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iPhone Actions Anyone?
I have several clients who could benefit with a custom iPhone ap in addition to their basic Freeway based website. Freeway offers very limited iPhone features. I can detect, redirect and build a very simple site interface scaled to the iPhone display, but there are no actions to, well, do much of anything else. Is anyone working on additional iPhone features or should I switch to the apple developers environment?
Thanks for feedback. Jan
On Sep 2, 2010, at 6:48 PM, jan smoot wrote:
Is anyone working on additional iPhone features or should I switch to the apple developers environment?
Specifically what features are you looking for?
Todd Skype: toddbrilliant
Keyboard, drum selection tool (don’t know what apple calls it), device orientation, GPS location, tap/double tap/stretch/multiple location touch, … to name a few.
A lot of this sounds like it will need to be done natively, not within the “Web app” land. I don’t believe a browser will get GPS info under any circumstances, as that would be a potential security leak. As to the other stuff, there are third-party JavaScript kits, like jTouch, which can give you some of this. But for the full-tilt iOS experience, you really would need to use Xcode and the full framework, and you would need to get your app approved and placed in the Store.
Walter
Freeway user since 1997
That’s kind of what I thought, but I would still be interested in anything anyone is developing for the iPhone within the Freeway environment. Seems like there should be something else we could do within Freeway. And the iPad is not to be ignored either.
FYI for others who are interested in developing for the iPhone see: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/index.action
Jan
Hi Jan, Some of this you can get access to already (albeit not directly with Freeway or a currently available action).
For example; Geo location detection: http://merged.ca/iphone/html5-geolocation iDevice orientation detection: http://www.engageinteractive.co.uk/blog/2008/06/19/tutorial-building-a-website-for-the-iphone/
Both of these could be wrapped into actions that will allow you easy access to these features but (and this is where I start to think it all falls apart in my mind) I’m finding it hard thinking what exactly these actions would do with this information. For example once you have someone’s location you may want to plot this on a Google map, or find their nearest car dealer, pub or police station. In essence the action would have to work hand in hand with other actions or scripts to actually do something with the data.
At a basic level I can see both of these as actions that fire events on the standard Softpress target actions so that, for example, when an iPhone is placed in a landscape view the script shows a hidden div or image. I suspect, however, that your plans would be more involved that this and you’d want slightly deeper access to the page structure and how the whole page dealt with the data.
What sort of functionality were you hoping to achieve with these features?
Regards, Tim.
On 3 Sep 2010, at 01:26, jan smoot wrote:
Keyboard, drum selection tool (don’t know what apple calls it), device orientation, GPS location, tap/double tap/stretch/multiple location touch, … to name a few.
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