Write your app in HTML5, upload it and get back app-store ready apps
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Write your app in HTML5, upload it and get back app-store ready apps
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Re: Write your app in HTML5, upload it and get back app-store ready apps
#2I think PhoneGap is doing great work, they're obviously getting better, and I don't mean to diminish what others have poured so much effort into.
But, are there any successful apps made with PhoneGap? Writing apps in HTML5 is constantly hyped, but there isn't a single HTML app out of the dozens on my iPhone except Netflix. PhoneGap's app gallery doesn't have a single app I've heard of.
(The Netflix app isn't too pleasant, either, unfortunately.)
Re: Write your app in HTML5, upload it and get back app-store ready apps
#3Is there like a demo app with code I can look at? Thanks.
Re: Write your app in HTML5, upload it and get back app-store ready apps
#4I think PhoneGap is doing great work, they're obviously getting better, and I don't mean to diminish what others have poured so much effort into. But, are there any successful apps made with PhoneGap? Writing apps in HTML5 is constantly hyped, but there isn't a single HTML app out of the dozens on my iPhone except Netflix. PhoneGap's app gallery doesn't have a single app I've heard of. (The Netflix app isn't too plea…
The new LinkedIn and OkCupid apps are primarily HTML5 based. Not quite the same, but every new release of the Facebook app seems to have more of its existing views replaced by HTML5 counterparts.
Re: Write your app in HTML5, upload it and get back app-store ready apps
#5I may be ignorant, but to write a complex app, don't you need HTML5 AND a mobile javascript framework like JQuery Mobile and Sencha? Or does HTML5 handle that too? If it does require a Javascript framework, that's when the quality deteoriates... I think imitating the look and feel of native apps is easy. Making the performance smooth on the other hand is hard.
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#6https://build.phonegap.com/docs/ios-builds
"Since PhoneGap Build uses Apple's standard development process to build applications, you will need to sign up for their developer program to build iOS applications on PhoneGap Build. You will also need a Mac to configure your certificate and provisioning profile."
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Re: Write your app in HTML5, upload it and get back app-store ready apps
#7How much effort needed to convert my single html with few javascript files to be app-store eligible. I think there is more to just using the phonegap
http://www.mockuptiger.com/a/123wireframe.php
Re: Write your app in HTML5, upload it and get back app-store ready apps
#8I may be ignorant, but to write a complex app, don't you need HTML5 AND a mobile javascript framework like JQuery Mobile and Sencha? Or does HTML5 handle that too? If it does require a Javascript framework, that's when the quality deteoriates... I think imitating the look and feel of native apps is easy. Making the performance smooth on the other hand is hard.
I'd say they're both hard. As an interface designer who works on iOS apps, it always pains me to see a web technology mobile app that's trying to look like it was built with UIKit but it's ever-so-slightly off. Some pixels are broken, text looks wrong, padding is off. I know why it's alluring, but I'd much prefer to see them craft their own interface style without aping Apple's UIKit look and feel.
If someone is trying really hard to emulate a native app's interface but without native technologies, I think they're already doing it wrong. Focus on the UX, not taking a different framework's exact visual style and copying it pixel for pixel.
Re: Write your app in HTML5, upload it and get back app-store ready apps
#9I think PhoneGap is doing great work, they're obviously getting better, and I don't mean to diminish what others have poured so much effort into. But, are there any successful apps made with PhoneGap? Writing apps in HTML5 is constantly hyped, but there isn't a single HTML app out of the dozens on my iPhone except Netflix. PhoneGap's app gallery doesn't have a single app I've heard of. (The Netflix app isn't too plea…
The new LinkedIn and OkCupid apps are primarily HTML5 based. Not quite the same, but every new release of the Facebook app seems to have more of its existing views replaced by HTML5 counterparts.
I'm fairly certain that the Facebook iPhone app does not UIWebViews to render anything. Their fast-scrolling tableviews are painstakingly crafted from scratch, natively, and (I believe) still use Joe Hewitt's framework for complex view rendering. I know some guys on the Facebook iPhone app team and they're die-hard Cocoa developers, I can't see them ever saying "screw it" and using a UIWebView with HTML.
Re: Write your app in HTML5, upload it and get back app-store ready apps
#10I think PhoneGap is doing great work, they're obviously getting better, and I don't mean to diminish what others have poured so much effort into. But, are there any successful apps made with PhoneGap? Writing apps in HTML5 is constantly hyped, but there isn't a single HTML app out of the dozens on my iPhone except Netflix. PhoneGap's app gallery doesn't have a single app I've heard of. (The Netflix app isn't too plea…
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