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Now on the App Store, Download for free now!

Its main features are:

  • Content editor with formatting buttons
  • Questions are saved, with multiple versions
  • You can enter a question without Internet connection and post it later.
  • (Upload images from the photo library and straight from the camera)
  • Preview the question's body (like the preview on the desktop site)

Coming very soon:

  • Similar questions before you post

Coming soon:

  • required tags
  • post in background.

Coming later:

  • iCloud sync for saved questions
  • push notifications

License

Free app on the Apple Appstore

Download

Download from the iOS App Store for free ($0.00 ;)).

Platform

Apple iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad

Contact

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Code

Not available, by its nature it's too messy for the code to be of use to anyone.

Screenshots

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I'm interested in testing. Email me and I'll get you the UDID for my iPod touch 4 running iOS5 - james@jamesrgifford.com – jrg Oct 20 '11 at 23:24
How on earth did you get write-support working for your app? (I'm very impressed!) – George Edison♦ Oct 21 '11 at 1:40
@GeorgeEdison, thanks, it's basically a "front" for the website, but it took a lot more time to get it work as much as it is now. If the routes that the StackExchange sites use to post questions were documented, and a variation of the login page were made, it would be much easier to do write access. – Jonathan. Oct 21 '11 at 17:13
@Jonathan: Agreed! I tried this myself using a complicated mess of cookies, CSRF tokens, and HTTP POST requests - and failed. – George Edison♦ Oct 21 '11 at 17:44
@GeorgeEdison luckily iOS manages the cookies pretty well, but there issues with that even. If we could have a login page that returned a JSON page saying successful or not, and documentation of what cookies are needed we could have write access without as much effort on the server side. – Jonathan. Oct 21 '11 at 17:54
Registered for test. I have an iPhone 3GS with iOS 5 – Geoffroy Oct 22 '11 at 12:35
@Geoffroy, thanks, I've just click approve and you'll get an email soon with the link to download the app. – Jonathan. Oct 22 '11 at 12:42
@Geoffroy, sorry for the delay, the email to download it is now sent :) – Jonathan. Oct 22 '11 at 17:35
I'm not sure where to put usability suggestions, let's do it her. Could you please add a search/filter from on top of "Select a Site" page? Number of stackoverflow sites is growing, it takes some time to find a proper one. – zeliboba Apr 28 at 8:46
@zeliboba, good idea :) I've implemented this and it will be the upcoming update. – Jonathan. Apr 28 at 17:16
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I hate to rain on the parade, but programmatic writing to the Stack Exchange sites pre-write API isn't supported.

While we can't forbid you from trying, you need to be aware that the instant someone uses a similar technique nefariously we're going to come down like a sack of bricks on it.

I also know we've seen some more-successful-than-usual bots recently, in attacking them there's a good chance we'll accidentally break you in the very near-ish future.

Basically, I wouldn't suggest trying write at all right now. It's going to be very frustrating for you and your users in all likelihood.

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Ok, I thought you would say that. At the moment it seems stable. If someone does use the method wrongly, then I might just make it an editor, and not do the posting, and wait till a write API is created (hopefully I won't be old and dead by then ;)) It still gets Captchas if the users tries to post too much, and prevented from posting if the quality is too low, exactly like the site. – Jonathan. Oct 24 '11 at 17:48
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