware by writing a web app to parse the QGL forum and serve up the content in a mobile-friendly format.

Would doing something like this earn me permaban for my trouble?
Opec
Posted 07:29pm 30/9/08
I don't own an "i"anything device, but I'm interested to know what does the apps do?
3dee
Posted 07:58pm 30/9/08
I've tried making iPhone apps and going from Visual Studio/C++ with nice libraries to XCode Obj-C was horrible. I couldn't easily figure out how to add things to lists, how to get things to create windows and stuff.

The whole Cocoa thing is just madly unintuitive to windows/VS coders. I gave up for now.
Dan
Posted 08:44pm 30/9/08
I don't own an "i"anything device, but I'm interested to know what does the apps do?
Pretty sure it
Offering all the latest news, reviews and videos from the site simultaneously with the online site as they become avialable.
It's just a tidy little portal app that gives you those 3 things in a simple one touch form.
nF
Posted 08:53pm 30/9/08
sounds hot
trog
Posted 09:18pm 30/9/08
Quick and snazzy - although if it's just serving web content why not make an iPhone web page instead?
There is actually one of these as well. This was largely experimenting with the iPhone SDK and development.
Jim
Posted 09:21pm 30/9/08
search would be cool, specially for the videos
Farseeker
Posted 12:31am 01/10/08
Sweet!

Here's my 1.1 (quick wins)
- on reviews list, get rid of the reviewer and date/time, add the final rating
- on videos list, show video thumbnails and the game's platform(s) and genre
- on a review, have a screenshot at the top. also is it possible to have a scroll to top like MobileSafari? it's just that there's a jump to bottom, but when you do that you're stuck there.
- remove news, or make it less frustrating by having it obvious what's from Today, Yesterday... then by date.

and 2.0 :P
- nav down the bottom: News, Features, Videos, Forums. (standard buttons like the iPod or Facebook apps). the Features section is ausgamers content that isn't really news, like previews and reviews (so these taken out of the news list)
- it keeps your place when you relaunch the app
- expanded info in the reviews list (a summary sentence, the genre, platforms, final score)
- badges on the nav for how many are new since last visit; and how many unread in the case of threads

My guess is this is a practice app, and the focus will be on a GameArena app. But yeah, thanks for this! The videos are awesome.
jadz0r
Posted 12:37am 01/10/08
I've tried making iPhone apps and going from Visual Studio/C++ with nice libraries to XCode Obj-C was horrible. I couldn't easily figure out how to add things to lists, how to get things to create windows and stuff.

The whole Cocoa thing is just madly unintuitive to windows/VS coders. I gave up for now.


Yeah turns out you actually have to have skills man ;)
Jim
Posted 12:58am 01/10/08
programming what?
Term
Posted 02:34am 01/10/08
actually we wont be putting this on GA interestingly. Thanks for the tips on further improvement, were running an active v2 dev list but not sure when we'll get at it. Forums and comments on posts are high on that list, the tricky thing will be when we can look at it
Boxhead
Posted 05:10am 01/10/08
I'm interested in the feedback type stuff you get from apple.. I read stories allover the shop of devs missing out on applications etc.. But you don't hear much from people who are actually in the process making apps (guess they're too busy developing..)

soooo..

if you're allowed to (NDA NDA NDA), do you get updates from apple on downloads etc.. demographics etc... (annnd.. would there ever be any need to influence the search stuffs.. cause lets face it, its hard to get on that front page)

and why no GA lurve? are telstra making their own portal for stuffs?
Term
Posted 07:26am 01/10/08
we dont do their mobile stuff, never have. The application process seemed to take for ever, we had this finished about 3 weeks ago - guess it isnt really that long. Apparently if you want to put something on there for a cost its even longer as there are a boat load of other contracts you need to do. We have some idea's there but like everything it comes down to time. We're pretty busy doing stuff that pays the bills. Things like this are more for fun - was a good fun project for everyone.
BillyHardball
Posted 07:51am 01/10/08
First, the video content streams so fucking quickly - completely blows Apple's youtube App out of the water!

Second, nice and clean, BUT I'm not sure how much advantage there is of using this app instead of just going to the mobile site through Safari. I find it annoying when you have apps that show you web content but with less convenience than Safari. Having said that, I'm not a gamer anymore and I don't really care about the content, so I guess you'd need to know from people who actually care about the content to see if they are willing to open a stand alone app instead of using Safari!
3dee
Posted 08:05am 01/10/08
What sort of bandwidth do the video stream at? (data allowance saving question)
Nathan
Posted 09:33am 01/10/08
max is 768kbit, but i think we use about 450kbit
natslovR
Posted 02:25pm 01/10/08
very nice guys, well done. Bring on the forums please
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