Interesting idea You need to first join the apple developer program 99.00 and download the xcode sdk, and learn objective-c if you don't know it already.
Now you need to make some decisions. Is the information static and small enough to be stored on the phone, or is the webapp fed by a database. If the app must stay connected to the web for proper operation than I would suggest utilizing most of what you already have. The native sdk has a uiwebview component that is mostly a webkit browser. Most of the functionality of safari. I would probably replace the web navigation components your using with a native uitableview but display the first aid content in a uiwebview. Also sound can be easily added, and since your topic is first aid maybe you can make use of the location api's. One note of caution, to much web based content vs. native can get you rejected. ie. if your app is mostly a container for web based content apple is not likely to accept it saying its mostly a web clipping app. I know sounds stupid, because a quick way to get even more apps into the appstore would be for Apple to develop some native templates that are basically containers for web based content. There is an open source app that uses that idea, its called phonegap, but a lot of applications using phonegap have been rejected. Good luck ,application development can be rewarding and frustrating. We are really just starting out on native apps ourselves, we just put up a tracking page detailing our project. you can see it here, not much yet but we are moving on this at warp 9. http://sol3.typepad.com/tagalong_developer_journa/ On Jun 14, 4:06 am, kaikajus <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi developers, > > Half a year ago I programmed a little webApp called "First Aid on your > Mobile" that you can see/download > athttp://www.firstai.de/english/download-iphone.html > > Unfortunately, due to the memory limits (~400kb) I had to leave out a > lot of features, such as audio and many illustrations (in total > ~10MB). - Many users are asking us now, how to get all features into > the app. > > Because no one of us has a MAC (I did the testing in Safari...) we > have no idea of how we could port the web-app to an installable > version with all features included. We heard that the Cocoa > programming language is for the iPhone (and makes it possible to use > an installable file with more capacity). We guess the effort to port > the app wouldn't be high since the application is designed in an easy > way. > > If anyone of you has an idea, please feel free to send us an email or > contact us usinghttp://firstai.de/english/contact.html > > Cheers ! > Kai & FirstAi.de Team > > PS: The project is (and will stay) non-commercial. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" 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/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
