SkyscraperCity iPhone / Android app now available

[7t]

There is no need for tapatalk. The current app does an excellent job in reading forum content.

[VelesHomais]

Originally Posted by xJamaax

I prefer using Safari though, I like seeing the forum as it is!

+1

[Pegula.00]

I'm sure that there are people who simply prefer Tapatalk because they're used to use it, just as I am. All forums that I'm visiting support it, except SSC.

Is it so hard to press some "enable" button?

[DaiTengu]

Originally Posted by Pegula.00

I'm sure that there are people who simply prefer Tapatalk because they're used to use it, just as I am. All forums that I'm visiting support it, except SSC.

Is it so hard to press some "enable" button?

by "enable" you mean I have to go hunt down the latest version of tapatalk, hack it to work with our search system, upload it to 11 servers, then install the plugin in the admin system, then I have to buy taptalk on my android, since the version I originally had was on the iphone so I can test it fully, then enable it.


Yes, it's totally just a "enable" button.

[Омич]

I cant login using "SSC Forums" on Android

[Омич]

Help me please

[DaiTengu]

It's probably due to the Cyrillic characters in your name. I'll talk to Jan about it.

[enterfornone]

Originally Posted by 7t

There is no need for tapatalk. The current app does an excellent job in reading forum content.

Reading, yes, but participating in the discussion - sadly, no.

[xAbd0o]

Originally Posted by DaiTengu

by "enable" you mean I have to go hunt down the latest version of tapatalk, hack it to work with our search system, upload it to 11 servers, then install the plugin in the admin system, then I have to buy taptalk on my android, since the version I originally had was on the iphone so I can test it fully, then enable it.


Yes, it's totally just a "enable" button.

Damn, I never thought admins are such hard workers

[Apteryx]

I'm using the iPhone app and there're some improvement that can be done...
in the favorite section should only appear the subscribed threads that have some news, just as it is on the traditional browsers.
the second one concern the people in the ignore list, if they reply one thread, you can't even see the post, even not as a collapsed section. That cause the thread cannot be marked as read.

[vallacopito-tranolid]

Is any version for Symbian planned?

[DaiTengu]

Originally Posted by vallacopito-tranolid

Is any version for Symbian planned?

No.

[ser91e]

Originally Posted by enterfornone

Am I the first user from a cyrillic using country? This app is unfortunately completely useless for us in Bulgaria and I suspect Russia as well. Everything posted in Cyrillic letters goes to "???"s afterwards.
C'mon, it's 2011, Unicode is a standard, this is a laughable bug, it's not DOS in 1993...

This is a test -> ???? ? ???? - same sentence in Cyrillic.

I have the same issue with Polish characters like ąśćęźż. They are changed into closest standard characters. It's possible to read that kind of text but for other people it looks like I'm to lazy to use proper letters. Please sort it out ASAP. Cheers.

[Malaysia Mustafa]

Originally Posted by ser91e

I have the same issue with Polish characters like ascezz. They are changed into closest standard characters. It's possible to read that kind of text but for other people it looks like I'm to lazy to use proper letters. Please sort it out ASAP. Cheers.

I have the same problem with Tamil fonts. It shows only boxes. I can't read also. Mr. Moderater, can you plz fix this unified issue?

[Alexandris]

Congrats !!!
I do have an android mobile and I use the application.

I face a promblem with the editing though. When I write Greek in a new thread or I just edit an old post, when I press the submit button, all the existing text appears as question marks (?)

So I don't write any more from my mobile. I just use the application to read the forum.

I don't think its my Mobile's Unicode browser problem.
Any way I don't mind a lot.

[Ushiro]

Useful app, but...
- Crashes VERY easily (at least on iPod touch)
- When you select a thread, it goes to a random page (not the first, nor the last)
- When a thread is heavy, the app crashes.

And the known issues about international keyboards.

But it's useful if you stay away from larger/heavier threads.

[Jan]

Regarding the issue with non Western character sets, this is what I got back:

Originally Posted by ForumRunner

I believe this is an issue with Android in general. IIRC, certain earlier releases of Android didn't have a lot of foreign character set support. I know with Android 2.2 and beyond they added a ton of different fonts that supported languages such as Cyrillic.

It would be helpful if you can provide links to the posts/threads in question with the incorrect characters.

There likely could be a translation issue on the server side plug-in as well but I won't be able to debug it unless you let me know exactly what they are trying to post (with the greek characters, etc).

If anyone still has this problem, could you post me a link to a thread that doesn't render properly on the app? Thanks in advance.

[enterfornone]

For the Cyrillic characters, it's not about reading, it's the posting!
It's on iOS, I don't know about android

Here's an example - text in Cyrillic:

????? ???? ?? ????????...

And it goes to ??????s...

[Malaysia Mustafa]

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=712180

I couldnt read "tamil" font anywhere in SSC android app. The above link has an example

[d29]

If you don't mind me asking, any impact it had on server resource usage? Am running a much smaller forum, can't find an answer to this anywhere and it's the only thing stopping me from installing a mobile solution.