WAW - Where Are We? New application

General (non-technical) New Apps / Works in Progress
#1

Hi.
Apple has accepted my new application WAW - Where Are We?

WAW is an iPhone application that allows sharing geographical positions and messages with own friends.
Activation is free and it does not require personal information. It needs a mobile phone number if you want send SMS Alarm. It is better that the email address provided work.

WAW application uses iPhone internal GPS to retrieve the current coordinates.
Easily send your geographical position along with a brief message: all happens via Internet by using WAW server.

It is possible to choose the amount of the previously stored positions (yours or of your friends) to retrieve.
WAW application uses internal Web PopUp to show the map (Google Maps).
Google Map markers show information about geographical coordinates and personal message/note.

Mail
“Mail” button allows acquiring your current position and sending immediately these and all other previously stored coordinates to the alarm-email address you given during activation phase or modified later.

SMS
It is possible to send SMS Alarm containing automatically your name, geographical coordinates, date and time in the format accepted from Google Map, so the recipient will be immediately able to display it on Google Maps. Another way to send SMS is by WebSMS (see below).

eMail and SMS do not use native iPhone application but they are sent by using the WAW server. WAW SMS do not affect your iPhone bills.
WAW user has one free SMS to check the reliability of the service (either for SMS alarm or by WebSMS available in WAW environment). Then, if he wants, can buy low cost WAW SMS credit.

WebSMS
WAW application is able to open a Web PopUp window connected to WAW WebSMS site. There you can insert the sender name and the phone number of the recipient. You can modify the message body like you prefer (as default it contents your geographical data and time).

MapMsg
This allows sending to the server the current coordinates and a brief message/note. They can be shared with all or with a single friend. The messages will be displayed both in scrolling text area and on markers of the map. It is possible to use this function to store a short note for any geographical position.

More detailed information at
http://www.newty.it/iphonedoc/waw/WAW12eng.pdf

bye
pmaxim [import]uid: 2735 topic_id: 794 reply_id: 300794[/import]

#2

Looks nice .
How many time did you need to make this ? [import]uid: 1904 topic_id: 794 reply_id: 1745[/import]

#3

Pmaxim,

Congrats for your app. I bought it today.

Just few questions regarding your app:

1st- When you invokes google map, are you using a webpopup overlay with window size reduced to allows you to add a Close button, to return to your main screen?

2nd - The help page, i guess it is a big image file that you translate up and down, isn’t it?

Flavio. [import]uid: 3022 topic_id: 794 reply_id: 1776[/import]

#4

Hi.
@macfreaker:
About one month because I had also to write PHP code (server side of course) to manage all WAW functionalities. Then I had to check all…

@fpassa:

  1. Yes, I used a WebPopUp with window size reduced so I could put “Close” button.

  2. I created an algorithm that allows to display a stack of images with the same width, no matter if they have a different height. Then it adds two “Close” buttons, one at the top and one at the bottom.
    The function just requires the number of images then it creates all the necessary. Also it has the code for the event listener to manage the images stack (up, down and close).

If you want I could send to you the source code.
If you are from Italy you can write in italian language.
bye

pmaxim@gmail.com

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#5

Hi pmaxim,

I sent you an email yesterday, so you can share that part of the code in private if you don’t want to be published here.

Regards,

Flavio. [import]uid: 3022 topic_id: 794 reply_id: 1833[/import]

#6

@fpassa

Hi Flavio,
I sent information by email
bye
Piero [import]uid: 2735 topic_id: 794 reply_id: 1835[/import]

#7

pmaxim

I really would apreciate if you send me your code.

I can not figure out how can I resize the web overlay window

thanks

joao [import]uid: 5777 topic_id: 794 reply_id: 2211[/import]

#8

Yes, please. Share the secret of resizing the browser window popup! [import]uid: 5659 topic_id: 794 reply_id: 2213[/import]

#9

Hi all,
in the latest version of Corona environment should be the possibility to resize Web popup window (I did not study this feature because my solution has been build before).

When I create html file in the system.DocumentsDirectory, I use html “div” tag.

For example:

after html starting standard code and other html or javascript statements

at the end I put “div” tag (I can not write here the correct delimiters)

div id=‘map_canvas’ style=‘width: 320px; height: 440px’

div tag and style attribute define the size of the Web Popup window where will be displayed the Google Map.
API Google map creates new map in map_canvas “div” because html code contains

function initialize() {if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) {var map = new GMap2(document.getElementById(‘map_canvas’));
…
body onload=‘initialize()’
Without API Google Map you can use “&size=440x320” parameter in the POST or GET request to maps.google.com
In any case, if you use “div” tag and “style” attribute and your html code shows any thing in that area, the window popup should be resized.

I hope this could be useful for you.

pm
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#10

Thanks! I hadn’t even thought of using HTML to do it. Sneaky! [import]uid: 5659 topic_id: 794 reply_id: 2224[/import]

#11

Hi Pmaxim,
I have checked you app and it seems to be a great one. I have been in situation that this kind of app would help me very much.

I wonder how you use the sms application. I’m try with some codes and need to use be able to send sms message thro the cell phones network provider and not websms.

I would be very grateful if you can help me on that point.

Thanks

Nick
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#12

Hi Nick,
at the moment it is not possible, for not technical raisons, to send SMS by using internal SMS client.

Bye
pmaxim [import]uid: 2735 topic_id: 794 reply_id: 37457[/import]

#13

That’s a shame. I hope that they give us this tool asap.

Can I then ask how you solve the sms sending problem?

Thanks

Nick [import]uid: 62950 topic_id: 794 reply_id: 37914[/import]