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Tyree Apps creates another plugin for TapLynx – Now you can stream audio

Monday, August 16th, 2010

The TapLynx framework is expandable: in addition to numerous features that are easily implemented, you can add your own functionality as you see fit. So in addition to featuring TapLynx-made apps on the blog we’d also like to start highlighting some useful plugins that our users have created.

The most recent plugin from Tyree Apps lets you include streaming audio in your app. This can include streams that aren’t part of a feed, or those that you need manual control over. Your sound file(s) can be continuous or finite in length. Walter Tyree created the plugin such that you can do some configuration on your side to change the UI, which utilizes the NGConfig for this purpose.

AudioStreamer also includes these features:

* Presents a picker if the user has more than 1 stream
* Tightly integrated into NGConfig plist (you may use settings like title, tab icon, color, etc.)
* Supports internationalization

The complete ReadMe is located on GitHub, where you also download the plugin: http://github.com/waltertyree/AudioStreamer
Read Walter’s blog post here: http://blog.tyreeapps.com/2010/07/adapting-audiostreamer-for-taplynx.html

TapLynx 1.4.1 is out!

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Download it here

Release notes:
-Significant performance enhancements
-Works with new Twitter authentication system. Refer to “Upgrading Twitter” included with the download, or read the documentation here.
-Programmer folks: the custom TapLynx app delegate now gets called with applicationDidReceiveMemoryWarning:, applicationWillTerminate:, applicationDidEnterBackground:, applicationDidBecomeActive:, and applicationWillResignActive:. The single parameter is a UIApplication object. These are all optional. (It was already calling applicationDidFinishLaunching:.)

Bug fixes:
-Multi-tasking support on iOS 4
-High-res thumbnail generation
-Prevent navbar image from displaying over top of buttons in the navbar
-Playing videos in iOS 4
-Display thumbnail shadows on the bottom
-Atom parser now handles inline xhtml
-Date parsing with particular date formats