PhoneGap: Open Source Tool for Building 'Native' Mobile Apps (iPhone, Android) with Javascript

mc wrote: post #3

Funny timing. It appears that Apple is rejecting iPhone apps built with PhoneGap. http://groups.google.com/group/phonegap/browse_thread/thread...

A bunch of phonegap apps have gotten in to the app store: http://phonegap.com/projects

Maybe that person just got unlucky and had a bad app tester.

Re: PhoneGap: Open Source Tool for Building 'Native' Mobile Apps (iPhone, Android) with Javascript

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Post by smallpaul » Wed, Mar 25, 2009, 3:13 AM UTC

mc wrote: post #3

Funny timing. It appears that Apple is rejecting iPhone apps built with PhoneGap. http://groups.google.com/group/phonegap/browse_thread/thread...

If you follow the thread to the end, you'll see that the guy renamed some variables, resubmitted and got accepted.

PhoneGap is open source. There is no "signature" that they can use to know that you incorporated code from it. They would have to disavow their own APIs in order to stop people from using it.

Re: PhoneGap: Open Source Tool for Building 'Native' Mobile Apps (iPhone, Android) with Javascript

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Post by eob » Wed, Mar 25, 2009, 3:28 AM UTC

Are they just wrapping web apps inside a WebKit window with a special javascript library?

It'd be interesting to see a bake-off between the OtherLanguage->iPhoneApp frameworks. The one by 380 North looks particularly interesting, though I'm not quite sure why you'd ditch Objective-C for a language that looks almost exactly like it (until they build in converters for other platforms..)

Re: PhoneGap: Open Source Tool for Building 'Native' Mobile Apps (iPhone, Android) with Javascript

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Post by SingAlong » Wed, Mar 25, 2009, 5:12 AM UTC

Has anyone tried Android apps with PhoneGap? How does it fare?

Re: PhoneGap: Open Source Tool for Building 'Native' Mobile Apps (iPhone, Android) with Javascript

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Post by fatbat » Wed, Mar 25, 2009, 6:37 AM UTC

Wow, awesome! I hope PhoneGap continues expanding the SDK!

Sucks that Apple is so uptight about this though. Reminds me of the clueless FaceBook staff that rejected most of my ad buys but then a week later I see an influx of ads that are similar if not worse (irrelevant/shady)!

To quote Kotaku, "...the phone itself might be developer friendly, but Apple is not". ( http://kotaku.com/5181471/apple-putting-the-squeeze-on-iphon... )

Re: PhoneGap: Open Source Tool for Building 'Native' Mobile Apps (iPhone, Android) with Javascript

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Post by davidw » Wed, Mar 25, 2009, 9:28 AM UTC

eob wrote: post #6

Are they just wrapping web apps inside a WebKit window with a special javascript library? It'd be interesting to see a bake-off between the OtherLanguage->iPhoneApp frameworks. The one by 380 North looks particularly interesting, though I'm not quite sure why you'd ditch Objective-C for a language that looks almost exactly like it (until they build in converters for other platforms..)

> Are they just wrapping web apps inside a WebKit window with a special javascript library?

I'd be curious to hear what they're doing too.

It's doubtful you'll see Hecl for the iphone, as I'm not interested in platforms that are that restricted, don't allow interpreters, and in any case, it's based on Java. It does, however, run on all the zillions of J2ME phones that are out there, even if they're not the 'latest and greatest' thing.

Re: PhoneGap: Open Source Tool for Building 'Native' Mobile Apps (iPhone, Android) with Javascript

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Post by AndreCharland » Wed, Mar 25, 2009, 7:23 PM UTC

SingAlong wrote: post #7

Has anyone tried Android apps with PhoneGap? How does it fare?

there are a number of Android apps built with PhoneGap. Admittedly the Android code is not as polished as the iPhone project at this point. But we're working on it!