What a little point release can do...
Category iPhone Quickr App StoreOut of brilliant minds (like Julian Robichaux's) and bench time, recently re-branded as SNAPPS: Labs by the way, has come another release of SnappFiles, the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (April 3. Line up now.) client for Lotus Quickr.
SnappFiles 1.0.3, available yesterday from the App Store, is more than a point release. Julian improved several areas, including better support for self-signed SSL certificates, better handling of Office 2007 documents, added a download counter for large files, and a progressive load feature. Those are cool and useful additions. But the big news is...
We have added support for Alfresco's Open-Source ECM and IBM Content Manager (CM8) to the existing support for Quickr Domino, Quickr J2EE, and Filenet P8. So FIVE document repositories are now available and accessible from one app.
Just to clarify, when we talk about CM8, FileNet, and Alfresco, we're talking about each of those products being front-ended by the "Services for Lotus Quickr" component for that particular product. Julian has a more technical description of this on his blog. The links above all go to sites having to do with the integration, too, not the product websites.
It's actually a brilliant move for IBM to have a common front-end API that is shared across multiple products. Aside from the slight implementation differences in each case, it makes these technologies easy to work with client-side. Well, in this case, easy if you happen to bury yourself in Objective C and XCode like Julian has, and know the REST APIs fairly well, and have access to systems. That kind of easy.
But it also means that the exposure of platform-specific features - like Views in CM8 or lists in the upcoming Quickr 8.5 (public knowledge, call off the NDA hit squad) might not be as readily available if they're not exposed with the common API and could need a new app built to purpose. We can do that. Julian's brilliant a this stuff, and - because he can - Viktor has a prototype of an iPhone app that reads rich text in Quickr. Shhhhhh.
All you iPoeple, go upgrade (or get) SnappFiles today. Enjoy!
