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Maybe we need to get all the developers together in a chat some night and decide how we can make bo_sox do all the work.

"Maybe we need to get all the developers together in a chat some night "

Wouldn't ATC be lonely?

Is Chaqa implying that he's a developer?

I have some programming experience, but probably not enough to make an app.

I can organize and manage, though

Seems like a pretty solid amount of work. An app would be super duper awesome but let's keep in mind that this is a free site kept going by volunteers.

I say this every time, but what we're short of is developer hours. We're not short of design ideas, feature ideas, or managers.

Anyone who wants to work on improving the current mobile experience is extremely welcome.

A major problem is that I don't have an android, and most of the mobile issues seem to only affect android for some reason.

You can get an app for this built on a website like www.freelancer.com for only a couple of hundred dollars.

You get what you pay for.

ATC I have tons of issues and I'm an apple user. I think Apple users are just so used to crappy products we don't complain. Using the forum requires such precise finger presses I often click the wrong thing and get teleported miles away to someone's profile page offering to sell me oil paintings and passports for low low prices...

I've got a Samsung phone and use it all the time to play at WebDiplomacy without any difficulties, and I'm a fuddy duddy with limited internetting skills

I'll say this again. Of the two options for mobile development hours, (an app vs responsibe web design) the app has the advantage of increasin our profile on the apple app store (and whatever android use) and the disadvantage of taking a lot more work (though with modern technology it isn't twice the work for two platforms)

We just need someone to put together a project and the willingness to learn about app design. Volunteers? (An yes this will look good on any CV!)

CB- what issues do you have other than missing buttons? I have no problems at all.

I'm using an apple phone, and the interface is a pain. Clunky and annoying. But it works fine, just not optomised.

I agree it's not nice, but as far as I know everything works. Last time I checked android, quite a bit of the site wasn't displaying properly (odd shaped press boxes, strange sizes of pause notifications, etc).

I'd welcome any efforts to improve the mobile experience. The best way to go about it is to make the site more responsive, because we don't have a particularly nice API for a mobile app to work with (particularly the way that orders are authenticated will be very annoying).

@ATC you can run a virtual android phone on your pc, not sure how much time and effort it would take to setup, but i'm pretty sure it is standard practice.

Might be a useful skill for you in general.

Also, i was reading the developer forums, and Kestas talked about an API, mostly for tournaments, back in 2009. Which makes me sad it never happened.

@ATC- When I go to use the drop down options in-game the only way to select them is to subsequently click the IRL box at the top of the screen otherwise the orders won't work. It's weird.

URL* oh and my iPhone apparently doesn't know what an URL is... So there's that.

I'm a developer, yes. I don't do much web/front-end work, though, mostly desktop application or calculation-engine things. I'd be willing to help but I think we need to figure out a game plan, whether it's just a front-end redesign or a full rewrite of the website.

ATC has a gameplan. Talk to him about it.

An API would be awesome. We could build our own apps around it. Front-end webdev here, can maybe help out if this gets off the ground?