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 : Phonegap Version : 0.80 Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 1 hour Requirements To complete this tutorial, you’ll need the following: Mac OS X XCode (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. It pulls off this trick by running…
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