I was working on an unpublished trigger app at OkCupid Labs until recently. There's one EPIC WIN vs phonegap, which is that you never need to fire up xcode or eclipse. Builds happen on the command line and are way faster than native app builds.
There's one downside that's pretty severe: it's impossible to write native ui components (outside of the few they offer). We didn't care.
> So, has anyone created an app with Trigger that [is] not HTML wrapped in a UIWebView?
Trigger is a way to create an app that is HTML wrapped in a UIWebView (and has access to native camera apis, etc), so, no, nobody has ever created such an app.
Whoops. That's my bad. Not sure what I why I typed that to begin with.
So do you think it would be a good idea to use Trigger if: a) I needed an end result fast, and b) I am not creating a game?
I have not done practical iOS development before so I don't know what I will be missing or what I will need if I go with Trigger instead of a native iOS application.
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I was working on an unpublished trigger app at OkCupid Labs until recently. There's one EPIC WIN vs phonegap, which is that you never need to fire up xcode or eclipse. Builds happen on the command line and are way faster than native app builds.
There's one downside that's pretty severe: it's impossible to write native ui components (outside of the few they offer). We didn't care.
> So, has anyone created an app with Trigger that [is] not HTML wrapped in a UIWebView?
Trigger is a way to create an app that is HTML wrapped in a UIWebView (and has access to native camera apis, etc), so, no, nobody has ever created such an app.
Whoops. That's my bad. Not sure what I why I typed that to begin with.
So do you think it would be a good idea to use Trigger if: a) I needed an end result fast, and b) I am not creating a game?
I have not done practical iOS development before so I don't know what I will be missing or what I will need if I go with Trigger instead of a native iOS application.
You can build phone gap apps via phonegap's build service. I do this regularly. You tell it to pull from github and it builds for every platform.