Are there iOS frameworks for speeding up the development of native iPhone / iPad apps for a Wordpress powered website? So, there is already a Wordpress site, and we want to create a native iOS app that will get it's data from the Wordpress site.
You can try with http://www.shoutem.com/ they can create nice app for you in a very little time..
There is a nice wp plugin.
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You can always try PhoneGap.
is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and app stores. PhoneGap leverages web technologies developers already know best... HTML and JavaScript
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Is there some-kind of open-source (or commercial) toolkit, framework or iOS component that would simplify process of making iPhone app for news-like website?
I know there are on-line services that create a native iPhone app from your blog (Wordpress, Blogger, ...), but we have a custom-build news site and we need a native iPhone app. Is there something cool to begin with, some kind of framework or toolkit that would offer you a basic setup like data fetching, caching, categorizing and common UI in terms of native iOS UIKit elements? Or is the only way to go do-it-yourself-from-beginning-to-the-end?
As far as I know, there are a couple of SDKs that will allow you to create full Apps using html, css and javascript.
Phonegap (http://phonegap.com/)
Cordova (http://cordova.apache.org/)
LinkedIn used HTML 5 for their iOS Universal app. I have built a few iPhone apps but with Objective-C. I also want to build an native app that uses HTML 5. IS there any good resource to learn about that from scratch?
Did they used UIWebView whenever they needed to embed HTML 5 in their app? Please help
Try out Phonegap:
honeGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and app stores. PhoneGap leverages web technologies developers already know best... HTML and JavaScript.
and the easy Tutorials
We want to make an iPhone app but we would like to be able to do web development on some sort of framework, and then use something to kind of port this into an iPhone app for us.
Is there anything out there that exists like this?
You might want to check out Phonegap.
Please see these questions:
Comparison between Corona, Phonegap, Titanium
How to integrate html5 and iphone applications?
Some discussion about general webapp verus native app issues:
iPhone apps: Webapps or native?
Can we build an iphone app and convert the application to the android application using phonegap framework?
I have been through various links.
We basically need to develop a webapp for that and that can be converted to an android app or an iphone app respectively.
I am an iphone application developer and i am not at all familiar to android.
Links or example code would be greatly appreciated.
PhoneGap will not enable you to "port" an existing iphone application to Android. However, if you develop an application within the PhoneGap framework (which means using html, css and javascript), you will be able to deploy it on multiple mobile platforms such as iPhone, Android, Nokia, Blackberry, etc.
The downside is that you will eventually be developing a packaged mobile website - your application consist of html pages, css styling and javascript behaviour/logic, combined whith access to phone internals such as gps, disk, database, camera, etc. It will usually not "feel" fully native on most platforms. For example, you will not be using the system's "native" ListView.
There are javascript libraries such as JQuery-mobile, JQTouch, etc, that make your application look nicer on mobile devices, but it's still not as good as the native experience.
The app you build will not be a native Android or IPhone app but a HTML Web App wrapped in the PhoneGap wrapper and packaged into a native app. So yes you can build for both platforms as long as you build a Web App
Edit -(a Web App is just a plain html/css/javascript + server-side(php, asp etc) website)
I have seen few apps having exact same UI when you access the app through stand alone app or through their mobile website. What are the pros and cons of both approaches while developing the app?
Edit - This is a general question. Not necessarily android. Iphone apps are also in similar categories.
If you have a mobile website service that works in a HTML5 browser, that is a good business. But in order to show up in the Markets you need to have a native application as well. So the folks create a native application, that simply loads the website in a webview UI object, as a wrapper for the website.
Take care if you are developping an app that is just a webview displaying a mobile website, because iOS app review team does not always like it.
I reccommand you to read carefully the iOS App Store Review Guidelines. For example:
2.12 Apps that are not very useful, unique, are simply web sites bundled as Apps, or do not provide any lasting entertainment value may be rejected
2.17 Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript
12.3 Apps that are simply web clippings, content aggregators, or a collection of links, may be rejected
Hope it helps