On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:25 AM, saravana babu <babusaravan...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi > Any opensource ide for iphone developer > If your intention is to develop an "app" for iOS, unless you need the native OS's features a lot, you can develop a HTML5/CSS3/Javascript based app and get it to run on the iOS platform. What more, using this approach you will be able to write code once and be able to run it on multiple mobile platforms without having to write code specific to each platform. To me, this is a huge win - especially when I would just like to "test" a product/concept and refine it. It is also a huge win because from the beginning you get to develop a web-accessible version of your application that can be accessed even from a desktop machine. This inclusiveness, I like! I found http://trigger.io to be the most pain-free way to achieve this using the HTML5/CSS3/Javascript approach - the reason this works is because most modern mobile platforms have a WebKit or equivalent that supports HTML5 specifications. The typical "Conventional" way to achieve this is to use PhoneGap / Apache Cordova project - but I have found setting up PhoneGap to be a pain (actually I couldn't - I gave up after 1 hour of "trying") and trigger.io Just Worked! Trigger gives a python tool that can run on GNU/Linux. The tool will submit your code to trigger.io servers, generates a build out of it and downloads the build. Then you can 'run' the build. If you have a device connected, it will load it into the device or, where applicable (like with Android) trigger will start the emulator if you have installed the Android Development Kit. However, for iOS, you will still need and iOS device like an iPad or iPhone. There are other alternatives to trigger like sencha or even many so called 'do-everything-on-the-cloud' services like Tiggzi, etc., I haven't tried those (I tried sencha and found their 'free' version too restrictive to try out what I wanted to do and ExtJS is a whole framework I'm yet to wrap my little head around) and I found Tiggzi and their ilk to be targeting "developers" who don't want to write any code. If your intention is to develop "games" or other such "multi-threaded" stuff, then a Javascript based app may quickly turn into a bottleneck and will have visibly poorer performance (unless you are a JS guru or have a team of JS gurus... like Rovio*). In such a case, the best bet would be to develop a native iOS (or android) app. However, if all you need is a decent user interface, then Jquery Mobile / Zepto / etc., can be of help and may be a smarter thing to do especially if the 'solution' you are providing involves the Internet (ie., the mobile device is just the "user interface" while the 'brain' of your app sits on the cloud). * It is worth noting that the famous AngryBirds also has a HTML5 version but it still doesn't work as smoothly as the native version of AngryBirds (unless one possess a high spec device). So, writing native apps has its uses - but I'm assuming 80% of typical "app" development needs can be met using the HTML5 approach. YMMV. Cheers, -Suraj -- Career Gear - Industry Driven Talent Factory ~ Amazon Web Services Training Partner and Consultancy Firm http://careergear.in/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
