iPhone and iPad Screen Design

Time for a bit of a teaser with regards to what we are developing. One of the components is an iPhone and iPad WebApp. That is a website for the iPhone or iPad that looks exactly like an actual App, but is actually a web site. There are a few reasons for this, the most important being that it tends to be cross-platform working on Apple and Android, and the fact that this significantly reduces our development costs.

In fact, I have shown people the results of these type of WebApps in the past, and it generally blows their mind. People at least in the past have tended to believe that this type of functionality was only possible with a dedicated application. Thankfully not.

The programmer did need a bit of guidance on screen design – something that I was able to achieve by loading up Apple’s Xcode development platform with GUI editor.  Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, this does not allow me to develop WebApps, but that was not my point. I was more interested in a generic screen layout, and Xcode allows me to do that quite simply. Not quite as simply as something like VisualBasic from Microsoft, but fairly simple none the less.

Development is getting there. Right now, everything is just a juggling act of development work and independent development teams. But the end result will be worth it.