[moneydance] iPod Touch

[Sean Reilly]

On Jul 16, 2008, at 20:39 , Rich Goodwin wrote:

> When Java runs on it?  MD is java-based so ... in theory that should  
> be
> all you need.  I would expect the user interface to handle the
> uniqueness of the Multi-touch screen and provide inputs to MD
> appropriately.
>
> Does it not work?  Sean would likely be more than willing to use your
> phone for lengthy testing... ;-)

I've got an iPod touch running the 2.0 firmware and already have a  
developer certificate from Apple for writing iPhone/iPod apps.  I see  
three approaches to working with Moneydance on the iPhone:
  1) xpenser + jott -> Moneydance extension.  This allows a simple way  
to record an expense via xpenser.com which can interact with jott.com,  
twitter.com, SMS, email and IM.  The nice part about this is that it  
works with the 98% of people who don't (yet) have iPhones.  See this  
thread for more info:  http://moneydance.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1208303387

  2) sync with a third party iPhone app.  The beta palmsync extension  
to Moneydance used to work with the SplashMoney Palm app, but I was  
never completely happy with the result.  SplashMoney is now available  
as an iPhone app, but I think the synchronization works in a different  
way.

  3) write a custom iPhone app.  Given what is on the iPhone App Store  
now I think I could come up with something pretty competitive.  The  
trick would be synchronizing it with Moneydance, which would have to  
be done over the local network or a secure "drop box" type of system  
on moneydance.com.

I think that #3 is the most interesting option from a development  
point of view, but #1 is the most widely applicable and therefore more  
appealing from a business sense.

Thanks,
Sean

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