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How to build a location-based hybrid mobile app with reverse geocoding

77 points by amirnathoo 14y ago

joering2 14y ago
Pretty cool. Just downloaded it into my iPod 4th. Unfortunately, the photo did not come through. I see broken image icon [bluish small one]. Also, on Wine List, my address/street is very long so it looks like it is cut off. But trigger.io looks like amazing framework to build hybrids, and will definitely include it in my next project!
jgrahamc 14y ago
Random fact: the bottle of wine pictured on that page is one I drank in a restaurant. On the bottle there's Lorem Ipsum text that accidentally hadn't been replaced: https://twitter.com/#!/jgrahamc/status/140827340757417984/photo/1/large https://twitter.com/#!/jgrahamc/status/140827340757417984/ph...
matthiasb 14y ago
You were able to implement this over a weekend??? That's really fast and I must be doing simething wrong!
- amirnathoo 14y ago
  Well, strictly, it was a 'long weekend' :). It obviously helps that I'm already familiar with it and the other technologies I used - especially trigger.io (I'm a founder) and backbone.js. But with those it becomes pretty fast to implement these kind of apps.
asmithmd1 14y ago
Trigger.io looks interesting but I am not sure I understand the pricing. Do you need to pay them if you want to distribute an app? Do you need to pay them just when you are developing the app or the whole time the app is for sale? This from their FAQ does not clear it up for me: "The monthly payments are a license to use the cloud build service and to distribute our native bridge with your applications with enhanced support," So the fee is for support?
- amirnathoo 14y ago
  I'm changing the words on that as it is confusing - you can use Trigger.io for iOS and Android completely for free. It's only if you need to upgrade to get additional support or Windows Phone that you need to pay the monthly fee.
pavingways 14y ago
i just tried the app (iPhone4, iOS 5.1): - camera/gallery selection does not go away, have to hit "cancel" - star rating seems broken at first (apparently to small hit targets for finges) - location in list has broken icon/image to the left - broken image in detail view - native bars gone after a few screens, must kill/restart app - maps work so far this is less than impressive. reading the post made me wanna try trigger.io, playing with the app made me decide otherwise - not production ready it seems.

77 points by amirnathoo 14y ago

Pretty cool. Just downloaded it into my iPod 4th. Unfortunately, the photo did not come through. I see broken image icon [bluish small one]. Also, on Wine List, my address/street is very long so it looks like it is cut off. But trigger.io looks like amazing framework to build hybrids, and will definitely include it in my next project!

jgrahamc 14y ago

Random fact: the bottle of wine pictured on that page is one I drank in a restaurant. On the bottle there's Lorem Ipsum text that accidentally hadn't been replaced: https://twitter.com/#!/jgrahamc/status/140827340757417984/photo/1/large https://twitter.com/#!/jgrahamc/status/140827340757417984/ph...

matthiasb 14y ago

You were able to implement this over a weekend??? That's really fast and I must be doing simething wrong!

amirnathoo 14y ago
Well, strictly, it was a 'long weekend' :). It obviously helps that I'm already familiar with it and the other technologies I used - especially trigger.io (I'm a founder) and backbone.js. But with those it becomes pretty fast to implement these kind of apps.

asmithmd1 14y ago

Trigger.io looks interesting but I am not sure I understand the pricing. Do you need to pay them if you want to distribute an app? Do you need to pay them just when you are developing the app or the whole time the app is for sale? This from their FAQ does not clear it up for me: "The monthly payments are a license to use the cloud build service and to distribute our native bridge with your applications with enhanced support," So the fee is for support?

amirnathoo 14y ago
I'm changing the words on that as it is confusing - you can use Trigger.io for iOS and Android completely for free. It's only if you need to upgrade to get additional support or Windows Phone that you need to pay the monthly fee.

pavingways 14y ago

i just tried the app (iPhone4, iOS 5.1): - camera/gallery selection does not go away, have to hit "cancel" - star rating seems broken at first (apparently to small hit targets for finges) - location in list has broken icon/image to the left - broken image in detail view - native bars gone after a few screens, must kill/restart app - maps work so far this is less than impressive. reading the post made me wanna try trigger.io, playing with the app made me decide otherwise - not production ready it seems.