The Dave Walker / CartoonChurch app, enabling you to look at my cartoons on the iPhone and iPod Touch, is now available. If that link doesn’t work type ‘CartoonChurch’ or ‘Dave Walker’ into the search box on iTunes and you’ll find it. The app is free, and there are no advertisements. It was originally going to be called ‘CartoonChurch’, but that word is too long to fit under an iPhone icon so it shows up on the screen as ‘DaveWalker’. it is compatible with iPhone and iPod touch (2nd generation) and requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later if that means anything to you.
Frequently asked questions
What is on this app?
Essentially it is the latest updates from five of my various projects, namely:
- The 10 latest posts from this blog
- The 10 latest CartoonChurch.com cartoons
- The 10 latest We Blog Cartoons cartoons
- The 10 latest Dullest blog in the world entries
- And, just to fill up the space, my latest Twitter posts (I’d say about 10). How interesting.
How do I view the cartoons?
You can resize them, but if you tilt the screen 90 degrees into a landscape view you generally don’t have to. You can look at the sites in your browser, e-mail cartoons or post them to Twitter by clicking the icon in the top right hand corner. All marvellous innovations. When looking at an individual cartoon the up/down buttons make moving on to the next one really easy. Touch the screen to make the navigation bar at the top appear and disappear.
I’m having problems with the page not resizing in landscape mode
Yes, there is an occasional bug when using the app in landscape mode and using the back button – it sometimes remains at the wrong width. If at any point you’re not getting the full width turning the app back into portrait mode and then back again into landscape always rectifies it. Clicking one of the other five categories sometimes does. Unfortunately I don’t know whether anything can be done about this.
Why an iPhone app?
Well, I tend not to like to write about electronic purchases too often as it makes me sound rather materialistic (which I am, but no-one must know), but since Christmas we’ve been rather getting into the world of the iPod Touch. In the New Year a couple of well-known blogs (Seth Godin and Guy Kawasaki) were offering special codes for discounted apps on AppMakr, so I thought I’d give it a go.
Do you have plans to make a Blackberry version?
If I can find a way of doing it inexpensively. Did try one template for a mobile version but couldn’t make it work.
Is it easy to make my own app?
The process has not been without considerable complications – I will write more about this shortly.
Below: Page in iTunes.
I hope those of you with the technology to do so enjoy the app. If you like it and felt like rating it favourably and/or writing a review that would of course help me. Apologies to those without iPhones or iPods – this is, I’m sure, a deeply irritating page.