Phonegap

After identifying that Objective-C and the iPhone SDK were going to be difficult to use if we wanted to complete the project in a way that met our goal of - it should be as easy as possible to make an iPhone Application - we looked at our project and surmised that we could do this as a website quite easily, but how to get that website into an iPhone App was the question.

 Phonegap was the answer.

 Phonegap is an application that runs within the iPhone SDK and essentially packages a website as an iPhone application. This was perfect. This provided a way to create a learning resource for students that was very easy for us, that we could design for easily and package the contents of the website into an application with the click of about five(?) buttons. No Objective-C programming required at all. None.

 As Phonegap works with web pages it seemingly (or does) ties in to Safari on the iPhone which is a very good browser that understands the latest web programming techniques. Keep in mind you can't use flash on your web page though - Google Apple V's Flash for more information.

 We found that we were going to be able to do what we needed and do it well.

 All you have to do is install Phonegap. Link to video: PhoneGap installation video (7.6mb quicktime file)

 Below is a video example of using the iPhone SDK, Phonegap and a basic website to create an iPhone App.

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