This is the development blog for all the official WordPress apps, including iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry.
The best place to start is the Mobile Handbook (draft). It gives you all the instructions on how to get set up with any app environment.
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Of course feel free to ping the Team Rep on duty or anyone in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode to get started as well!
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Hi everyone,
I’ve been into the handbook today and looked at what’s been done over the past couple of weeks.
The Blackberry section is now complete – thanks Danilo!
There is still work to do on other sections though. Please see my post http://make.wordpress.org/mobile/2013/09/17/ive-now-worked-through-all-sections-of-the/ for details.
Thanks 
We didn’t follow the usual pattern for the dev chat this week since the majority of the contributors couldn’t make it, and instead opened it up to potential new contributors. — Chat log.
Featured Images discussion
@lonchbox (Pancho Perez) joined us to chat about some ideas he’s had for a better iOS app experience, in particular setting Featured Images.
The discussion was mainly around the placement of the feature and how important it is to editors when using a theme that supports it. We went over the reasons as to why it’s in the Settings tab currently but ultimately agreed that there may be a better home for it somewhere more prominent in the main post editor. Wether this be a button in the tab bar, a graphic overlaying the post, or something exciting like a parallax top header we’re not sure of. Do check out Pancho’s post as it brings up some interesting concepts. @hugobaeta later tweeted and it looks like we’ll be looking at solutions when outlining the visual editor project.
We’ll circle back to the status of the apps next week. Join us in #wordpress-mobile at 16:00 UTC on Monday, October 7!
Here we are, I’ve completed my project and submitted all the stuff to the GsoC for the final evaluation. Now I don’t want to bother you with more word, let’s go to the serious thing
Here is a short demo of the app running on my BlackBerry Z10 (sorry for the poor quality!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89L8kQjCCQo
The project sources code are on the official SVN repo here :
http://gsoc.svn.wordpress.org/2013/b0unc3/trunk/
There is also a GIT repo, here :
https://github.com/b0unc3/WordPress-bb10
For whom feel brave enough, but not enough to compile and run the code , a .bar beta package is present in all the repos in a “beta/” directory it contains the latest version installable on your devices.
You can install it with the blackberry-delpoy command line tool, or by sideloading it (google will help you with it 
)
svn : http://gsoc.svn.wordpress.org/2013/b0unc3/trunk/beta/wp_bb10-1_0_0_1.bar
git: https://github.com/b0unc3/WordPress-bb10/blob/master/beta/wp_bb10-1_0_0_1.bar
That’s all! I hope you find comfortable with it. If you have any suggestions/critics/feedback/whatever, please, feel free to contact me directly.
I want to give a special big thanks to the WordPress community and GsoC program, I found this experience amazing and I learned a lot!
Thanks!
Best Regards,
Daniele Maio.
Looks good! Plan on adding any editing buttons? Such as insert more tag, link etc?
Yes, I think I’ll be able to add those things in the next release.
Good News !!
Damage ! It doesn’t work on Q10 and Z30
I don’t have a Q10 neither a Z30 
Can you please report which OS version are you running and which is the actual outcome.
Thanks.
Did you try to setup the device simulator as a Q10, or Z30?
In the application or another c++ class, you can do this to get the screen size. Then in the qml, just call these functions to resize.
int ApplicationUI::screenWidth()
{
bb::device::DisplayInfo display;
return display.pixelSize().width();
}
int ApplicationUI::screenHeight()
{
bb::device::DisplayInfo display;
return display.pixelSize().height();
}
Q10 is option 2 on the simulator. Z30 is option 3.
This is the final week of Google Summer of Code 2013, all the submissions have already been made and the final evaluations are well on their way. So, this is my last GSoC 2013 update and I plan to use this post to display the final result of what I’ve been able to achieve this summer.
Here are a few screenshots of the app that I’ve taken using the Geeksphone Keon developer device for Firefox OS, which roughly cover the primary features of the app:-
At the end of the summer, I would like to state that I’m actually quite satisfied and happy with the way the app has turned out to be so far, given the time-limited scope of GSoC. However, I would like to continue work on the app beyond the GSoC timeline and see to it that the app goes forward towards a matured v1.0 release sometime in the near future.
I would also like to express my heartfelt gratitude and thanks towards @aerych, who has been my mentor for this project. He has been an exceptionally good guide for me throughout the summer and always helped me whenever I’ve faced challenges or felt stuck during the coding period. Also, I would like to express my thanks to the WordPress and Google Summer of Code project coordinators for giving me the opportunity to work on developing the WordPress app for Firefox OS. Thanks a lot to everyone!
@sayaksarkar Your screenshots didn’t come through. Can you post them again?
Beta 2 of the giant WordPress for Android update with new Media library, Stats, Themes, and PIN lock features is out now. If you haven’t joined up with the beta yet, just request to join our group on Google+ to get access to download the beta:
Since there are still a few bugs to take care off, the road map was revised so we can do a second beta this week and release on Oct 7. We need to test more with Jetpack to make Stats are working like they’re supposed to.
NUX and the new, native WordPress.com Reader will be the next release after that, towards the end of October.
The Android project is in dire need of beta testers. If you’re interested, keep a look out for a post appearing here soon or simply comment on this post.
Our update for iOS 7 was released and got some nice attention. There’s been some serious bugs and a bug fix (3.8.1) is already out, with 3.8.2 being submitted tomorrow most likely.
Once bugs are out of the way, we’re pretty much ready to release Themes. Media is also looking a whole lot better. The visual editor work will be postponed to later in October.
As far as the refactoring goes, we’ll pick it back up once we’re done with the current feature iterations — it’s likely that there are going to be more changes needed after we’re done with all of these.
@rachel_mccollin took a look at the Handbook and posted her notes. BlackBerry has already been updated and Windows Phone cleaned up, but the iOS section still needs work. @aerych urged the iOS contributors to divide the work in between them and write up the missing documentation.
Since the vast majority of the contributors working on the iOS and Android projects will be out the next 7 days or so, the projects will only be monitored and development will be picked back up around October 4-8. For Android, the beta will be the top priority and for iOS it’s taking care of the most severe bugs showcased in the app.
The next weekly dev chat is scheduled for September 30, 2013 at 9AM PST/16:00 UTC as usual. Most of the regular folks will most likely be out, and since the projects are on a little hiatus we don’t expect much that will need to be talked about. However, we’ll still have it and anyone that wants to join in and chit-chat is more than welcome to.
The WordPress app for iOS is featured in 92 App Stores around the world, including a top app listing in the Social Networking category in the U.S. store. This is huge, so we blogged about it on the official WordPress for iOS blog.
Spread the love and don’t forget to rate the WordPress app if you like it!
The WordPress app is featured as a top app in the U.S. App Store! http://t.co/wPr7GsQCQg spotted by @koke #WordPress
— WordPress for iOS (@WordPressiOS) September 20, 2013
3.8 is finally out, ready for iOS7.
It feels great to finally come out of the shadows and merge all the code back to our public repo at https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS. We’ll be publishing some more branches in development over the next few days.
In the meantime, go wild testing 3.8 and let us know how it goes
Congrats all around!
Congrats from the Android team! Next round is on us.
I’ve now worked through all sections of the mobile handbook and it’s looking good.
Some notes:
The status of the sections is as follows:
The following are marked as ‘review’ and need some minor changes:
Blackberry Testing page :
I’ve applied the handbook styling to the sections with code but this needs checking that it’s still correct with those changes. Also some text before the code in the ‘remove the apps form the device’ section would be helpful.
Windows Phone Best Practice page:
This page ends very abruptly and as a non-expert reader it left me a little confused as to what to do next. Can a sentence or two be added to round this off?
Windows Phone Introductory page:
The section on accessibility is empty and needs content. The section on globalisation needs a bit more explanation.
Contribute Design Introductory Page:
The links in the ‘contributing’ section have no destinations – these need to be added.
Please let me know if you have any questions or when you’ve made any changes to draft or review documents in the comments, than I can give them a final edit. Thanks!
Thanks Rachel!
I did some cleanup of the BlackBerry Testing page, since a “pre” tag with a “code” tag in it doesn’t look fine (seemed that line height was wrong). I’ve removed the “code” tags maintaining the “pre” tags in place. Feel free to change it back if necessary.
Also added a description on the sub-section ‘remove the apps form the device’.
Thanks – looking good!
Hello community!
I’m Maxime, a software developer working on mobile apps (Android and iOS). I’ve recently joined Automattic and specifically the Mobile team! I will contribute to Android and iOS projects, I already made some small patches. You can find me here on github.
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