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Luîs
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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I've been playing around with mobile programming this weekend and made something similar to the mini bgg site.
This one is formatted to work well on Android, iPhone, iPod Touch, etc...
http://louspot.com/mbgg/
it doesn't ask for a password, but will need your username if you want to list out your collection.
It also includes another version of the mobile game selector.
any feedback would be great.
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Luîs
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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Re: another mobile site
Added some game stats to the game details.
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Re: another mobile site
Nicely done.
Can you add the BGG Rank as one of the stats? It would also be nice to see comments.
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Luîs
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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Re: another mobile site
celiborn wrote: Nicely done.
Can you add the BGG Rank as one of the stats? It would also be nice to see comments.
Thanks for the feedback!
I've added both features. Comments for some of the more popular games may take a few seconds to load.
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Andreas Krüger
Germany
Krefeld
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Re: another mobile site
Looks really good.
Minor typo: "Numbe of Ratings"
If possible, add the rating to the comment.
How do you decide which comments are displayed? Is it possible to show just a limited number of random comments? This may be less data to download and equally useful, but of course only if the data is available without downloading all comments.
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Luîs
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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Re: another mobile site
Thamos von Nostria wrote: Looks really good.
Minor typo: "Numbe of Ratings"
Thanks, and good catch. Fixed now.
Thamos von Nostria wrote:
If possible, add the rating to the comment.
Unfortunately the BGG XMLAPI only gives an array of comments without any other associated info. I'll keep asking, maybe even get the username of the person that made the comment too.
Thamos von Nostria wrote:
How do you decide which comments are displayed? Is it possible to show just a limited number of random comments? This may be less data to download and equally useful, but of course only if the data is available without downloading all comments.
Right now I'm just displaying the first 100%. The XMLAPI just gives them all at once with no way to page through the results. I like the idea displaying random ones. Maybe I should make a setting on the settings page to set how many to display at once?
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Ben Friedberg
United States
Winona Lake
Indiana
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Re: another mobile site
any way to get # wanted and # for trade? (That would make this a better thrifting / garage saling tool...)
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Luîs
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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Re: another mobile site
benfriedberg1981 wrote: any way to get # wanted and # for trade? (That would make this a better thrifting / garage saling tool...)
done!
thanks for the feedback
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Ben Friedberg
United States
Winona Lake
Indiana
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Re: another mobile site
Awesome! That was fast work! The next thing that would be 'flippin sweet' would be average pricing, but I don't know if that comes out of the xmlapi or not...
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Re: another mobile site
Sorta bug report: for some reason this website doesn't work properly in Opera for the iPhone. In particular I can't get to the "Settings" panel, and I can't click the "Search" button in "Game Search" panel.
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Luîs
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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Re: another mobile site
benfriedberg1981 wrote: Awesome! That was fast work! The next thing that would be 'flippin sweet' would be average pricing, but I don't know if that comes out of the xmlapi or not...
Unfortunately there's no pricing info in the xmlapi. Maybe I should query ebay and amazon?
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Luîs
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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Re: another mobile site
celiborn wrote: Sorta bug report: for some reason this website doesn't work properly in Opera for the iPhone. In particular I can't get to the "Settings" panel, and I can't click the "Search" button in "Game Search" panel.
So far I've only tested it on mobile webkit browsers(android, iphone) and chrome an firefox. I'll have to pull down opera and take a look.
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Luîs
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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Re: another mobile site
Added a few more features, included caching the collection to local storage so you don't have pull it down every time.
Just need to add a button to clear the cache now 
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Jonathan Ham
United States
Denton
Texas
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Re: another mobile site
Doesn't work at all on an LG Vu. 
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Luîs
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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Re: another mobile site
howdyhamster wrote: Doesn't work at all on an LG Vu.
Unfortunately the Vu doesn't have a mobile webkit based browser like android and iphone and I don't have any way of debugging it. Is it possible that there's a setting to turn on javascript that's currently disabled?
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Luîs
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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Re: another mobile site for iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android
Now it does browser detection to look a little more like a native app.
And off course, everyone loves screenshots.
Android OS:
iPhone OS:
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Mark Blanco
United States
Charlotte
North Carolina
Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? (James 2:15-16)
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Re: another mobile site for iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android
Long names seem to have formatting issues: (iPhone 3GS iOS 4.0)
Searched for "Wildlife"
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Frank Feldmann
United States
Dayton
Ohio
Now contributing to Father Geek!
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Re: another mobile site for iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android
I like it! Any chance you could include a "Want to Play" selector and a game weight selector in the game picker? I could probably stop doing my fancy spreadsheet then!
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Starla Lester
United States
Las Cruces
New Mexico
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Re: another mobile site for iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android
Sweet! 
Thank you for taking the time to do this. As for feedback, I would love a link to my geekbuddy list on the opening page, if possible.
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Luîs
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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Re: another mobile site for iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android
Geese wrote: Long names seem to have formatting issues: (iPhone 3GS iOS 4.0) Searched for "Wildlife"
ewwww that's a tough one to fix the right way. For now, I've changed it to trim off the excess and append a '...' when it's over 30 characters. I plan on making that bigger when the phone is held in landscape mode. Or should I just up it to 50 chars and tell people to hold it in landscape?
thanks for the input!
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Luîs
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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Re: another mobile site for iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android
feldmafx wrote: I like it! Any chance you could include a "Want to Play" selector and a game weight selector in the game picker? I could probably stop doing my fancy spreadsheet then!
I've added the "Want to play" as filter criteria. A weight selector is a bit tougher because the api only gives you that back on a game search or detail list, but not when retrieving a user's collection.
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Luîs
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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Re: another mobile site for iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android
Ryuu wrote: Sweet! Thank you for taking the time to do this. As for feedback, I would love a link to my geekbuddy list on the opening page, if possible.
I could link to the buddy list on the bgg site, but I'm not able to pull down data on it and reformat it because there's no XMLAPI call or RSS feed for buddy lists.
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Frank Feldmann
United States
Dayton
Ohio
Now contributing to Father Geek!
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Re: another mobile site for iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android
monteslu wrote: feldmafx wrote: I like it! Any chance you could include a "Want to Play" selector and a game weight selector in the game picker? I could probably stop doing my fancy spreadsheet then! I've added the "Want to play" as filter criteria. A weight selector is a bit tougher because the api only gives you that back on a game search or detail list, but not when retrieving a user's collection.
Fantastic! Thanks!
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Mark Blanco
United States
Charlotte
North Carolina
Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? (James 2:15-16)
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Re: another mobile site for iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android
monteslu wrote: ewwww that's a tough one to fix the right way. For now, I've changed it to trim off the excess and append a '...' when it's over 30 characters. I plan on making that bigger when the phone is held in landscape mode. Or should I just up it to 50 chars and tell people to hold it in landscape?
thanks for the input!
If you are able to truncate after 30 chars with "..." in portrait, and then display more characters in landscape (and then truncate with "..." again after 50 or so), I'm thinking that would be the best solution, if it's viable.
Great work, BTW.
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Luîs
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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Re: bgg mobile site for iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android
Added a bit more info to the game details page
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Posted Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:58 pm
