Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

If You Can Use PowerPoint, You Can Build an iPhone App

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

If you have the mouse skills to lay out a decent PowerPoint slide, you have all the know-how necessary to build an iPhone application.

Shenanigans! Tomfoolery! Pure insanity!
(You might be heard to say)

But building iPhone Apps really can be that simple. So simple even we marketing and communications-types can do it. No technical know-how required. Just like PowerPoint can be a powerful and simple presentation layout tool, MobiOne simplifies and drives iPhone applications with drag-and-drop ease. Even design a Web App, test it and send it directly to your phone in about 2 minutes.

Oh yeah, MobiOne is even free in the Milestone stage. There’s no excuse to put off your mobile strategy any longer. Try it now.

Leave your thoughts in the MobiOne support forums or here, Genuitec staff will get back to you.

Cheers!

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Sneak Peek: MobiOne 1.0 Milestone 3 to Include PhoneGap Support

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Here’s a quick status update on our MobiOne 1.0 progress… For the past month we’ve beencranking on some cool new features for the milestone-3 release that we believe will help further legitimize the mobile Web application development movement. The two spiciest features we are working on are new emulation support for apps built on the popular cross-platform PhoneGap mobile Web framework and a new Springboard style app manager for the iPhone emulation mode. Just as on the iPhone, the MobiOne Springboard app manager will provide installation and launching of webclips and PhoneGap apps.

new springboard for iphone emulator

new springboard for iphone emulator

To add new Webclip to the Springboard, use the browser to navigate to a site of interest. Then select the ‘+’ button on the bottom button bar and choose “Add to Home Page” from the bookmark dialog. Pretty simple stuff.

adding a Web application to the Springboard

adding a Web application to the Springboard

We like the simplicity and convenience of the cross-platform PhoneGap framework, and have been using it internally here at Genuitec to develop an upcoming series of mobile web applications. In our iterative mobile app development process we found that with PhoneGap emulation as part of our Windows-based development environment (I’ll explain our vision and strategy in a follow up blog) we can do the majority of our iPhone app development on Windows (an estimated 80-90 percent – a Mac and the iPhone SDK are required for the final 10 percent for packaging and deployment). That experience led us to extend MobiOne with the ability to emulate PhoneGap applications. MobiOne does this by running your PhoneGap mobile web code (HTML, JS, CSS) directly off the file system as you’re developing it. Because the PhoneGap framework is still very much a work-in-progress at this time, we’re implementing a core subset of the advertised APIs. We plan to introduce periodic updates as PhoneGap matures. Milestone-3 will ship with the PhoneGap API demo included.

PhoneGap inclusion, accelerometer demo

PhoneGap inclusion, accelerometer demo

The milestone-3 release is planned for this week, barring any unforeseen issues that may crop up in our final QA process.

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MobiOne M2: Palm Pre and iPhone 3.0 Application Development Made Easy

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Milestone release includes iPhone 3.0 geolocation, HTML 5 local storage and offline capabilities

Genuitec today announced the second milestone release (M2) of MobiOne; a new enterprise-class technology that enables development of mobile applications using Web standards. The M2 release includes the Palm Pre emulator for mobile Web application development and enhanced iPhone 3.0 development with geolocation and HTML 5 offline application caching and storage. Of course, MobiOne still includes the lauded iPhone simulator as well

Download MobiOne M2 here.

Developers will also enjoy new mobile Web site inspector tools that are integrated into MobiOne’s dashboard including debugging, local data and profile searching. Delivered with the simplicity of a single-click install, MobiOne is a technology that utilizes the power of the WebKit browser engine that drives some of today’s most popular mobile and standard browsers like Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome and others. With this browser engine standardized across many smart devices (including the iPhone, Palm Pre and G1/Android), developers can develop rich applications using the common Web languages of HTML 5, CSS3 and JavaScript.

This second milestone release of MobiOne is available for Palm Pre and iPhone development only, but will rapidly support other smart-phone devices with an aggressive delivery cycle. Targeted devices include Andriod/G1, Blackberry, and possibly Nokia and other smart devices being developed. MobiOne’s simulator technology delivers the behavior of these smartphone personalities through a customizable emulator.

Let us know what you think!

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