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2 iOS business apps released using Gideros
ianchia
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I guess it's somewhat obligatory to make an official announcement about app releases, though these two apps don't fit the typical Gideros genres.
I've recently re-released a free iPhone tourism app rearchitected using Gideros and a heavily modified version of the uikit.mm plugin, utilising multiple WebKit viewports with a Lua model and controller setup. The MVC architecture is explained a little better in this thread:
http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/3902/tts-speech-synthesis-ios7-gideros-plugin-d#Item_15
App Store link for Open Studios: https://itunes.apple.com/app/open-studios/id388416851?mt=8
The original was built in Objective-C and the Three20 library, and this new version relies on a hybrid Lua/Web approach (not quite like PhoneGap - in my humble opinion, I think it works better since I'm driving everything from Lua and creating and destroying multiple WebKit viewport buffers on the fly). I'm extremely pleased with the speed of development that Gideros provides. I was under an extremely tight deadline and Gideros made this app development cycle possible.
The second app is an enterprise iPad app designed for a professional time-lapse photography system (http://photosentinel.com.au), used by pro photographers in commercial construction and art photography. For example, the top prize Australian entry in the 2013 British Chelsea Flower Show used the photoSentinel system to great effect, documenting the construction of their award winning garden over several days.
The free iPad app (with a demo mode for non-subscribers to their web platform) is available on iTunes here:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/photosentinel-viewer/id680404511?mt=8
This app similarly leverages strong technologies within HTML5 and WebKit, but also uses the OpenGL engine for rendering the zoom-into-a-photo aspect of the app (although lots happens on the backend of the web platform, since we're dealing primarily with typically thousands of 12+ megapixel images.) There's also lots of web service calls over SSL, using UrlLoader and XML parsing for all the back and forth between client and server.
Hope folk find these two apps an interesting way of using Gideros beyond the typical gaming genres.
Best,
- Ian
I've recently re-released a free iPhone tourism app rearchitected using Gideros and a heavily modified version of the uikit.mm plugin, utilising multiple WebKit viewports with a Lua model and controller setup. The MVC architecture is explained a little better in this thread:
http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/3902/tts-speech-synthesis-ios7-gideros-plugin-d#Item_15
App Store link for Open Studios: https://itunes.apple.com/app/open-studios/id388416851?mt=8
The original was built in Objective-C and the Three20 library, and this new version relies on a hybrid Lua/Web approach (not quite like PhoneGap - in my humble opinion, I think it works better since I'm driving everything from Lua and creating and destroying multiple WebKit viewport buffers on the fly). I'm extremely pleased with the speed of development that Gideros provides. I was under an extremely tight deadline and Gideros made this app development cycle possible.
The second app is an enterprise iPad app designed for a professional time-lapse photography system (http://photosentinel.com.au), used by pro photographers in commercial construction and art photography. For example, the top prize Australian entry in the 2013 British Chelsea Flower Show used the photoSentinel system to great effect, documenting the construction of their award winning garden over several days.
The free iPad app (with a demo mode for non-subscribers to their web platform) is available on iTunes here:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/photosentinel-viewer/id680404511?mt=8
This app similarly leverages strong technologies within HTML5 and WebKit, but also uses the OpenGL engine for rendering the zoom-into-a-photo aspect of the app (although lots happens on the backend of the web platform, since we're dealing primarily with typically thousands of 12+ megapixel images.) There's also lots of web service calls over SSL, using UrlLoader and XML parsing for all the back and forth between client and server.
Hope folk find these two apps an interesting way of using Gideros beyond the typical gaming genres.
Best,
- Ian
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Hopefully after native support, it will be much more easier t do
But I *am* very interested in the WebView support for Android, since I do a lot of inter-communication between JavaScript, HTTP calls and the Lua backend. Would *love* to be involved in some discussion about your native support when it's appropriate for a beta.
Thank you!
- Ian
http://giderosmobile.com/labs/native-ui
Webview has most of the quirks worked out, including native keyboard support for web inputs and executing javascript from lua
We only keep the code in alpha due to IOS part holding us down
Also, my iOS web view plugin has custom protocols which then calls Lua, hence I can call Lua using location.href or using links within the web interface.
I'm very keen to hear whether the Android web view support handles multiple instantiation, and the coupling of messaging between Lua and the webkit views.
- Ian
Have not thought about backwards option to run lua from javascript, will think more on that
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