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[Jono Bacon <jono@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Chris Wilson <afrowildo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I could put together an app for the iPhone. I've never developed one to
> completion yet but have been messing around with a number of pet projects
> over the past 6 months so am quite confident in my ability to get it done.
> One cool thing in particular that could come from this would be a an
> Objective-C library for accessing the accomplishments, and since they're
> only stored in Ubuntu One anyway, that could pave the way for a general
> purpose Ubuntu One Objective-C library.
>
> An added bonus of building the iPhone app is that we can also get a native
> iPad app almost for free. In XCode, you don't create projects specifically
> for the iPhone or iPad, rather you just create an iOS project and that comes
> with Storyboards (a drag 'n' drop UI builder, similar to Glade) for both the
> iPhone and iPad. If you design it properly, you can recycle all your code
> between the two apps and just rebuild the interface, which will take no time
> at all.

Thanks for the interest in helping! :-)

You should take a look at the spec at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments/Specs/Mobile - you wouldn't
need an ObjC library as the app would merely show a special CSS view
of the website for mobile/tablet.

> I would have to wait until after the App Showdown is finished since all my
> free time is currently being devoted to that.

No worries!

   Jono

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