Facebook for iPhone

Posted: erik 5 September 2008

I am not much of a facebook user but am totally impressed after downloading the app. Facebook has made it so easy to add photos, find out what your friends are doing and chat. Native iphone apps are key because the UI stays on the phone rather than having to be rendered in the browser. Native apps also give you access to the camera and gps which allows for even more functionality.

Wordpress has a cool blogging app also. It allows you to quickly blog photos on the run etc.

I am typing this on my iphone but Drupal does not have a native app. Using the xmlrpc api it should be pretty simple to code one. Adding content to drupal from the iphone is not that easy. I had to create a new mobile user then switched the theme for that user. This allowed me to lighten up the UI and provide just the links that I will actually use. I have also formatted the node form fields to fit the browser width.