You may have noticed that I started iStack (boringest name ever don't you think ;)) but it never got anywhere especially as Six to Eight is much better than I could ever make iStack.
However I decided to try out iPad apps and, much like the first iStack, I'm doing purely for education (Ie I'm making it to learn about objective-c programming etc) and should anything come out of it that will be a bonus.
My plan is to have 3 columns (Landscape only) each column is stackSite, so you see questions from your 3 favourite stacksites on the first page, then after tapping a question the other 2 columns slide out and you get the question. This I've already implemented, but it's not much use of the API.
This is the current, and hopefully final, look of the front screen, the app will remember which stack site you have chosen so the user will only see this screen the first time, but they can always go back and change it: (ignore the site selection heading on the left column, that's gone since the screenshot)
Current features:
- 3 columns
- Link to StackPrinter (if I'm allowed to)
- Email link to question, open in safari and copy link actions
Planned:
- Local Favourites
- Watching (a list of questions your watching, like sort term favourites, with eventually push notifications)
- Facebook/Twitter integration.
- Safari bookmarklet to open question in iStack from safari
So what other features would you look for in an iPad app (if any ;) )