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09/22/12 01:02 PM (11 years ago)

updates to plugin

Susan,

I was wondering if you had an ETA for when we might expect images in listitems for this plugin?
 
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09/23/12 08:07 PM (11 years ago)
I plan to get something to buzztouch this week. I have a lot of it working already in iOS but Android is taking me longer. Then buzztouch will need a window of time to get it to market.

I should be able to get the description text and the row icon into this release, and a few other improvements that are low hanging fruit.
 
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09/24/12 06:33 AM (11 years ago)
Awesome - thanks Susan!
 
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09/24/12 06:36 PM (11 years ago)
At this point, it will have the description line and the icon on each row. I am tweaking the icon a bit because so much has changed since buzztouch made 1.5. Now, for any image, you need four versions--two for iPhone and two for iPad, or Apple will reject. So for the plugin I am going to make it take one high res image and resize it (shrink it) for the smaller. As a lower priority trying to turn on iAd and background music, but I won't let that slow down the release of the icons and the description lines.
 
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10/02/12 12:02 PM (11 years ago)
Do you know when the new release will be ready ? I could really use the icon on each row. I'm making a football club app and would like to use the numbers for icons with screen background of grass. So as you scroll down it looks like your running down the field.
 
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10/02/12 10:31 PM (11 years ago)
I'm afraid it isn't done yet. Stuck on the Android, but iOS is working. I have the front end ready too. Sorry about that....I had planned to finish it before now.
 
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10/08/12 05:47 PM (11 years ago)
As your update stands right now, will it display properly on Android, just without the images? Or does it break the app? If it works just without images, could you release the update so we can start to work with it?
 
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10/08/12 10:41 PM (11 years ago)
The current plugin works perfectly on Android, but it doesn't have the description row and icons on each row. The new one will work for Android too. There will be minor differences between iOS and Android, but no substantial differences. IOS will have more functions, like background music and iAd.

Just got unstuck on Android today! I will turn it in to buzztouch in the next few days. Thank you for your patience!
 
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10/09/12 08:00 PM (11 years ago)
Oh great - thanks Susan - that is good news indeed!!!
 
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10/11/12 05:54 PM (11 years ago)
I just turned in version 2 of the plugin to buzztouch. I think they have a backlog of plugins to review, but this one may be easier because it is just an update. The update allows for an icon on each row and for description text. It also supports iAd for iOS only.
 
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10/15/12 09:50 AM (11 years ago)
Glad to see this update finally made it out!

Do you currently offer a way to provide an icon/image url for the list images? Or do we have to load the icons natively in the app?
 
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10/15/12 11:34 AM (11 years ago)
You can use a URL or an image. I think there is better performance if you drag in the images rather than rely on a URL.
 
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10/15/12 11:46 AM (11 years ago)
Susan - how would I go about using a url? I tried both "imageURL" and "iconURL", but neither seemed to work.
 
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10/15/12 08:27 PM (11 years ago)
Hi, Chris! So you see the field to enter the image URL or the iconURL but when you save, it doesn't go into your project? Can you see the image name in the JSON?

I just checked on buzztouch online and on my self-hosted, and I could see the image name in the JSON on both.

BTW, David Book is here in Minneapolis right now. So if we uncover something we have excellent access to David for help.
 
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10/16/12 06:48 AM (11 years ago)
Actually, I don't see where to enter the icon/image field in my control panel. The instructions at the top of the screen configuration page has wording about adding icons, but there doesn't seem to be a field to select an image in the configuration below (other than for the header image). My current setup is to manually enter JSON data, though, so I didn't worry too much about not finding the field in the control panel. I haven't tried setting my JSON data to iconName for an in-app image yet.
 
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10/16/12 06:51 AM (11 years ago)
okay - i just figured out where the field is - I didn't realize you had to click on the menu item in the control panel to find it. It gave me some JSON data to use, so I'll try that and let you know if I have success. It could be I had the order of the JSON properties wrong - that seems to mess things up for some reason.
 
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10/16/12 07:07 AM (11 years ago)
got it to work - thanks!!
 
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10/16/12 08:14 PM (11 years ago)
Sorry for the late response, but so glad you figured it out!

I may have a problem with Android I am researching right now.
 

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