I’m excited to report that we’ve had our first TapLynx plug-in created — by a TapLynx user. According to Tyree Apps, the plug-in, called Citizen Reporter, is “a little view controller that lets a TapLynx app offer the user a quick way to snap a photo and then email it to someone without ever leaving the TapLynx-based application.”
As Brent Simmons, creator of TapLynx, says on his blog, “one of my favorite parts of TapLynx is that it’s extendable: you can create new views with new features. (Note to programmers: TapLynx is a static library. You still use Xcode to build apps, though TapLynx makes it so you write code only if you want to.)
For those more technically inclined, Tyree Apps has a great, and very detailed explanation of the first TapLynx plug-in in their blog post in their blog post here. You can also see what the plug-in looks like.
Finally, I would be remiss if I didn’t post the kind words they had to say about TapLynx itself: If you ever want to create an RSS based application you should definitely check out the TapLynx framework. The framework is designed to be used by people with limited coding experience and is controlled by making configuration changes to a .plist file. If you have a list of RSS feeds and a couple of images, you can have an app compiled and ready to submit to the App store in under an hour. Really.
Thanks, guys, and great work!
