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Posted by: fatstrat Aug 29 2009, 06:08 PM

I think it'd be awesome if you could access the forum and maybe even select videos from the library on your iPhone. Any thoughts?

Posted by: Murloc Aug 29 2009, 07:08 PM

Does anyone know how to make an Iphone app?

Posted by: wrk Aug 29 2009, 07:31 PM

You can access the forum with the browser of the iPhone. There are some apps which can connect to different forum types. GMC's IP.board is supported, but the one i tried didn't worked really well ...

The iPhone does not support flash, so the lessons are not accessible ... but embedded youtube links are working.

Posted by: Emir Hot Aug 29 2009, 08:37 PM

That would definitely be cool to have.

Posted by: fatstrat Aug 29 2009, 10:56 PM

yea a native iphone app would be awesome. there has to be a couple developers that also happen to play guitar and study at GMC it would also open up a world of possibilities to include more members and more instructors to expand our guitar minds

Posted by: purple hayes Aug 29 2009, 11:20 PM

That's your biggest hurdle.

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Aug 29 2009, 11:24 PM

It would be a great feature for some future updates for sure

Posted by: fatstrat Aug 29 2009, 11:37 PM

hopefully that problem gets solved in the near future. maybe in the next iphone generation? i just wanna share the gmc love!

Posted by: Santiago Diaz Garces Aug 29 2009, 11:47 PM

I think it will be awesome. Not only to access GMC everywhere, it will be the only guitar site with Iphone supporting.

Posted by: wrk Aug 29 2009, 11:58 PM

I'm afraid the decision came from Apple to not support flash. Adobe is working since a while on an iPhone flash plugin ... didn't followed the latest news thought.

Anyway, the iPhone SDK supports video streaming, so it should be possible to build an app to search and display videos. The lessons are already streamed in mp4 format which is supported as well, ... GMC would need to provide an interface for that and some motivated developer can start working ... ...

Posted by: fatstrat Aug 30 2009, 04:39 PM

Looks like we have the tools...we just need the builder any takers?

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Aug 30 2009, 05:03 PM

Ehehe this would be so cool to have an Iphone GMC app where you can access all the major GMC features I don't know how hard is to develop one though, and flash streaming can be a problem...

Posted by: Marc_Maiden Aug 30 2009, 05:09 PM

i can watch GMC lessons on my blackberry web browser.....decent quality and stream speed

Posted by: Mygas Aug 30 2009, 06:41 PM

Actually, development for iPhone is pretty easy...given that you have some for of Mac. A buddy of mine and I were going to start a small iPhone game/utility app company...but he's since had life issues and we never really got anything started due to neither of us having a mac.

As far as $$$...it'd still cost someone $100 to be licensed as an iPhone App developer and be allowed to download the SDK. But once that's there...and you have a Mac to compile on...it's just like any other programming language.

And about the Flash support...I believe it's because Apple is working on a proprietary "flash-like" protocol. But that's just speculation in the IT world right now.

lol it's funny, I hadn't posted this topic cause I thought it already was...never actually bothered to look though 8(

Posted by: wrk Aug 30 2009, 06:58 PM

Actually to download the iPhone SDK is free and the main development can be done to use the integrated iPhone simulator in Xcode, but you need to pay the $100 if you want to transfer the app to your iPhone for testing and later to access the app store.

Posted by: Santiago Diaz Garces Aug 30 2009, 08:00 PM

We have to make possible that app. It would be totally revolutionary I think

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Aug 31 2009, 01:00 AM

It would definitely be cool. Not sure if Apple would allow since it is for commercial use, but I'm not an expert, possibly I'm mistaken about it.

Posted by: blindwillie Aug 31 2009, 06:50 AM

Yes that would be so cool. As said flash is going to be a problem though.

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Aug 31 2009, 11:19 AM

Flash is going to be a problem on 3.0 version of OS for iPhone, and for the iPhone 3GS and bellow versions, but for a second generation they will have the flash supported probably.

There is only one smartphone that enables Flash, since the company has signed contract with Adobe, and that is HTC Hero (with Android OS).

Posted by: Toni Suominen Aug 31 2009, 11:49 AM

That's a cool idea

Posted by: Vasilije Vukmirovic Aug 31 2009, 08:01 PM

Really really progressive idea!
Too bad I don't have Iphone!

Posted by: utak3r Sep 24 2009, 09:17 AM

Hey guys - I was thinking pretty much about the same - but for Windows Mobile devices... any thoughts about this? Do you even have such ones? Is it worth of work?

Posted by: audiopaal Sep 24 2009, 10:18 AM

I believe you can watch GMC videos on a Blackberry, so that's also an option

Posted by: utak3r Sep 24 2009, 10:28 AM

Adobe Flash codecs are built-in into Windows Mobile 6.5 and one can install them also on older versions.

Posted by: wrk Sep 24 2009, 05:03 PM

Not sure about the latest updates, but i think these devices use the flash lite player (?), which in the past did not support all flash functionality .. i hope i'm wrong, because it would be awesome ...

Anyone here can see GMC lessons with his mobile?

Posted by: Marcus Siepen Sep 26 2009, 09:44 AM

interesting idea, but since I have a google phone I would prefer an app for that one