How we got tuenti onto your iPhone

Miguel Lara Encabo iPhone Developer / Senior FrontEnd Engineer

Now you can share your social experience with friends on Tuenti through your iPhone or iPod Touch.  We’ve integrated the entire Tuenti experience – best friends, photos, chat conversations, messages… – with an application that will allow you to keep up with all that matters, wherever you are. We’ve developed the application ourselves to imbue it with the spirit of Tuenti. We want for you to immediately recognize it as Tuenti and  be able to use it with the same ease with with you user our site.

Or biggest goal with this app has been to turn iPhone into a social tool, useful for any place and occasion. At Tuenti we use it all the time, when walking down the street, riding the subway, the bus, during meetings… Where are you going to use it? We’ve also made sure that the app is available in your preferred language: Spanish, English, Catalan, Euskera or Gallego. All you need to do is change the region of your device.

When we decided to create a Tuenti application, we asked ourselves “What do you want in an iPhone?”. Every day you’re able to do lots of stuff on Tuenti, but not all of these uses make sense in a device that fits the palm of your hand. Too may options on the application would overlap and create confusion.

So we looked at what the users were asking for: uploading photos, chatting with friends on the instant messaging system, viewing notifications… Then we began to develop an application tailored to your needs. We’ve done plenty of testing with real users before and during the development. We’ve also managed to create an application that integrates seamlessly with your way of using an iPhone or iPod Touch: clear, organized, intuitive.

We also asked ourselves: “What can the iPhone bring to Tuenti?”. Everyone within this company is excited about the mobile possibilities, the multitouch interface, the camera and GPS on iPhone and iPod Touch. That’s why we let you take one picture after another and upload them directly, use gestures to flip through them on Tuenti… But let’s not forget that this is a mobile device: the screen is small and you need to make the best of it, as with the limited battery time and the gestures that have to be interpreted. This is but the first version of the application. We have a ton of ideas for the future, and we’re always open to any suggestions you would like to give us.

You may download the application by visiting this link.