Posts Tagged ‘phonegap’
Phonegap And iWebKit Demo (Video and Source)
Randy McMillan sent me information on an example that he has posted this time illustrating the usage of Phonegap and iWebKit.
I have created a short video demoing the example in action:
User Interface Design Example Using Phonegap and JQTouch
Phonegap is a framework that I have brought up a few times that enables programmers to create native iPhone apps (along with Blackberry and Android.. simultaneously) using web technologies such as HTML/CSS and Javascript.
Randy McMillan submitted a story about an example that he has created of interface design with Phonegap using the JQTouch plugin (Xcode required to load the example). It makes for a very sleek looking interface.
Great Tutorial On Creating iPhone Interfaces In Dashcode
I’ve always shyed away from using javascript frameworks for creating iPhone apps even knowing I could save alot of time on the proramming simply because I couldn’t stand hacking out the interfaces. I tried using Dashcode (a free wysiwig web page edor provided by Apple), but gave up when I couldn’t find good instructions on how to do it. That’s changed now as I found this tutorial on creating iPhone interfaces in Dashcode.
Access Native Objective-C Code In Javascript Iphone Apps
Yesterday, I told you how to execute Javascript code on a page showing in a UIWebView using Objective-C. That was rather trivial as Apple has messaging functionality built in to allow that. Executing Objective-C code from within a Javascript application is not trivial. I highly suggest using one of the three frameworks I mentioned in a previous post.
Three Frameworks For Palm Pre WebOS style development on the Iphone
Yesterday I introduced the Phonegap framework which allows users to add functionality restricted to native apps while developing using javascript on the Iphone. I also got my first hater on this site, thanks PreDeveloper!
Today I’m going to introduce a couple more frameworks. Tommorow I will get into how you can interact with Objective-C using javascript, and vice versa.