Begin Developing for the iPhone with iPhoney
As you many of you may know, the (overly-hyped) Apple iPhone is set to debut on June 29th. While there is no true SDK for developing third-party applications for the iPhone, applications can be created using the same technology as traditional web applications. Some developers familiar with OS X application development were a little upset about that as they typically don’t develop web apps.
Regardless, Marketcircle has made development a bit more seamless with their pixel-accurate iPhone web environment dubbed iPhoney. As with the real iPhone, iPhoney utilizes Safari’s rendering engine and displays your app in a real 320 by 480 pixel display area.
I wonder what type of iPhone applications will become commonplace. I’m almost certain more than a handful of bloggers will make their own RSS widget type applications for their site. Although, I would like to see a powerful application for managing and browsing Flickr.
Speaking of the iPhone, yesterday’s big announcement was the inclusion of a YouTube application on the iPhone. Sounds great but I’m a little skeptical of how that will perform considering the iPhone will only sport 2.5G WWAN at launch.
Well it all depends on how it sells, if its successful enough there’s going to be plenty of applications to manage things like flickr, twitter, and etc. Or programs that can emulate palm / windows mobile applications?
Interesting question. How would you ’sell’ a web based iPhone app?
Would this encourage more subscription based services, than one time payment applications? Or would this actually encourage more free apps, since nobody wants to deal with a sign-on/account management component.
is that photo real? i wanna see my blog on iPhone too :)
sorry, i have to start reading the posts from the beginning till the end :)
That was probably the point. They made it so the ‘developers’ would have a hard time charging for their ‘widget’.
Well I was under the impression that iPhoney loads the apps as a website but that the real iPhone would have a local version and not rely on the web for the application, unless of course it was Internet-enabled.
Although for my needs this is a really pointless application, there is still an excited tingly feeling loading up your own site in it. Quite apart from making a handy tool for developers, I think Marketcircle have made a neat toy for all mac fanboys and fangirls!
Paul, I’m interested in learning which phone are you currently using and what do you use it for? I’m looking at picking up a Treo 750 for AT&T to use as a business tool for managing contact, checking emails, ect.
@Daniel - http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/06/12/review-blackberry-curve/
I agree Paul,
That would be sweet to get a Flickr app for the blackberry.