appmakr – Turn Your RSS, XML and HTML into a Native Mobile App
by George T on Oct 5 2009 at 23:41 
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Mobile development is on its way to the top 10 in-demand jobs in the next few years, in my humble opinion, and we will definitely see more and more developers (or not) entering the mobile development arena. In other words, the word “mobile” you might say it’s an integral part of the near future. So, as we are getting closer to that hyped era of mobile achievements, many questions (technological, economical and ethical) will rise.
As far as the development part is concerned, it will get better, simpler and certainly more exciting. A few days ago I found this (appmakr.com) that can turn your RSS, XML and HTML into native mobile apps on iPhone and Android. This means you don’t have to learn Objective C or Java in order to develop iPhone and Android apps.
AppMakr.com is a rapid mobile development environment offered as a web service, and created by PointAbout, Inc. that allows you to rapidly build native iPhone, iPod Touch and Android applications using content you already publish to the web, such as RSS feeds, XML feeds, and HTML content such as WAP pages.
There are already some apps out there, made with appmakr.com that you may know (like Burger King, 1st Mariner Bank and Futbol Ya)
I also came across with this book found at labs.oreilly.com titled “Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript” written by Jonathan Stark. It’s a complete guide that helps you build iPhone apps without having to learn Cocoa’s Objective-C programming language, using lots of detailed examples, step-by-step instructions, and hands-on exercises. It is splitted into the following parts:
- Learn how to build iPhone apps with standard web tools
- Refactor a traditional website into an iPhone web app
- Hook into advanced iPhone features (e.g. accelerometer, geolocation, vibration, and sound) with JavaScript
- Do most of your development with the operating system of your choice
Although these web apps cannot access the hardware (speakers, GPS, accelerometer, camera, etc.), I am very curious about how will (web) developers take advantage of these “frameworks”.
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