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Building a web demo for a native iOS app in the mobile apps era

This is one of those achievements that had me yell a big "YAYYYYY" when I had it working, even though it is not complete at this stage. After coming across some hurdles, I finally managed to deploy a web demo for my iOS app  My Day To-Do  that anyone with a mobile or PC can try. In this short post, I will talk about my motivation for it as well as shed some light on my overall solution and I will conclude this post with my thoughts on this approach and what I think about it, in current day and age.  Motivation  My Day To-Dos has both a free and a paid version and the distinguishing features between the two are (at this stage) weather summary selecting the language the app talks in The above features are only available in the paid version and I wanted to give any prospective users a feel for what these features are like. Solution I have already written about the unique way in which I built my native iOS app i.e. Html5 for UI and native...

Making an iOS app like making a Java web app - Part 1: writing Java web apps

One of the outcomes of my work on my first iOS app is my Github repository Html5StarterAppWithSwift which is an Xcode project template for creating Html5/iOS apps, or maybe we can call it "native Html5 iOS apps"... hmm what do I mean? What I mean is, it's an Xcode project template, that can help you create native iOS apps such that all of the app's UI is powered by Html/Javascript, while it makes use of native iOS code ( Swift ) for scheduling local notifications, storing data ( Core Data ) etc. p.s. if you would like to know about Html5StarterAppWithSwift , you can have a read of this post . So what is this post about? I have a background in writing  Java  web apps i.e. for my day job, I write Java web apps using frameworks such as Struts , Play  etc and there is a way in which those Java web apps are written. Now, when I started working on my first iOS app, my Java developer background played a big part in the way I structured my app i.e. separation of code...