Comments for Nial Giacomelli

Comment on Episodes v1.0.1 by Pier

Pier — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:07:03 +0000

Hello, it’s a great application! great work, but i’m curious, the app in what database or internet website search the episode?

Comment on Episodes.app by Nial Giacomelli

Nial Giacomelli — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:21:04 +0000

We’re hoping to submit to Apple this weekend. So hopefully it’ll be in your hands sooner than you think!

Comment on Episodes.app by evoman91

evoman91 — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:02:40 +0000

This is awesome news! I love Showtime and can’t wait for this, its probably to early but is there an expected release date?

Comment on Showtime by Nial Giacomelli

Nial Giacomelli — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:09:24 +0000

Khalid, glad to hear you’re enjoying Showtime. The application itself creates an SQLite database the first time it’s run. From there, all of the Watchlist information is stored locally on your iPhone or iPod touch. JSON calls are then made to my webserver to poll for new show releases.

Hope this helps.

Comment on Showtime by Khalid Abuhakmeh

Khalid Abuhakmeh — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:22:05 +0000

Great app, I am convinced that web apps will win over native iPhone apps. This app makes a compelling argument.

I just made my site iPhone capable by using JQTouch and it was pretty easy. I have a question for you. How do you guarantee a user get’s his list without a login. I figure that you are dropping a cookie on to the iPhone or can you get iPhone information through JQTouch?

Comment on Showtime by Cedric Dugas

Cedric Dugas — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:55:31 +0000

Hi,

I saw your web app today, I tried it on my iphone and I need to say nice work, I rarely saw a jqtouch custom app in a large audience like showtime would provide.

One thing however I saw was how the TV show list loading was slow, even on wifi. I was wondering if there was a specific reason why you avoided loading the list directly on the first page? instead of doing ajax later?

Thank you!

Comment on Showtime by Nial Giacomelli on His Showtime iPhone Web App «

Nial Giacomelli on His Showtime iPhone Web App « — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:14:55 +0000

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Comment on Showtime by GH

GH — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:43:42 +0000

Im building together conciergeapp.com using the same framework and its a joy to use. Launching soon. There are cube effect transitions on there, but my older generation iPhone wont run them without visible delays. Completely agree with your sentiments on the need for native controls within WebKit. The OpenGL Core for a start…

Comment on Showtime by Hamranhansenhansen

Hamranhansenhansen — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:46:04 +0000

The problem for Web apps is that they’re not universal yet. We just had a lost decade of IE6 and most smartphones still can’t run the Web effectively. If your Web app is only going to run on iPhone, then why not make it a native app and charge money for it?

What is needed is for non-Apple vendors to get their act together. They need to have the equivalent of Safari on their platform and then optionally a native app platform. When you can build one HTML5 app and it just works everywhere then Web apps gain an equal footing with native apps, like a yin yang, each doing the thing they are best at.

Comment on Showtime by Peter Cranstone

Peter Cranstone — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:55:21 +0000

Great job. Personally I believe this is the way to go. The purists may shout (they always do) but the bottom line is that you an iterate rapidly without intervention. That alone is worth the price of admission. I’d be interested to see how this web app works on non iPhones. As a side note we’ve been advocating the Mobile web app for some considerable time – the issue though is collecting enough context from the device in real time. To solve this problem we invented an app that sends real time meta data (whatever you want) via the HTTP protocol directly to your web service. Now there is no longer a need to query the device to see the location – your web app now knows it without having to ask for it.

Let me know if you want to learn more – we have a free version for Blackberry and Windows Mobile and we’re finishing off Android.

Cheers,

Peter
CEO 5o9 Inc.