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Web Development for IPhone and IPad

Here, we have presented three stages of building and optimizing your website design and tools to create web experience on the platform which is currently dominating the mobile world.

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Web Development for IPhone and IPad

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  1. Web Development for IPhone and IPad Today,iPhone operating system takes the 50% of the worldwide smartphone market. Also with the next highest being android at 24 % sales projection report next year. Believe it or not iPhone OS and safari, have turned into a power to be figured with for Web developers.So now it’s time to adapt the tools required to optimize websites and web applications for this iPhone operating system. At present, Safari on iPhone OS is a really great browser, it has some great interface elements, CSS3 and HTML5 support.We know that the iOS platform centers on native applications but you can still create a robust native looking apps using HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Here, we have presented three stages of building and optimizing your website design and tools to create web experience on the platform which is currently dominating the mobile world. Before we proceed lets discuss Advantages and Disadvantages of building a Web app instead of a native app:

  2. No Apple approval process or red tape has given the terms of service dispute going on right now. Optimizing your Web app for other platforms like Android and Blackberry with the same code is much easier. You don’t have to learn Objective-C. If you’re charging users, you don’t have to share revenue with Apple. You get 100% control over the means of payment, promotion and distribution to users. Disadvantages: No presence in the App Store. Installing the app on a device is a little trickier. No access to some of the features that are native to the iPhone OS, such as push notification and GUI controls. Design INSPIRATION Apple has a “Web apps” section on its website

  3. PAPER Using paper prototyping for wire framing new ideas is a great choice. You can deal with the size and dimensional constraints that you’re dealing with. Notepod is great for sketching out rough ideas for the iPhone and iPad. App Sketchbook UI Stencils sticky pads Apress iPhone Application Sketch Book

  4. DIGITAL Now if your design is ready, we can move to the desktop and get specific. iPad GUI PSD (Photoshop) Layered iPhone GUI elements (Photoshop), from Designer’s Toolbox iPad and iPhone stencils; see more at Graffletopia (OmniGraffle) iPhone and iPad Development GUI Kits, Stencils and Icons Coding when start coding , know how the browser works on iPhone, iPhone Human Interface Guidelines for Web Applications iPad Human Interface Guidelines Safari Web Content Guide

  5. Testing This is the most critical part in any web development process. Liveview is a really clever testing tool Hopefully the above article will help web developers to express their creativity while building a web app for iPhone or iPad.

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