iPhone development
Discussion
petemurphy said:
whats the diff bet develpoing an app and doing a mini site in css /html5?
To be honest I've no idea about developing for HTML5, I don't know what it's capable of. But for me there was no question about which I would learn - apps have a route to market so I can make money from them! I wouldn't know how to go about selling a mini site, and Apple (with all it's faults) have made it very easy to get an app up for sale, the hardest part is making it stand out amongst all the other ones out there!Slowly having a go at it. Zero commercial reasons whatsoever I thought I would have a bash at at.
But I like to be different as I am going via the FreePascal route via xcode.
I can see how xcode roughly works. Its a bit like Delphi or Visual Basic where you create the form and place the code behind it.
By the way, where IS /usr/include/arm/_structs.h.
It says to point it towards the iphone SDK I keep looking and looking as that is what is needed for the install completion.
But I like to be different as I am going via the FreePascal route via xcode.
I can see how xcode roughly works. Its a bit like Delphi or Visual Basic where you create the form and place the code behind it.
By the way, where IS /usr/include/arm/_structs.h.
It says to point it towards the iphone SDK I keep looking and looking as that is what is needed for the install completion.
silent k said:
To be honest I've no idea about developing for HTML5, I don't know what it's capable of. But for me there was no question about which I would learn - apps have a route to market so I can make money from them! I wouldn't know how to go about selling a mini site, and Apple (with all it's faults) have made it very easy to get an app up for sale, the hardest part is making it stand out amongst all the other ones out there!
fair enough it was a genuine question as i dont know programming but i know html/css so wondered if i really needed to learn apps stuff to create them. sure I read a while ago that theres some program that turns your html/css site into an app although i may be talking complete b
ks! I'd like to have a go at an app but would rather extend my html knowledge than learn completely diff systems if poss.I have a sams teach youself iphone app dev on the shelf wondering if i need to open it!
Currently writing a game using Corona Very powerfull, very simple little toolkit that cross compiles to android and iphone. The Lua language it uses is a joy to work with after years of PHP. As a test I got a simple naughts and crosses game written and running on my desire in a few hours including setting up the dev environment, and I've never written a line of Lua before in my life. Well worth a look.
Alex said:
This is the future of mobile apps, but for now, dedicated apps give a better user experience, especially offline.
I'm not convinced (at least for the sort of stuff I do - educational games), would HTML 5 be able to access the phones hardware like tilt sensors and cameras ( not arguing by the way I don't actually know!)? The other thing is how do you make money from them without adverts or subscriptions? I appreciate the majority of business apps would work just as well as web apps though.Gassing Station | Computers, Gadgets & Stuff | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff