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Posted Sep 20, 2009 by AssAKING
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 | | Hi there.
As I read the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy I accurately looked at the descriptions of the device, namely the guide, itself.
It is veeeery similar to the iPhone.
Wouldn't it be great to have a mobile version, like this one, which works with those other baby phones, that runs on the iphone, with a slim and nice userInterface, which allows one to search for anything in h2g2?
I would be very pleased if BBC would make an iPhone version of The Guide (which would be a nice name for the application).
By the way, I am an iPhone developer, and I could program that kind of app, if you (BBC) will.
I'm looking forward to getting answers from you!
Me
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| | | Subject: iPhone version of h2g2
Posted Nov 11, 2010 by Silly Willy
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I'm also interested in this and like AssAKING would love to have a go myself.
As it is right now the only way to do this would be to scrape the served HTML for the article and represent it in whatever form on the iPhone/iPad.
Does the BBC have any plan to provide an API for accessing h2g2 content? Maybe through a SOAP interface?
 <willy>
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| | | Subject: iPhone version of h2g2
Posted Oct 25, 2011 by James Casey
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| | I was thinking more of a version of h2g2 that didn't have the behind the scenes stuff - just the edited entries. Otherwise there doesn't seem a huuuuge amount of distinction between those and other articles, and therefore any point to them. So in my fantasy/near-reality app, there would be a search function and not much more. No user spaces. Some kind of feedback facility, though.
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| | | Subject: iPhone version of h2g2
Posted Nov 11, 2011 by  Vip
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| | I admit that I would quite like a version for my Android.
Mind you there's two markets here - the readers, who are more likely to want the Edited Guide/Underguide/ThePost, and those who join the site and talk and write who may want an app to post to conversations, write Entries, etc..
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| | | Subject: iPhone version of h2g2
Posted Nov 17, 2011 by Pastey: In Bacchus We Trust
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| | D'you know, strangely enough I can also build apps. Not just web development for this geek, no. In fact at the moment I'm building two native java apps for clients.
We did build a prototype h2g2 app for the bid, it didn't get used but it did work.
As Peregrin says though, a mobile friendly style sheet should sort out most access issues to h2g2, but there's more that an app itself could do. And it would have to really if we were to charge you for it to cover the costs of building and maintaining it. And those costs include my bar bill, so it won't be cheap 
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| | | Subject: iPhone version of h2g2
Posted Jul 29, 2012 by Pastey: In Bacchus We Trust
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| | At the moment we're rebuilding a lot of the back-end of the Guide, the APIs send out huge amounts of data which while okay for broadband / desktops really isn't suitable for mobile devices running potentially on 3G or possibly sporadic connections.
Plus we've got a very limited base of developers at the moment who're all volunteers, so we've having to be very careful about prioritising workloads.
It is in the pipeline though, the work we're doing for the Guide itself is being planned so that it'll also power apps.
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