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WWDC 2008 News: eBay shows off auction app for the iPhone

2008-06-09
and we're here to show you options on the iphone so the iphone has quickly become a number one mobile device for accident even the modest fire experience is great we want to bring the best possible mobile experience to our customers so five weeks ago we decided to create this application and the ease of developing with the iphone sdk allow us to rapidly integrate with ebay web services so you can see here we're on the home screen you've got easy access to search we show the users personal avatar and a summary of their activity whether you're a buyer or a seller you can easily see if you're winning or losing and how much you've been selling so let's search from the new Wii Fit where the hottest selling items on ebay and add it to our watch list these are all lot of listings you're going to see running on ebay production servers you just touch on an item to bring up the details you can see the picture all the bid amounts and everything like that if the buyer wants to see more information we've also integrated WebKit into the application so they can view the sellers HTML description going back it's just one easy touch to add this to our watch list and if we go back to the home screen let it refresh we now see we're watching one additional item but we've also been a bid on something just touch there and it'll pop us over to my ebay where we can get more details here are the red and green bit amounts let us see what we're winning or losing let's try to win that item that we're currently losing by placing a higher bid fittings really easy just enter in your bid amount confirm it and the bid is instantly placed on our system the confirmation screen slides in and hey it looks like we're back in the lead finally I'd like to take a look at one last item on my watch list it's a 12 and a half million dollar home in golf course in Mexico let's take a look at the photos to see if it's really worth it so here the film strip viewer allows us to see all of the photos you can scroll through them we can zoom in and out using the standard touch controls to see more details looks pretty nice but I don't think I'm going to place a bid on it thats it for our demo it's been a great experience developing for the iphone the ebay app will be available for free on the App Store launches thank you and happy bidding
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