Make iPhone web-apps with iPhone SDK
By Will Park on Monday, March 10th, 2008 at 5:22 PM PST In Announcements, Apple, Applications, Developer, iPhone, iPhone OS
That’s right. Now anyone can code a web-app for the iPhone. The new iPhone SDK includes a new version of Dashcode that makes it easy develop web-apps for the iPhone.
The interface includes preset styles that we’ve all come to associate with the iPhone. You can start off with the default browsing screen template (you know, the menu style that slides to reveal the next menu-level) or code your own. iPhone development noobs will be happy to hear that they can take the “slider template” and add-on forward/back buttons, gauges, indicators, form elements, and more – with little knowledge for code.
With the new Dashcode, I think there are going to be an overabundance of iPhone web-apps hitting the web. Most will suck, but the thing about a massive developer-nurturing environment is that we will inevitably see some amateur come up with a really useful web-app. Bring it on!
Oh, and go download the iPhone SDK if you want to dabble in web-app development.
[Via: iPhone Atlas]
Looking forward to seeing the IntoMobile iPhone web app!
But, alas, a PNG image isn’t enough to develop apps for any phone.
Hi,
I am feeling like writing some applications for iPhone but the problem is that I can’t find a way to write even a simple ‘Hello world’ program on windows and buying mac for writing fairly straight forward codes does not seem to be a very encouraging option.
Can you suggest me some way in which I can write small iPhone programs on windows XP?
Regards,
Varun Prakash Shrivastava
(varun.prakash@gmail.com)
Varun Prakash,
Did you find an answer to your iPhone on Windows XP question?
Doug
Hi Doug,
No I could not find an answer to my question and the only way I could move forward was to buy a Mac.
Hey, have you seen the mac mini Varun Prakash? It is only $600 a good deal that is what i use to develop apps.
iPhone web apps are just html, css, and javascript… Search for “iwebkit” on Google and you will find an awesome free library to help you create the apps. You don’t have to buy a new computer!