I want to build an iPhone app that is really a wrapper around a wiki. Specifically, I have some static reference content that can be represented by a hyperlinked set of pages and want to build an app that will provide a nice interface over this content, including search, bookmarking, and annotating. I'm wondering what the best approach is for building something like this.
(I'm spent a fair bit of time googling for answers but pretty much every combination of search terms I can think of returns links to wikis, not links about putting a wiki into an app).
Are there libraries out there for handling wiki content (rendering, navigating links etc.)? I imagine I could just represent my content as a set of local HTML pages and point the web browser control at these but that doesn't seem right. Any ideas on how best to approach this in the iOS world?
Thanks in advance!
Try looking at TWedit, it is a wrapper for the excellent TiddlyWiki which is a single file WIKI built around JavaScript and HTML. TW is very powerful and well supported with many plugins available.
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Im in need for good candlestick chart for my web app and chart at http://bitcoinwisdom.com/ is really what Im looking for. I like the way you can zoom and move with it. Is it possible to figure out what they are using or do you think they made it up on their own? If so with what tools? Another amazing charting can be found here https://www.tradingview.com/e/ these two sites have even better charting than some desktop apps and I wanna know how they did it.
In searching the bitcoinwisdom's forums I found a couple posts asking for the exact same thing. In fact, I stumbled upon your SO post here looking for the same thing.
According to those forum posts' responses they used d3js.org with the rest being custom code. Unfortunately for us as their implementation is very impressive! View source on the page and look for the JS files they are referencing. The code is obfuscated and minified so porting it will be very difficult.
I recently was requested to put together a Flash site. Since I did that, I of course need to follow up with sister site that will work with handheld devices etc.
I put a site together which looks, for example, fantastic on the Blackberry, but the resolution of an iphone is so good that the site looks microscopic. What is an elegant way to deal with these resolution disparities?
Also, I just used PHP to check the browser type and feed different pages based on that, I didn't actually make a mobile subdomain or use special mobile code.. those days are over right? Or am I committing semantic crimes by treating it like a normal-but-different website?
Thanks for everyone's input.
CSS Media Queries were specifically designed to solve this problem.
Check out the article on Responsive Web Design over at A List Apart
Example site: A List Apart CSS Media Query Example
Another great example/tutorial: http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css3-media-queries
another: http://hicksdesign.co.uk/
another: http://colly.com/
Resize the width and height of this window to see what the media queries are doing. (also, view the underlying css)
I am an Android newbie and I really require your help.
I'd like to develop an app , which its UI is persisted of three Tabs, and the first one a WebView.
since I am not familiar with all the required building blocks, can anyone give me a sample? a guide how to do so?
thanks a lot!
The Android API Demos include several (Tabs1 to Tabs2 sample files) examples. Install, try and have a look at them.
Regarding specifying the content of Tabs you have the possibilities to use Views or Activities. If you check some "Tab" related discussion here you will find that established users prefer to use Views (e.g. here). I took the 'Activity' way so far and feel quite comfortable - but did not go to deep into pros and cons. My current point of view is that you have to decide on each special case and can't give a general recommendation.
there is some tutorials on this page : http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/index.html
I am building an iPhone Wikipeida game app, that requires modifying the default Wiki HTML a little bit (mostly simplifying the page).
So far I am directly downloading the HTML output from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Foo to a python Google App Engine, and then modify its CSS and HTML structure, cache it, and finally output to iPhone. It works but I find this method quite tedious, there must be a better method?
Please note that I use App Engine not just for parsing the Wiki, but the game also requires it to keep the stores...etc, hence not a overkill. Also, I would prefer doing all the work with python on App Engine, to keep the iPhone client as thin and mobile as possible (XML on iPhone is a big no fun)
Thanks a lot.
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Nick mentions why not use the mobile Wiki which already optimizes for iPhone. However, the issue is that it goes down quite frequently (every couple weeks or so), also its HTML structure changes quite frequently too.
You can use the MediaWiki API to download the markup text and use some API tools for Python that could make the process/modify work easier.
Caching and outputting to iPhone is fine. I believe there is not much to simplify here.
Why not just fetch the mobile version of the page from http://en.m.wikipedia.org/? This is already formatted for mobile devices.
You can set up your own copy of the server used by m.wikimedia.org:
http://github.com/hcatlin/wikimedia-mobile
It's written in Ruby, but this shouldn't be an issue if your app just uses the HTML output.
I've got experience in C/C++ and am trying to now learn Objective-C for iPhone development. I have very little web design experience.
I'm trying to create an app for a friend's site that accesses a search feature from a website and then display the results in a UITableView. For example, (this isn't the site I'll be using, but...) using the stackoverflow search function and then being able to format the results (https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=iphone+web+search) in cells. I'd like to leave out the rest of the content on the page.
I've only been able to find info about reading xml or rss search results. Otherwise, I could use UIWebView, but that displays the entire site. Are there other classes that I should look into for doing this? Any help would be very, very much appreciated!
The iPhone SDK doesn't include Cocoa libraries for parsing HTML. Just NSXMLParser, which isn't a good tool for what you want to do. (It will choke on valid HTML that isn't valid XML.)
This page is probably a good first place to look. The author says, "For scraping/reading a webpage, XPath is the best choice. It is faster and less memory intensive then NSXMLParser, and very concise. My experience with it has been positive."