Jump on the Smartphone Bandwagon

[horticultural_hobbit]

GYO could continue its pursuit of world domination and develop a smartphone app. There's very little out there-I've looked-and GYO could be filling a niche. Whilst there are many who will use the mag and the desktop, having a phone app would be handy.

Vive Le revolution!

[Glutton4...]

Well, let's face it, there are worse apps out there!

[horticultural_hobbit]

Turns out they did!

[chris]

There's a mag available for apple devices on the app store.. If that's what you mean?

[horticultural_hobbit]

That's the one. Still prefer the paper version.

[salome2001]

android please!!!!!

[SarzWix]

Seconding the above ^^^. iPhones are big panties, and there are much more people with Android phones anyway...

[Chef_uk]

I was thinking of giving it a go last year using the google app inventor. My idea was to utilise the barcode scanner whereby you scanned your seed packets which would add the info to your grow list. It would then use the locate function when you press a button once stood at your patch so to get your position via GPS/wifi signals which in turn would set up the app for your location so things like climate etc. It would then alert you as time goes on as to what you should be doing, what the seedlings should be looking like, examples of pests etc and give weather alert warnings.

I only got as far as the idea though as not all seed packets had barcodes lol. Feel free to make this happen though I would certainly use it.

[GreenTricky]

Could you add compatibility with tapatalk to the forum, makes forums far easier to read and post on from a phone

[Alison]

GYO could continue its pursuit of world domination and develop a smartphone app. There's very little out there-I've looked-and GYO could be filling a niche. Whilst there are many who will use the mag and the desktop, having a phone app would be handy.

Vive Le revolution!

Do you mean a mobile based version of this site or some other grow your own app that somehow works like the mag? If the latter, you'll need to use smaller words with me as I'm not sure what you're on about.

[Feral007]

Well I like chef UK idea of standing in the plot and having your phone tell you when to plant what. Excepting for the fact that I'm in a mobile blackspot here. I do have a few places in the paddock where the phone rings - so I would have to only plant in those areas I guess.

I'd like them to add an app to tell me how much horse manure I need to put on things too - in fact, can I just plant where the horses poop?

Don't have an android yet but that will be next I guess, and if the phone has to be smart then I'd like it to be smart about gardening, or outwitting teenagers. Can't be bothered with useless apps, enough useless chaps without adding more to the mix