!!!Native iPhone App!!! (I'm getting closer :-))

All,

My intend with g3Mobile is to provide a nice browsing experience on the iPhone.
g3Mobile comes with some basic features to handle our gallery3 installations: upload, add/modify/delete.

Functionality:

• Basic Login/logout
• Tableview & Thumbview to browse the gallery
• Create albums
• Modify albums
• Reordering of album / images per drag&drop
• Delete functionality for albums and photos
• Image upload from library & camera (w/ optional caption)
• Full offline support
• Full caching to boost performance
• Async. load of album & images
• Simple slideshow (basic)
• Add/deletion of Comments (basic)

For testers: How do I get it?

• You must have at least iOS version (4.3)
• You need to be on the latest gallery3 version (3.0.2)
• You must have the Rest-module enabled
• All you need to do is to PM me an email address that you are checking on your iPhone.
  You will receive an email from http://testflightapp.com that allows you to register your device.
  Once done, I will push the latest version to you.

Status:

• Main development done. Main memory-leaks addressed.
• Code clean-up & inline-documentation in progress.

Coding:

• Project is hosted on Github: https://github.com/dave8401/g3Mobile
• The app relies on the libraries: three20, RestKit
• It requires XCode 4 and Git. For further instructions check the Readme there.

Community:
If you want to contribute please do let me know! In particular I'm looking for:

• Coding: iPhone developer(s), who could review and improve the quality of the code
• Design: Somebody who prepares a logo for the app Done! A very big 'thank you' to neven!
• Gallery3: Somebody who enhances user_rest so that we can get more user-data

BR,
David

That is so cool. I can't wait to try it out. I need to zip up the code I've written and share it as well.
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Just to subscribe.

sorry for getting back late ... too much work in the last 3 weeks.

@aligature: would you mind zipping up your parent-folder and sending it to me? i will have a look and let you know what to do.

@all: git-repo is online in a few minutes

@dave8401 Great job! A gallery3 iPhone/iPad app was going to be my next project, but I am glad you beat me to it. I have your code mostly building except for two errors:

1) three20 build expects Three20.bundle to be located in "g3Mobile/../../iPhone/three20/src/" (I can resolve this issue by creating the folder and placing the bundle there, but I would rather fix the underlying reason why it's looking in ../../iPhone).

2) The second issue is more serious. There always seems to be duplication symbols. Doing clean doesn't seem to help (another duplicate symbol pops up). Here is one of them:

I've Xcode 3.2.5 w/ iOS 4.2.

Everything else builds fine.

Lastly, may I ask what your plan is (i.e. release date, collaboration, paid/free app, etc.).

@genzeb: the issues you reported above are fixed. seems some of my rename / move exercises caused some side-effects ;).

Now it should compile:

mkdir test;
cd test;
git clone git://github.com/dave8401/g3Mobile.git;
git clone git://github.com/facebook/three20.git;

open g3Mobile.xcodeproj and hit Build & Deploy

BR,
David

Can u give me a link to your gallery (send me the details and I will check)?

You need a recent gallery3 as the app uses the tree resource to fetch items.

So far user/password is required, but that should be easy to change.

Thanks Tim for the interest.

I can't commit myself bringing out the app. I know that at least Bharat is working on another one. I'm pretty new to everything on the iPhone and the way I do this app is certainly not the best possible way (however it's working fine for me ).

How about this:
1. You get your images into a temporary G3 installation (you have to use the latest version from git!). The import shouldn't be so much effort.
2. Once you have it there, I'll try to provision a test-version of the app and give it to you.

This way I get a tester (who's hopefully patient) and you an app for your iPhone.
Anyone else who's interested pls. contact me.

BR,
David

@ Thomas: awesome; I need to do some more cleanups and expect to have a first version within 1 week from now.

I'm regularly testing with my own gallery but i have not that much photos (~3k).

Would you mind providing me meanwhile url and a username/password with readonly(!) access (just PM me)?

Thanks,
David

Hi xtrem57,

If you're interested in testing my app please send me the identifier of your iPhone.
It must be an identifier that's exactly 40 characters long.

You can do this via iTunes (this does work in Windows as well):

Thanks,
David

All,

Last week I spend quite a lot of time on improving my app based on feedback that I got so far. I will try to compile a working test version soon.

So far the biggest issue is the rest-handler: So far I coded this one on my own but realize now that this is not the right way to go. It works, but is a huge code overload and will limit us in the future.

My requirements in a nutshell:

• Assistance in parsing the JSON. Ideally transparent mapping to local objects.
• Transparent caching for performance reasons and to keep the app working while offline
• Sync/async. mode of operations
• Nice to have: integration into three20 (TTModel)

Does someone have hands-on experience with a good library that could help?

Can HTTPRiot cache requests?

Bharat, I shared my state of the app some time back.
Could you maybe say 1 - 2 sentences about yours? What did you different? How much ahead are you ? Are you close to a release on the app-store?

Thanks,
David

Would be very kind of you. In my one the rest part is very weak (really not proud of this ;)).

OK, you have seen my one and the approach, where do you see the biggest short-coming (don't be shy)?

FYI:
I did understand that displaying thumbs might not be the best for albums. So meanwhile I added another view (tableview).
This one has a thumbnail to the left and uses the right side for title, description, ... .

Right now you can just switch in the settings between them, but my plan is to combine them: have the tableview for albums (and mixed ones) and given that there are only photos display the thumbnail-view.

I am interested in testing the app. Should i send my iphone identifier to you?

I checked out the code and will provide my feedback. Thanks.

@dave8401: Thank you and appreciate it.

I assume the app allows browsing the galleries. In that case, it may make sense to allow admins to change the app name & icons - essentially this would mean that for potentially every G3 installation there can be an app in AppStore
(I am thinking of app use by end-users rather than gallery admins...)

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@dave8401: Thanks. I try loading in my iPhone with iOS 4.1 and didn't load. I will upgrade my iOS to the latest and will try to load the app again.

Question: Do i have to pass on my UUID to you for permission to run the app?

Thanks,
-Uday.

@dave8401: I just send my UUID in a private message to you. Pl let me know when it's ready to download the app again.

All,
To "easily" find out UUID of your iPhone, install a app called "AdHoc" by Erica Sudan. This will get you the system information and can even email the info.

Best,
-Uday.

@david

It appears the link in your post from a few days ago does not work. I sent you my Uuid a few weeks ago but did not hear back. Is this test for this build already over?

Thanks,
-Keith

Hey David,

Thanks for replying and putting it back up on your site. I was able to download the file. Yeah, i'm on 4.3 iOS. I'm glad I pressed refresh on the site today

Thanks again,
-Keith

Keith, G3 3.0.1 should work just fine.
If it doesn't pm me your details (url, user, password). I'll have a look on the weekend and, in case, change the app to make it work.

BR,
David

Just a FYI. Verizon ios is only at 4.2.6 so anyone with a Verizon phone cannot get to 4.3

Hi David,

I am a Gallery 3 user and would like to participate in your Gallery app testing, I have PM'ed you my device UUID.

Thanks & Regards,

Wilson

Shai, you're right!
A prerequisite for my builds is iOS >= 4.3.1. Thanks!

Way cool! Subscribing to thread.

@dave8401, sent you a pm. Hope this project is still on as this would be a great app. Would love to be a tester! Can't wait for the app