GoodBarber has developped 25 connectors (and counting) to retrieve your articles, photos, videos, events, sounds, tweets, …well, you get the idea :) Use them to put all your content at your users's fingertips. The idea is simple. From your backend, different sections can be created in your app. Each section corresponds to a type of content. Behind each section is linked a source.  Here is the list of the supported external services. Keep in mind that this list is growing.

Changelog for this Tuesday update :   - New Sound / Soundcloud section - New URL template for Custom sections, which allows to display a web page - You can now listen to songs from Podcast/Soundcloud sections in background - You can now switch/play/pause between songs of a Podcast/Soundcloud section with the iOS background controls - Bug fix : images are now displayed correctly on the first launch on non-Retina devices - Bug fix : the dates are now displayed correctly in the content lists - Bug fix : the Custom sections margins are now correct - Bug fix : the toolbar buttons in Video sections are now activated/deactivated by the backoffice - Bug fix : it is now possible to exit the Mail Composer when you click on a mailto link in Custom section - Bug fix : Linkedin & Tumblr sharing are now working with YouTube videos - Bug fix : the thumbnails are now loaded correctly in the Article & Videos sections / Template 5   Don't forget to re-build your app to apply these changes :)

Wedding is one of the 50+ themes available in your GoodBarber backend. Use it as a starting point to create your Beautiful App.  

With GoodBarber, everybody can create Beautiful Apps. But, being able to provide a software empowering everybody to create a Beautiful App is a long and ambushed way.  Our technical team is composed by passionate people. Talented mobile developers, experienced network and system engineers, mighty web developers. To build and run GoodBarber, everyday we have to solve complex problems, mainly due to the industrial trait of our product. GoodBarber powers millions of apps, installed, updated, and used all day long. We would like to share with you - the geek ones ;) - the solutions we find in order to face the issues we come across every day. Every article published under the "Engineering" serie will deal with an accurate topic regarding iOS, Android, Python, etc.. It could also talk about a generic process that was set up to maintain GoodBarber's industrial trait. In this blog, over time, and each time we can do it, we will try to explain what's behind the scene and share GoodBarber's bag of tricks. Stay tuned!

Changelog for this Tuesday update :   - New Live section (audio & video) - You can now add a "All categories" filter in the advanced settings of your sections - You can now re-order your filters with a drag-and-drop in the advanced settings of your sections - The links are now active into the Facebook sections - The action buttons are now dynamically aligned into the Photos sections, Template 3 - The Credit page of the Settings section has now an embedded style - Bug fix : pictures are now displayed correctly in Article sections (detail view) - Bug fix : outgoing links in articles content are now interpreted - Bug fix : authentication and sharing issue fixed with LinkedIn and Tumblr - Bug fix : fixed a wrong label into the Retweet action confirmation alert - Bug fix : the https links are now interpreted - Bug fix : the outgoing links are now interpreted in the Credit page of the Settings sections - Bug fix : there is now a download link in the "Recommend app" sharing action of the Settings sections - Beginning of the work toward the GoodBarber 2 migration for existing customer   Don't forget to re-build your app to apply these changes :)

Bloggers, this theme is for you. Use it to unify your web presence. It was especially crafted for those publishing a high volume of content : news, videos, photos, podcasts, etc. Looking at the root view, you see that our designer chose a tab bar for the navigation.  But you notice that Blow has also a sub-navigation, with a "circle band", at the top of the screen. Very useful to offer a clear navigation among a lot of content. In the detailed view, the tool bar is at the bottom. Select the option you want to propose. In this exemple, comments, sharing, font size and add to faves are enable. Blow is one of the 50+ themes available in your GoodBarber backend. Use it as a starting point to create your Beautiful App .

Changelog for this Tuesday update :   - rotating the iPhone when playing a video rotates the video too - new french translations added :           - "Pull to refresh"           - Post comment - bug fixed when displaying comments - bug fixed whrn displaying the "Send" button in the comments page - better management of hours format (20h instead of 8h) - comments can be posted in a WMaker > Video section - better management of urls in the video section - bug fixed whrn connection social networks - you can now add advertisement in your app           - GoodBarber banners           - MobPartner banners           - Admob banners           - Swelen banners           - GoodBarber splashscreen           - AdMob splashscreen           - Swelen splashscreen To have this changes applied to your app, you need to re-build it.

This is Tuesday ... time to update the Beautiful Apps Engine. If you build your app after this update, here are the new features you will have : - Increased thumbnail size for the following templates:      - Article - Template 1      - Article - Template 2      - Article - Template 3      - Article - Template 4      - Article - Template 5      - Video - Template 1      - Video - Template 2      - Video - Template 3      - Video - Template 4      - Video - Template 5      - Podcasts      - Event - Bug fixed when displaying comments: troncated comment + comment number deleted - Bug fixed when loading Instagram comments - Now showing Instagram comments on Photo - Template 2 - Crash fixed when displaying Instagram comments - "Force update" action in the Setting section + alert - "Flush cache" action in the Settings section + alert - Bug fixed when recommanding the app from the Settings section - Bug fixed in the UGC section. You can now deactivate authentication, via the backend Now, let's create Beautiful Apps!

Each Tuesday, we update the Beautiful Apps Engine. So, here is the changelog of what's is newly available in your apps: - better thumbnail quality in the lists views - better localisation for date formats - error message displayed when it is impossible to retrieve comments - fixing bug when cropping thumbanails in Sound section - fixing seperator color settings in the menu (with swipe mode) - fixing graphical bugs in Twitter section (troncated Twitter account, date labels added) - better handling of external links in detail pages - better error management in all connectors - action button can be sorted (sharing, bookmark, comment, ...) in detail pages (you need to edit the JSON file to do so. Advanced users feature) - fixing background color bug in Other section (with TabBar mode) - fixing bug to display the right color in a cell of the swipe mode, when selected - reseting red badges received when pushed, after opening the app - enabling comments in the Photo/Instagram section - several grahicals renderings improvements - IPA file size is smaller - several minor improvements To have this changes applied to your app, you need to re-build it.

We wish you a happy new year. As we say in Corsican: "Pace è Salute", standing for "Peace and Health" Let's make Beautiful Apps ... and more in 2013 It's just the beginning :)

It's been exactly once week now, since we have widely opened GoodBarber 2 beta to the public. We are very exited because, everyday, many of you try it and give their feedback. It helps us to speed up the pace to stabilize GoodBarber 2, so that it is rolled out earlier than expected. Thanks to your experienced tests, we were able to publish last tuesday the first update of GoodBarber 2. Here is the changelog of what's new :

Hello GoodBarbers! It's been a long wait but now ... time has come :) In a few clicks, you will be able to test GoodBarber V2. This edition is called "Beautiful Apps" because we focused like no other on design. We hope you will enjoy the brand new back end, and get the inspiration to create the app that stands out from the crowd. Before you start, keep in mind that GB V2 is still in beta. We look forward to reading your feedback. Now, let's have fun and create your first Beautiful App ! www.goodbarber.com Enjoy ;) The GoodBarber Team

We know that those of you who have registered for the Beta Goodbarber V2 can't wait to try it out. But be aware that it's just as unbearable for the whole team because we really look forward to your first impressions! So to help you you while waiting, we offer those 2 videos of demo made ​​by our friend FredZone one introducing the applications, the other one the backoffice. Here is also a link to Kriisiis.fr article showing GoodBarber among other projects announced at Web'12. Hoping to whet your appetite,  Rendez-vous at the opening of the BETA. Just few more days to go :)

Announced by Jerome in his previous note, GoodBarber is almost ready to release its version 2. So what's best to announce and introduce it than participating in the essential annual meeting for companies and start-up of the web, Web '12. For those who do not know this event, Web'12 is three days of conference, demonstrations and meetings with giants such as Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Google, ect. It's also where tomorrow's Internet is imagined. You understand that it is a very important event that we absolutely wanted to be part of.

As discussed with many of you during the GoodBarber Summer Tour 2012, by the end of this year, GoodBarber will be pushed to the next level ! Today, we open the private beta of GoodBarber #V2. You can request an invite from this page to participate in : http://www.goodbarber.com/new/ Time has come to create Beautiful Apps ;)

GoodBarber now has a plug-in for users of the Content Management System (CMS) SPIP. This plug-in%28computing%29 , when installed on your server, allows you to generate a pro forma XML feed. You specify the source stream in your GoodBarber back office. Import your site contents to your mobile application, and provide an improved user experience compared to a standard RSS feed.

Mobiles Magazine regularly publishes its reference guide for the best iPhone apps. The latest issue recognizes 7 of GoodBarber’s own applications.

In recent months, GoodBarber has been working closely with Xtone, a company from Tokyo that specializes in the design, development, content operation, and content managing systems for the web and mobiles. Xtone and its sister company Gaps Mobile use GoodBarber to launch many Japanese companies’ mobile apps.

On Thursday, July 5th, we look forward to seeing you in Paris for GoodBarber Café. This is an opportunity to meet face-to-face and to discuss mobiles while having breakfast.

We are very pleased and rather proud to announce that last week, the ITespresso.fr app climbed to the top of the free application rankings for iPhones in the App Store. The ITexpresso.fr app is of course a GoodBarber application, hence our pride. For those who don’t know, ITespresso is a reference site for the latest information technology developments. We take this opportunity to congratulate to the team at NetMediaEurope . Wait no longer, download ITespresso in the App Store .

This summer, we are launching a road show to meet with our current and potential users. Follow the hashtag #GoodBarberSummerTour2012 on Instagram and Twitter throughout the summer. Yesterday, Mathieu , Dumè and I have boarded at the port of Bastia, towards Rome. This is the first step of the #GoodBarberSummerTour2012. We're coming to meet with our users and with web and mobile professionals. Operation evangelization. At the moment, the summer program is as follows:      - Rome, June 21st and 22d      - Paris, July 4th and 5th      - London, July 31st and August 1st If other dates and venues are fixed, we will definitely let you know. Meanwhile, if you're around, book your agenda, we'd love to meet with you. You can reach us on Twitter @GoodBarber. #GoodBarberSummerTour2012

The GoodBarber application for iPhone is available in the App Store since few hours.

About a month ago, we sent more than 500 GoodBarber magnets with thank you postcards signed by the entire team to 12 different countries, on 4 continents, in the Atlantic (Caribbean) and Pacific (Polynesia). The target: our user community. Here’s a summary of the operation stages with no less than a month and a half for preparation: card design and production, sign each card by every team member (it’s not an easy task), purchase stamps for 3 different destinations (France, Europe, rest of the world), manual preparation of envelopes, and shipping.