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Re: Show HN: Automatically convert a website to Android and iOS

#41

Exactly what I was looking for. I tried using PhoneGap but installing all this SDKs is a pain. PS: I can't even subscribe to your newsletter, everything seems broken: http://i.imgur.com/Ss42bJE.png

So I tried it and the result is amazing considering how little time it took to make it: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-HMbRacJQ7WQ/U5IdwmumEzI/A...

Re: Show HN: Automatically convert a website to Android and iOS

#42
Really curious about how app.io is able to do this so smoothly, seems like they are running iOS virtualization over canvas vnc. It's so freaking smooth I feel like I'm using an actual app.

I would love to know how they are able to pull this off. I tried the ipad as well and it's smooth! Very little lag.

Re: Show HN: Automatically convert a website to Android and iOS

#46
This is certainly interesting, but it duplicated my own nav on my webpage. Don't know how it could be smart enough to detect that even though I have a very standard setup. In any case, I suppose it would be good for a quick and dirty start to your app and you could flesh the rest out later? I wonder who will actually end up using this for real.

Re: Show HN: Automatically convert a website to Android and iOS

#47
Apple have a rule against making apps that "are simply websites bundled as apps". You should probably mention that somewhere on the website to avoid having a bunch of people pay for a developer account only to get their generated application rejected by Apple.

Re: Show HN: Automatically convert a website to Android and iOS

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What if there was a standard created for the markup, so that the parser would know what the links were supposed to do and how the content shoud be presented, because there would be structured data everywhere specific to the parser?

I immediately thought about that after posting, but in reality markup is a clunky and expensive way to dictate this and it would create a lot of waste for something that would be used infrequently. An interesting idea that comes to mind is the concept of a Mobile Stylesheet / .mss file that would define elements by ID / class and dictate what those elements would represent in a mobile UI. Then you wouldn't have a bun…

That does sound like a good idea, definitely preferable to keep the markup a bit cleaner.

Honestly, I don't know if I care as much for a web-view based product, as Phonegap/Cordova have already been serving that purpose (at least for me), but what you've mentioned, if implemented, would definitely be something I'd use.

Re: Show HN: Automatically convert a website to Android and iOS

#50

This is certainly interesting, but it duplicated my own nav on my webpage. Don't know how it could be smart enough to detect that even though I have a very standard setup. In any case, I suppose it would be good for a quick and dirty start to your app and you could flesh the rest out later? I wonder who will actually end up using this for real.

what we normally do when using native sidebar navigation is hide the web navigation w/ css - there's a configuration option "Check here to support custom styling" where you can set:

nav{ display: none; }

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