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Can't you create a barebones cocoa touch app that basically just shows safari, and your app runs inside that as ja and HTML?
by joubert 17y ago
Can't you create a barebones cocoa touch app that basically just shows safari, and your app runs inside that as ja and HTML?
- betageek 17y agoYou could, but Apple are rejecting apps that are just web views or RSS readers so I wouldn't recommend it.
- jcromartie 17y agoThere are plenty of apps that utilize web views inside of native iPhone UIs, like tab bar controllers and other widgets. They are "hybrid" apps and make the best of both and they get by the review process just fine. A lot of them are fairly big names, like Reddit.
- chc 17y agoA full app that runs inside a WebView is very different from an app that is just a WebView.
- flyosity 17y agoThe point is that if you build your application correctly no one will even notice it's not a Cocoa app. Take the iTunes App Store for instance. Nearly the entire application is a Webview, the AppKit equivalent of stuffing a Safari window into your application. It's all HTML (or an HTML-like markup language) and CSS. It's a little clunky sometimes but you can't say it doesn't "feel" like a real application just because it uses web technologies.
- endlessvoid94 17y agoWhat's the point? Just point users to your URL instead.
- mclin 17y agoThat's what PhoneGap is. It also provides the webkit js engine with access to the camera, accelerometer etc.