Not really, Apple explicitly supports web apps as an open dev environment and PhoneGap 0.8 at present. Titanium appcelerator is OK too.
Apps that use undocumented APIs or non-C code (ANSI C and C# are fine) don't pass the app store. What Apple doesn't want is for non efficient poorly designed code (flash?) to be translated into inefficient poorly designed Objective C. The Mac OS is much better for language support than iOS Apple let's devs do whatever they want (within reason hacking your customers computers computers isn't cool) but there is no filter for Mac devs. And there isn't an app store for the MacOS either. Devs that use some game compiler were collateral damage apparently. PeterSW Sent from my iPad On 13/06/2010, at 12:04 AM, Tim Romano <[email protected]> wrote: > I was under the impression that cross-compiled apps were prohibited by the > Apple licenses. > > http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/06/12/ftc.to.check.ban.on.iphone.cross.compile.tools/ > > Regards > Tim Romano > Swarthmore PA > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Peter Spicer-Wensley > <[email protected]> wrote: > You can create web apps which are targeted at the iPhone / iPad or you can > create HTML5 apps with JS CSS extensions and use phonegap or similar to > import to Xcode and roll up into a fully fledged ObjC app to upload to the > iTunes App Store. You still need to register but is cheap US$99 per year. > (which gets u a %15 dev discount on macs ipads etc) > Go to developer.apple.com and do a bunch of reading also look at Jonathan > Stark's book on OReilly about dev 4 iPhone (and android) using HTML5 CSS JS > and phonegap etc. > > See http://jonathanstark.com/books > > Thkskbai > > PeterSW > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 11/06/2010, at 11:38 AM, "Andrew Myers" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks to those who responded to this. That seems to alleviate a few > > concerns. > > > > Just one thing I did want to ask about though: > > > > On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:54:58 +1000, Sean Gilligan <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> iUI apps have been accepted into the app store. > > > > Can you elaborate on this? As a plain old "web developer" I have very > > little understanding of how iPhone apps actually work. I always thought > > they had to be written in objective c and run natively on the iPhone. How > > do the apps you refer to actually work? Do they launch a browser instance > > and then load HTML pages with iUI? > > > > All the best, > > Andrew. > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
