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Pixate Raises $3.8M to Bring Their Dynamic UI Platform to Android and Mac(pixate.com)
54 points by pcolton 13y ago|7 comments
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by pcolton 13y ago
Saw Watsi's presentation at Demo Day. Watsi is pretty special.
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Show HN: Native iOS Animation using CSS(pixate.com)
5 points by pcolton 14y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: CSS-based Animation for Native iOS Apps(pixate.com)
3 points by pcolton 14y ago|0 comments
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by pcolton 14y ago
Bootstrap is totally configurable, we're just showing the default styling. In terms of Apple allowing alternate designs, I think they encourage it, just look at Garage Band ;-).
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by pcolton 14y ago
Clarified on the site, thanks.
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by pcolton 14y ago
Fixed. ;-)
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by pcolton 14y ago
One real-life example (told to us by a customer): imagine you have a "spring sale" that you want to promote to your customers. You want to customize the look of the app, perhaps rearrange a few things, change the look, etc. You want to do t
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by pcolton 14y ago
Storyboards aren't dynamic. Our CSS implementation not only lets you style your app, including animation and transition, but it can be changed at run time, either locally or remotely -- just like the web. Think of storyboards/xibs as a layo
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by pcolton 14y ago
This isn't an all-or-none situation. You lose none of the fidelity of native development, it's just an abstraction of code to markup. It's all natively executed using native APIs. Typography, absolute pixel postions, animation, and much mor
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by pcolton 14y ago
It's free and open, and will work with our free engine. In its current beta form, we wanted our commercial customers to have a crack at it first.
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by pcolton 14y ago
Pixate Engine is a native framework for iOS (and Android soon) for styling your native controls using the CSS syntax. There's no web here other than the shared syntax of CSS. For example, to style a native UIButton: button { border-radiu
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Show HN: Bootstrap for Native iOS Apps(pixate.com)
72 points by pcolton 14y ago|31 comments
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by pcolton 14y ago
Pixate is not an all-or-nothing solution. You can just style what you want via CSS, and do the rest in code. Do it all in code and just inline some CSS if you like. This isn't a "use UIKit or us" type of decision, but more of a "how can I w
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by pcolton 14y ago
You can install our free Pixate Playground app on your iPad and play with the CSS in real-time: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixate-playground/id57867638... It's also open sourced: https://github.com/Pixate/Playground
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Native Mobile Apps Styled With CSS - Pixate (YC S12) Launches(techcrunch.com)
59 points by pcolton 14y ago|42 comments
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by pcolton 14y ago
Profitability.
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by pcolton 14y ago
Links Ruby: http://tinyurl.com/d7xmsjx C#: http://tinyurl.com/9pdztz9 JS: http://tinyurl.com/9vuyc6x KS Proj: http://kck.st/Phq0lr
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IOS Native Apps, write in any lang, style with CSS
5 points by pcolton 14y ago|2 comments
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MonoTouch (C#) Apps Styled with CSS(kickstarter.com)
2 points by pcolton 14y ago|0 comments
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by pcolton 14y ago
See http://www.thedominoproject.com/2012/07/voting-for-a-winner....
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RubyMotion Apps Styled with CSS(kickstarter.com)
48 points by pcolton 14y ago|10 comments
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by pcolton 14y ago
We believe that taking something complex and adding a familiar, declarative syntax, while keeping it all 100% native, will appeal to both developers and designers. We believe so because we've asked many of them.
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by pcolton 14y ago
...because if he hates CSS, wait 'till he gets a load of Core Graphics and Core Animation via Objective-C just to animate a custom shape. ;-)
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The Pixate Project: Bringing CSS to Native Apps(benzilla.galbraiths.org)
52 points by pcolton 14y ago|34 comments
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Show HN: Live Styling of Native iOS Controls with CSS(kickstarter.com)
3 points by pcolton 14y ago|0 comments
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by pcolton 14y ago
The video shows an example of how Pixate will enable you to style your entire mobile app using CSS. The dynamic nature of Pixate will mean you'll be able to A/B test different looks for your app in real-time, even in the users' hands (i.e.
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Dynamic A/B Testing of your Mobile App Design(kickstarter.com)
10 points by pcolton 14y ago|1 comments
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by pcolton 14y ago
Have you made a pledge? ;-)
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by pcolton 14y ago
Photoshop is what the vast majority of all web and app designers use at some point in their process.

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