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Thank you for taking the time to get back to me. It’s nice to confirm what I suspected. ie, best remove the buddybar on small screens and have the profile menu as the main one. I’ll change the home button to site-wide activity, and then have the profile as a compact drop down for mobile devices. I’ll report back when I get it set up.
Please do write it! I think I mentioned this to you on another thread. It doesn’t need to be branded, just really stripped down, so it doesn’t look out of place. An even more generic name would be better. “photo upload” or “iphone upload”. Charge a license fee. Many people will need it, so you could make some good coin. A WP version would be useful for some people too, but BP needs it more because of it social sharing focus. The key is not so much the upload function, which other apps already have, but the deploying of the photos once sent. There needs to be a button on everyones profile or gallery page, and a button on the activity stream. When the button is clicked, the app (if already downloaded) opens up and allows uploads from the iphone library or to take a picture. Once uploaded you are redirected back to the page in safari. Getting the photo into the uploaders gallery or activity stream is the tricky part, which I haven’t worked out yet…
A nice simple app that I’ve used to upload pics to a WP gallery is aurigma up. Nice and simple interface, but still has some serious bugs in ios5, and no native image rotation support yet.
If you want an idea of what looks terrible, try i-dump for WP. The worst looking interface I’ve seen, and they actually charge for the app. I can’t get it to work either, but to be honest, I didn’t try for long…Thank you for your response. When I said mobile theme, I actually meant responsive. The default does an okay job, but needs a bit of work to make it more like a web app feal. I working on that now.
So there are no more options for io5 that I hadn’t considered…
I’ll use flickr until a native app becomes available.Someone please write it!
As you say, it is probably a permissions issue. Change the permissions (Chmod Settings) for the upload directory to 777. You change it in your FTP client. Just right click the file and there will be a change permissions or Chmod settings link.
shanebp. Thanks very much for that. Now I know that it CAN be done, I will have a go with aurimga up again. Their app had the most seemless connection.
modemlooper, aurigma up does upload to your own server, but I don’t know if it goes to theirs as well. I think a native BP app would be very useful! I would love to try it. I assume you haven’t submitted it to the store yet? The app would really need to be free on the store for users of the social network to use, but you could charge a license fee for the webmasters of the sites. The app doesn’t need to be branded to the individual sites, but only a simple no frills UI to get round the mobile safari problem. Aren’t you the dev behind the mobile plugin? Incorporate it all under a premium theme! I’d buy it. Spent too much time already trying to work this all out…
I’ve been working on this for the past couple of weeks. I’ve found a couple of apps that you need to download first, and through them, you can send a photo directly from your iphone to your blog. “Aurigma up” is a nice, simple free app, but is not quite complete yet. It allows you to open the app directly from your wordpress blog, send the photo, and then return (somewhat seemlessly) to your blog. I have tried it on wordpress, but am now trying to tie it into BP. I want users to be able to add the photos to their album from their phone and then have that picture show up in the activity page as a thumbnail. I’m not too hot at PHP, but am trying to work out how to get this done.
If anyone has tried this, please share. I will post what I get done.
