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Is anyone out there developing an iPhone app for Mantis?

LOL

what?? so why???

are you not able to open your mantis website with your iPhone Web Browser??
please tell us for what it should be good for.

Yes I can view Mantis through the web browser fine,

I was just looking for a more user friendy app that has been designed for Mantis.

So far I'm not aware of any effort to produce an iPhone optimized application. There is MantisWAP ( http://www.futureware.biz/mantiswap ) which provides efficient access to more basic phones.

I haven't researched what is involved to implement / test such applications. If someone has links related to how such optimized apps are developed and some way to simulate an iPhone (since I don't own one), then maybe we can get something going.

The only way I know is to get the IPHONE SDK for MAC OS from APPLE. Then you can develop an APP for IPHONE. But if you want to test it on your phone and publish on the APP Store you have to pay 99$/year.

We use Mantis for our own project and we discussed already to develop such an APP, but we didn’t know how many people are interested in. And if we want to get back the 99$ / year we have to take a minimum amount of money to compensate the costs. But how many people will pay 50 Cent to 1$ for such an application?

Hello,

I can develop apps, is it just an Apple based app you would require or to fit all smart phones?

It is good to use browser just to minimize the usage of applications in iphone Don't you think sooo

I'd be interested in an iPhone AP too. 50 cents to a dollar won't kill me.. LOL.

An iphone app for Mantis is a neat idea. 99 cents for an app wouldn't be so bad at all.

bathroomsguru wrote:Hello,

I can develop apps, is it just an Apple based app you would require or to fit all smart phones?

Well, if you do develop them, i would suggest to support at least also Android.

It might make more sense to tailor new custom web pages for the iPhone specifically instead of creating a custom iOS application.
Using MantisBT on my iPhone is okay and completely useable but it would be great if it had its own custom web pages to utilise the screen better. It would probably end up similar to the WAP project.

gcparris wrote:It might make more sense to tailor new custom web pages for the iPhone specifically instead of creating a custom iOS application.
Using MantisBT on my iPhone is okay and completely useable but it would be great if it had its own custom web pages to utilise the screen better. It would probably end up similar to the WAP project.

version 1.3 will provide more CSS styling, which will be the base for customization of mobile device output.

I always thing specific apps work far better on the Iphone than the internet portal!

Tax4Actors, can you give an example what you expect when using MantisBT on iPhone which can't be done in browser?

yes i'm intrested in an iphone or ipad app too. It's more efficient and convenient to use apps rather than the browser.