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How to Make an HTML5 iPhone App

How to Make an HTML5 iPhone App
By Alex Kessinger You’ve been depressed for like a year now, I know. All the hardcore Objective-C developers have been having a hay-day writing apps for the iPhone. You might have even tried reading a tutorial or two about developing for the iPhone, but its C—or a form of it—and it’s really hard to learn. I don’t want to say that you should give up on the objective: you can get it eventually. But in the meantime, there is something else that you can do. You can create a native app that lives with all the other apps, and for the most part, it’s going to be a pitch-perfect imitation. You can do this with the skill set you probably already have: HTML(5), CSS, and JavaScript. I’ll show you how to create an offline HTML5 iPhone application. Offline? What am I talking about when I say "offline"? The app should be as functional as it can when it is offline, just like normal native mobile apps. Yeah, I mean it, check out the following image. Prework About the App Icon and Startup Screen Screen Size <!

"Mobifying" Your HTML5 Site Introduction Developing for the mobile web is a hot topic these days. This year, for the first time ever, smart phones out sold PCs. The "mobile" battlefield is still uncharted waters for a large number of developers. Creating a mobile-friendly html5rocks.com As an exercise I thought it would be interesting to take html5rocks (an existing HTML5 site) and augment it with a mobile-friendly version. This article examines how we created a mobile version of html5rocks optimized for Android and iOS devices. HTML4 and CSS2 have supported media-dependent style sheets for some time. would target print devices and provide specific styling for the page content when it is printed. You can use media queries in the media attribute of your external stylesheets to target screen width, device width, orientation, etc. In the following example, phone.css would apply to devices that the browser considers "handheld" or devices with screens <= 320px wide. Some read only the handheld style sheet. <head> ...

How-To: Create an iPhone Web App — Apple News, Tips and Reviews Safari Web Content Guide: Configuring the Viewport Safari on iOS displays webpages at a scale that works for most web content originally designed for the desktop. If these default settings don’t work for your webpages, it is highly recommended that you change the settings by configuring the viewport. You especially need to configure the viewport if you are designing webpages specifically for iOS. Configuring the viewport is easy—just add one line of HTML to your webpage—but understanding how viewport properties affect the presentation of your webpages on iOS is more complex. If you are already familiar with the viewport on iOS, read “Using the Viewport Meta Tag” for details on the viewport tag and “Viewport Settings for Web Applications” for web application tips. Read “Layout and Metrics on iPhone and iPod touch” to learn about the available screen space for webpages on small devices.Read “What Is the Viewport?” See “Supported Meta Tags” for a complete description of the viewport meta tag. Layout and Metrics on iPhone and iPod touch

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How to test / simulate the ipa-download after PhoneGap-build and before uploading to the Appstore I didn't have to drag the provisioning file into iTunes, just the IPA in two steps (on Windows 7 64bit): 1) Before Build: Make sure your iPhone's UDID is included in the provisioning profile by defining it in your apple developer profile for the app. To obtain the UDID: In iTunes, select your device in the ‘Devices’ section and navigate to the Summary tab. Click on the Serial Number label to reveal the Identifier field and the 40 character UDID. 2) After build & IPA download: Go to "Apps" Tab for your iPhone in iTunes 3) Check the "Sync Apps" box to allow editing of the left pane 4) Drag & drop your downloaded IPA to the left 5) Once it's there, drag it onto one of your iPhone pages on the right 6) Click "Apply" I had to add the IPA to the left pane first and then drag it to the right, I couldn't drop it directly onto the right pane.

Online Web Forms, Surveys & Questionnaires - FormAssembly.com The Easiest Way to Build your First iPhone App Mobile websites have come a long way, but if you want to take full advantage of a smartphone's hardware, or get listed in the iTunes App Store, you need to compile your code. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to create a mobile web app with an iPhone look and feel using jQTouch, then turn it into a native iPhone app using Phonegap. No Objective-C necessary. Tutorial Details Program: PhonegapVersion: 0.80Difficulty: IntermediateEstimated Completion Time: 1 hour Requirements To complete this tutorial, you'll need the following: Mac OS XXCode (included with Mac OS X, but installed separately)iPhone SDK (registration required)PhoneGap 0.80 Introduction to PhoneGap PhoneGap is an open-source framework that can turn any web app into a native app for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android. Included in the PhoneGap distribution is everything you need to build and run an iPhone app. Building and Running an iPhone App First, open up the iPhone folder, and double-click on PhoneGap.xcodeproj: That's it!

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