Thanks Dave, This is interesting. I presume you built the riflethru app? I would like to hear a little more about this development method. Can you give me some highlights? For example, how long did it take? Any unexpected hiccups? I looked for it in the app store and did not find it... was it not published?
Many thanks, Mike On Oct 28, 6:19 pm, davidroe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that being in the app store is likely to attract more users to > your application as this is where people tend to look. Additionally, > not all apps in the store cost money, so why not use it to organise > web apps? That said, I think that the user expects to find > applications that will run natively, rather than something that will > just launch an instance of Safari pointing at your web app. > > If you are following PhoneGap, you will see that some developers are > releasing hybrid applications that are written using web app > techniques but have access to the phone's native functionality. This > is done using UIWebView and a wrapper around your web app. As far as I > am aware, such applications will not fail the Apple review process > just because they were developed using this approach. There are > definitely advantages to this approach, especially if you are a web > developer with no experience using Obj-C. > > I played with something similar a while ago forhttp://riflethru.com/ > to see what is possible. I ended up with a native application with > embedded GWT, so all the HTML/CSS/JS sit as resources inside the > binary and are loaded locally rather than over the wire. > > /dave > > On Oct 27, 11:55 am, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Can anyone list some iphone apps that were written in GWT and have > > > been published in the app store? > > > Maybe I'm being thick but... my first impression when I read this > > question was... why/how would want to sell it through the App Store? > > > Since the GWT app is really just a 'web site' that works with the > > iPhone, there's no executable to sell. It could be that the obvious > > answer is that you want to sell your app on the App Store is to make > > money. But since your GWT app is just a web app, wouldn't it be better > > to just make sure your target audience knows about your GWT app and > > maybe you could charge for use of the app by forcing an authenticated > > login that was just restricted to 'paid' users. > > > Maybe it's the jet lag kicking in but I'd never even thought about > > wanting to sell a 'web app' from the App Store. > > > Am I missing something you're trying to accomplish? > > > - John - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
