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The Easiest Way to Build your First iPhone App | Nettuts+

admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:43:54 +0000

PhoneGap is an open-source framework that can turn any web app into a native app for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android. It pulls off this trick by running your web code in a UIWebView, an embedded instance of Safari without the toolbars and buttons of the standalone Safari app. PhoneGap then extends this basic functionality by mapping features of the iPhone SDK to JavaScript objects you can call in your web code, so you can easily add features like GPS, camera, contacts, vibration, SQLLite and accelerometer support. And when you’re ready to distribute your app, PhoneGap 0.80 is Apple-approved!

Included in the PhoneGap distribution is everything you need to build and run an iPhone app. The included XCode project is bundled with a sample code showing how to use many of the native features, and all the supporting files necessary to compile the app and run it in the iPhone Simulator or on your phone.

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A Showcase Of Sites For iPhone Apps | D-Lists

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:11:26 +0000

Since Apple opened up the iPhone for developers to build applications on there have been hundreds of thousands built. They have opened up a whole new market for designers and developers to tap into. This has meant a slew of websites advertising these applications. I’m not sure which site was the first but there are some very clear conventions to be seen throughout this showcase. Have a look for yourself.

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Best Practices To Develop Perfect Websites for iPhone and Mobile Devices – woorkup.com

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:58:25 +0000

2010 will be the year of consolidation of internet usage via mobile devices. According to internetnews.com, which reports a Gartner analysis, mobile device sales will rise (9%) in 2010. This scenario will impose to internet companies, online newspapers, bloggers, to provide mobile versions of their websites to simplify the fruition of their contents and enlarge their audience. In this post I prepared a roundup of code snippets inspired to some mobile versions of popular websites (such as Facebook, Flickr, The New York Times, Digg, Google, …) that illustrate some HTML best practices to develop perfect websites for iPhone and mobile Devices.

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Ajaxian » PastryKit: An iPhone Webdev Library from … Apple

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:52:36 +0000

John Gruber has spotted a library for iPhone web apps, from none other than Apple. This mysterious library, called PastryKit, seems to have flown under the radar as a Google search reveals precious little on it. In similar vein to other efforts, Apple’s library provides support for native-feel websites – websites that run in Mobile Safari, but feel like native apps. (That’s the objective anyway; some look-and-feel emulators are “good enough”, while others get stuck in the uncanny valley).

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130 iPhone UI Icons for iPhone Applications | Web Resources | WebAppers

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:47:07 +0000

Glyphish provides 130 great icons for iPhone applications. They are designed and carefully optimized for use on toolbars and tab bars in iPhone apps, they are also perfect for Android apps, websites, t-shirts, tattoos and more.

iPhone UI icons are 24-bit PNG images used as a mask to generate selected and unselected button states. Dimensions should be about 30×30 pixels for tab bar icons and about 20×20 pixels for toolbar and navigation icons. You can find Glyphish icons in AI and PSD formats. So that you can easily resize and customize them.

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