Did anyone try to integrate a signup form for a newsletter/autoresponder system (like Mailchimp, aWeber, GetResponse,…) inside of a Corona app? I guess it is always possible with a web view, but maybe someone found a nicer way of doing it, maybe communicating directly with the API of one of these newsletter systems?
I know that there is the feature request for a mailchimp plugin, but it doesn’t have many votes, so it might not get done for a long time, I guess…
Hi. I read that feature request, but it basically has no details.
Would add additional capabilities especially suited towards business type apps. http://developer.mailchimp.com/documentation/mailchimp/
I think this is interesting, but I’m not a business app guy, so my interpretation of this “capabilities especially suited towards business type apps” may be different from the request author, yourself, and other readers.
Can you give me a top 3 or top 5 features list? i.e. What are the top 3 to 5 things you would like to be able to do with Mailchimp from within Corona?
Interested but Unclear,
Ed
PS
#1 On your list is probably: “Integrate a signup form for a newsletter/autoresponder system”.
Anything else? Also, have you seen this done in other apps? Do you have examples?
I’m asking because I think I could implement this, but I’d need to do a usage study first.
Mailchimp offers a RESTful API. This means that you can use network.request() to work with Mailchimp.
https://developer.mailchimp.com/
Rob
Hi Ed,
the main (and maybe only) feature would be of course a native signup form, including the response back to the app if the signup was successful or not (although even without that feedback I would be already quite happy!).
Other than that I cannot actually see another useful feature right now?!
I have seen a simple newsletter form like that for example in the app “one moment meditation” (OMM). Well, it just looks like the form on websites: enter your name, enter your mail address, and a send button. Nothing special, only that it is within the app and not on an outside webpage.
It would be great if you could implement this…! 
It could even be a paid plugin, I guess. An official plugin could of course be presented on the mailchimp plugin website as well.
Nils
Thanks Rob,
that looks quite good and probably it’s only a few simple lines of code… just to find the correct ones that the API is needing it might take some time for me to understand what they need…
Nils
Making a plugin for mailchimp (using their rest api) is actually on my todo list. Should be ready in a month or 2 (well at least functionality to signup )
Oh, great! Then I would save some time figuring out how the API works.
Hi Yoger Games,
did you find some time to get closer to this mailchimp plugin?
(Or anyone else…?)
Thanks,
Nils
Hi,
Apologies, have been swamped. I have not started to look at the plugin.
Hi. I read that feature request, but it basically has no details.
Would add additional capabilities especially suited towards business type apps. http://developer.mailchimp.com/documentation/mailchimp/
I think this is interesting, but I’m not a business app guy, so my interpretation of this “capabilities especially suited towards business type apps” may be different from the request author, yourself, and other readers.
Can you give me a top 3 or top 5 features list? i.e. What are the top 3 to 5 things you would like to be able to do with Mailchimp from within Corona?
Interested but Unclear,
Ed
PS
#1 On your list is probably: “Integrate a signup form for a newsletter/autoresponder system”.
Anything else? Also, have you seen this done in other apps? Do you have examples?
I’m asking because I think I could implement this, but I’d need to do a usage study first.
Mailchimp offers a RESTful API. This means that you can use network.request() to work with Mailchimp.
https://developer.mailchimp.com/
Rob
Hi Ed,
the main (and maybe only) feature would be of course a native signup form, including the response back to the app if the signup was successful or not (although even without that feedback I would be already quite happy!).
Other than that I cannot actually see another useful feature right now?!
I have seen a simple newsletter form like that for example in the app “one moment meditation” (OMM). Well, it just looks like the form on websites: enter your name, enter your mail address, and a send button. Nothing special, only that it is within the app and not on an outside webpage.
It would be great if you could implement this…! It could even be a paid plugin, I guess. An official plugin could of course be presented on the mailchimp plugin website as well.
Nils
Thanks Rob,
that looks quite good and probably it’s only a few simple lines of code… just to find the correct ones that the API is needing it might take some time for me to understand what they need…
Nils
Making a plugin for mailchimp (using their rest api) is actually on my todo list. Should be ready in a month or 2 (well at least functionality to signup )
Oh, great! Then I would save some time figuring out how the API works.
Hi Yoger Games,
did you find some time to get closer to this mailchimp plugin?
(Or anyone else…?)
Thanks,
Nils
Hi,
Apologies, have been swamped. I have not started to look at the plugin.