Just a quick update on this project. Right now it's three of us working on bringing Oxwall functionality to iOS.  It's me in Sweden, Maxim in Sydney, Australia and Fatolu from Lagos, Nigeria. Other people have expressed an interest in the project, but have not commited themself yet.

Maxim have experience in developing for Android as well and we discussed whether we should  focus on that platform. We decided that for now we want to get the Oxwall Messenger ready for iOS and perhaps target Android on a later stage - if nobody else does it first. 

I've also been talking to the Oxwall Dev team and some other parties about collaboration regarding native mobile apps. I'm very happy to see the great amount of interest in this and a willingness to work together to make it happen. 

We will be rolling out a beta test program at the end of next week. A link will be posted here in the forum.

I've notified Thomas about it, and I'm considering to team up with them to help make these things happen. As for my thoughts so far; I've noticed that it currently is sending/receiving messages for the Private Messages plugin. I'm going to think of some algorithms and ways of how we could be able to add in the Instant Chat (and the instant chat w/video support (with the developer's permission)) to the messenger. Though of course, being a messenger it should only use one, so I think the best idea is to stick with PM's until Private Messages can be treated as Instant Messages as well.

~Jake

@ Thomas regade if it can help your project.

http://www.appsgeyser.com/getwidget/oxwall/

cordially

/Thomas

Hi everybody,

I hope you all sign up and help us make OxwallMessenger a great app and Oxwall an even better alternative for people to communicate with each other. 

Best regards,

/Thomas

This is an open source application. If you like, you can download the code, make the changes (brand, graphics, etc) compile it and submit it to Apples AppStore. Apart from that, you need to install some files on your server (our Messenger-API) and you will be ready to go.

The version we are going to submit to AppStore is an unbranded version that will be able to connect to all Oxwall sites with the Messenger-API installed. So your users will be able to buy it on AppStore and connect to your site. 

In order to get your site to work with OxwallMessenger you need to follow these steps:

1.. Copy the entire folder named webservice to the root of the folder where you installed Oxwall

2. Open the file named config.inc.php and make sure that all relevant information is properly filled in. You find all the settings you need in your main configuration (config.php) file that is located in ow_includes-folder. Note! OxwallMessenger will only work if you have not altred the db-prefix during the original installation of Oxwall. Your ow_includes/config.php MUST include the following code: define('OW_DB_PREFIX', 'ow_');`

3. Open the Xcode project and edit the Constants.m file. Look for the line where BASE_URL is defined:static NSString *BASE_URL = @"http://scalo.se/webservice"; and change the URL to your domain but make sure that the/webservice part remains intact.

4. Modify om_sites.php with your sitename and URL. Remove information about the sites you do not want your users to ba able to connect to. Make sure that the array $sites contains all the information it needs (```$site1, $site2, ... etc).

5. Compile the project and log in using your credentials. You should be ready to go!

6. Make sure that you edit all the files you need in order for the app to reflect your brand.

7. Make a build and submit to Apple AppStore using your developer account.

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