Ext.tux.InstallPanel - Automatically ask to add the application to the Home Screen

[AndreaCammarata]

Hi guys,
after some weeks away from the forum cuz of too much to work, I wanna share with the community a simple but, for me, very useful Ext.Application plugin witch will allow you to display application informations like Name and Icon, and explain to the users how to "install" the application on iOS devices.
I Hope someone find this plugin useful Like I do.

You can download it from github at:
https://github.com/AndreaCammarata/Ext.tux.InstallPanel

Here a screenshot of the plugin in action.

Ext.tux.InstallPanel.png

At the moment Ext.Applications, doesn't support plugins, so I had to override it to makes this possibile.

You can find a live demo at:
http://mobile.andreacammarata.com

If you have still not added the application to the Home Screen, the plugin will do his job and ask you to do it (only on iOS devices).
As always, feedbacks, questions and suggest are always accepted.

Hope this helps.
Cheers guys

[mrsunshine]

cool Plugin!

Thanks for sharing

[AndreaCammarata]

Thank you for your feedback Nils.

[mitchellsimoens]

At first I was skeptical when I first read the title but I do think this is a great idea! Great job!

[mitchellsimoens]

Looking at the code, it may be nice to take the tpl and put it as a config option so it's easily customizable.

Also, just a quick note, in your tpl you have commas and plus signs to join your strings. Can you only use commas?

[AndreaCammarata]

At first I was skeptical when I first read the title but I do think this is a great idea! Great job!

Thank you mitchell!

Looking at the code, it may be nice to take the tpl and put it as a config option so it's easily customizable.

Also, just a quick note, in your tpl you have commas and plus signs to join your strings. Can you only use commas?

Yeah it could be a good idea to let the user customize the tpl. I will edit the plugin in this way.
About the commas: You are right, I forgot to do it.

Thanks for you suggests mitchell.

[mitchellsimoens]

Of course... seems you come up with good ideas and your execution is great! Just a dev to a dev comment

[AndreaCammarata]

Thank you mitchell, you are helping the community a lot too and your extensions are not less then mine . Your works are great! Just a dev to dev comment

[AndreaCammarata]

Released a new version of the plugin with some improvements:

- Added the panel anchor to the iPhone / iPod and iPad button, that allows to add the application to the Home Screen.
- Created a great custom bounce animation that is used to show the panel at application start up.

I think you will really like this changes.
Live demo at

http://mobile.andreacammarata.com

Let me know what you think about it.

[gkatz]

super handy - I'm sure this will be widely used...
thanks