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WidgetPad: web development for iPhone apps
Sorting through the tips inbox, we encountered a new product that is coming out for the iPhone next week. It's not an app, game, or anything we "normal folk" would use but it looks to be a great open source, web-based development platform for iPhone. WidgetPad allows web developers to create iPhone applications using only their knowledge in web-based code. The software allows you to write your applications using web-based code and then transfer them to standalone apps for the iPhone or iPod touch.
We're being told that the iPhone is only the beginning; the software will eventually translate to other smart phone platforms so that developers can quickly and easily export their applications for other app stores without re-writing the code. Here are some quick highlights:
- Create web-based applications that utilize each phone's hardware capabilities.
- The environment includes and helps you learn HTML 5.
- It's all open source. If you want another feature, you can help the development team create it.
- Each application is written within the software and can be publish directly to the iPhone (more platforms soon).
- Source code editing for Javascript, HTML 5 and CSS (with syntax highlighting).
- No additional software - all of the work is done directly from your browser.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
imamathwiz said 6:18PM on 9-15-2009
this is great for those of us who want to develop for the iPhone os, but can't get a mac
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sam said 7:19PM on 9-15-2009
It's too bad Apple has already said that they won't allow any applications that use open source distributed libraries. That is besides all the ones that are already on there. :/
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Anderson said 9:24PM on 9-15-2009
So, is this basically like 280 North's Atlas?... aside from the Cappuccino part of course.
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David Kaneda said 8:00PM on 9-15-2009
You may be interested in jQTouch as well, a jQuery plugin for creating iPhone apps:
http://www.jqtouch.com/
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Chris L said 3:58AM on 9-16-2009
This sounds similar to PhoneGap, which I am told Apple routinely rejects if you use it.
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morgan.elena36 said 4:57AM on 9-16-2009
Selecting a suitable development environment depends a lot on the nature of the site and the
project requirements. One needs to carefully thing about the technologies to be deployed as
you are likely to live with it for a long time.
So I would like to recommend one of my client who provides solutions in both PHP and .Net
technologies.
http://www.redalkemi.com
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chefgon_ign said 9:35AM on 9-16-2009
I can't be the only person who thinks writing an app in C is about a million times easier than writing one in HTML and Javascript. This sounds like a great solution if your end goal is to torture yourself for no good reason.
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