"Feel free to start discussions about iPhone and Android apps in this category as well."
The web app is nice and all...but it's still not the same as having a true mobile application. Is an API still on the horizon? Is the Nirvana team planning to create iPhone and Android apps?
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Support Staff 2 Posted by Christiane Magee on 31 Mar, 2010 02:12 PM
Hi @haeffb,
an iPhone app will no doubt be built in the future, but not until we implement the remaining core features and get the API locked down. We went the cross-platform mobile web-app route because when we update the web app, the mobile web app gets updated at the same time - this was not the case for the iPhone app (and if we had an Android one, same thing).
I suspect that when we do launch the API, an outside developer may even beat us to the punch! There would be nothing wrong with that from our view.
Hope this answers your question.
Cheers,
Christiane
3 Posted by haeffb on 21 Apr, 2010 07:33 PM
In another thread, I mentioned some of the benefits of native mobile apps over web apps on mobile devices.
One other issue that has become apparent is the difficulty in making your web app work correctly on the various mobile browsers. Now you not only have to worry about Nirvana on IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, but -also- IE mobile, Opera (Mobile/Mini), Fennec, Blackberry's browser, Android 's browser, etc, etc.
I would suggest that releasing an API and letting other developers provide the mobile device solutions would allow the Nirvana team to focus on the core Nirvana web service.
Support Staff 4 Posted by Christiane Magee on 27 Apr, 2010 09:14 PM
Hi @haeffb...
going through support/community posts from oldest to newest. Just to repeat what I wrote in the other one. Could you open up a private discussion re: API access? I'll bring it to the attention of the developers here as, agreed, it would be great if the dev community could build some device specific apps. I'll see if we can somehow find a solution to provide API access without having to open it up completely given it's still being worked on and we don't have the documentation written up yet.
thanks!
C
5 Posted by Chris on 30 Jun, 2010 06:49 PM
One of the main/best features of a native app is notifications.
This doesn't need a native app, just the API. You could have Astrid then sync with your Nirvana tasks and display it easily onAndroid with notifications then. And use the default Astrid widgets for a quick look at the days tasks.
The API as priority before any native app would be the best solution. (Hopefully the iPhone has something similar that could sync tasks, is it even possible on an iPhone? I know it is much more limited in what it can do compared to Android)
6 Posted by dawn831 on 22 Jul, 2010 04:38 AM
Just discovered you guys and I'm pretty excited to try your framework. I've tried other GTD platforms and none of them can compete with my current system in Outlook. But it looks like you guys are definitely competing. Awesome.
What I'd really like to see is an app for Android. I currently use Astrid for mobile brain dumping, but only because there's nothing better out there yet. I don't like it very much because it's not very comprehensive and it's detail management is pretty buggy (problems with syncing due dates, recurrences, etc.). If that's the only solution possible for a while, as Chris mentioned above, then so be it, and I'll be grateful for that much. But it would sure be great if there were a corresponding true Nirvana app for my Android phone. :-) I'd be in GTD heaven!
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