Bitongo | iOS development and mobile games

Integrating a commenting module in your App – Part 1

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Gable

When trying to build a community for your app, you have to go with every possibility to help your users interact easily with each other. Implementing your own, full-fledged commenting / voting system might be a tedious work and it might be worth it to integrate existing solutions into your app. This is what we decided to do with our latest product, Fontify. We have used Disqus on the Fontify website where users can read / post comments for every sketch they see and they are also able to share the pictures via social websites, all through the services provided by Disqus.

In today’s iDevBlogADay article I would like to describe how we integrated Disqus into our native iOS App, using their latest REST API.

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Fontify Marketing Analysis

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Gable

Introduction

As this is the first post I write for iDevBlogADay, I would like to begin with a very brief introduction. I am Gabor Furedi, co-founder of Bitongo together with Ferenc Vehmann. We have been developing for the iOS platform since the App Store debut in mid-2008, and as usual we were doing that in our spare time while making a living with a day job. We jumped into full-time indie mode earlier this year as we were really eager to see what we can do when we focus our efforts on our own business.

I have been reading the iDevBlogADay entries since its beginning and the community seems great. I truly hope I will be able to participate in it in a meaningful manner.

Our blog was intended to be used for posting product-related news and development articles. As you can see the latter category lacks but with the participation in iDevBlogADay we have the perfect incentive to start writing the articles we have already had in our mind.

Fontify

For an opening post, I decided to talk about the marketing strategy we followed for our latest app, Fontify and I will analyze the effectivity of the different marketing channels used. Before jumping into the topic of the day, I would like to tell you a bit about the latest app of ours but feel free to skip this section if you are only interested in the analysis.

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Fontify is released on the App Store

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Gable

We are extremely excited to announce that Fontify is now available on the App Store as a free app! It is a universal application so you can enjoy it both on your iPad or your iPhone / iPod Touch.

Create amazing sketches with a few well-placed characters and share them with your friends! Get inspiration from our online gallery and simply continue editing pictures you like. You can even print your sketches in any size you want without quality loss.

Fontify iOS App Trailer

For more information about Fontify, please visit the official website at http://www.fontify.it

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Green Wave around the globe

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Gable

Green Wave events

Green Wave is truly becoming a global phenomenon! After going through our archived traffic event reports we put together this quick visualization that shows, from LA to Brisbane, people are reporting traffic events to help each others commute.

Big thanks to all contributors! More info about Green Wave here.

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Fontify beta started

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Gable

We have just uploaded the first build of our beta release for Fontify. Those who have registered through Testflight and provided their device IDs can already download the app and see what we have created. We can’t wait to see their sketches in our online gallery over at the Fontify website!