Hi, Folks –
I’m thinking of building an iPad Site and think I’ve got the hang of how to do that. My question is – how do you get an iPad site to show up on iTunes as an App? In other words, is there a way to build an App in Freeway and have it show up in iTunes?
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Jamie
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Er no. You will need to develop and app using Apple’s SDK
An ‘iPad Site’ is just that… a website, not an app.
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On Mar 24, 2011, at 3:26 AM, Jamie Turner wrote:
Hi, Folks –
I’m thinking of building an iPad Site and think I’ve got the hang of how to do that. My question is – how do you get an iPad site to show up on iTunes as an App? In other words, is there a way to build an App in Freeway and have it show up in iTunes?
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Sometime around 23/3/11 (at 23:26 -0400) Jamie Turner said:
is there a way to build an App in Freeway and have it show up in iTunes?
No. Or, to put it another way, yes. But only “ish”.
You could use QuarkXPress 8.5 and the free App Studio xtension. That
really is very good, believe me! But while you can embed HTML (and so
do as much as you like in Freeway rather than QuarkXPress) I really
don’t recommend using that trick as the main layout method. Use the
native layout tools and embed HTML where you specifically get an
advantage from that format. (For example, I’m experimenting with
embedding HTML5 panoramas in a QXP-made layout. It works brilliantly.)
Alternatively, you could use Adobe’s digital publishing solution and
do something similar (with the same caveats regarding native vs HTML
content). But at the moment the Adobe solution seems aimed squarely
at large publishing corporates, NOT small/independent/solo
publishers. Big time $$$ Ker-ching and a currently rather fragmented
workflow.
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Thanks, guys. That answers my question. I appreciate it!
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There are app development tools that utilize html and javascript as the programing languages, such as Appcelerator - The Appcelerator Offering Has been Discontinued | Axway
It may be workable to use Freeway output with a tool such as this. It is a bit of a double propeller beanie situation though.
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Sometime around 24/3/11 (at 11:43 -0400) chuckamuck said:
It may be workable to use Freeway output with a tool such as this.
It is a bit of a double propeller beanie situation though.
Yep, very true. Any solution that talks proudly of APIs and IDEs is
going to be a geek-friendly one - and almost certainly a
designer-unfriendly one too, at least in terms of hands-on visual
design and production. Worth a look, but don’t make any promises to
clients before you have tried it out for real.
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You may also find that in using Freeway, you find yourself taking a knife to a gun fight. Freeway is great for building web sites, but these app building tools assume a certain level of knowledge, and a certain formula for HTML output.
Equally, Freeway knows little of these things. Its output needs a large amount of massaging to get it to work with CMS systems (Joomla, Expression Engine, Blogger etc.). For app development, it may appear a seductive proposition to engage Freeway in such ventures, but you may well find that you lose a lot that makes Freeway useful (WYSIWYG for one thing may well take an early exit). Such things may be recoverable with Actions - but they would need to be researched, developed and written - and may well offer little help other than shoring up WYSIWYG and educating about Freeway’s inflexible placement of resources.
You would be better off familiarising yourself with more app friendly development tools if this is a path you wish to go down. Right now, I suspect that using Freeway is likely to be a whole world of hurt.
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As always, thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread.
A thought on App Development:
Tablet computing is the wave of the future – it took me a year to buy an iPad, but I haven’t put it down since. In my humble opinion, the iPad and tablet computing are going to be bigger than the invention of TV.
I’m not kidding.
Given that, hopefully the good folks at Softpress are hard at work on an App Development tool much that’s similar to Freeway Pro.
I’ve been a huge, huge fan of Freeway and will continue to do so. Let’s hope Softpress is trying to stay ahead of the curve by developing an App Development version of Freeway.
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I agree with you. I have not put down my 2.
I traveled to NYC the other day and wished there was a freeway “app” to work on one of my sites as I had down time.
J
On Mar 25, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Jamie Turner wrote:
As always, thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread.
A thought on App Development:
Tablet computing is the wave of the future – it took me a year to buy an iPad, but I haven’t put it down since. In my humble opinion, the iPad and tablet computing are going to be bigger than the invention of TV.I’m not kidding.
Given that, hopefully the good folks at Softpress are hard at work on an App Development tool much that’s similar to Freeway Pro.
I’ve been a huge, huge fan of Freeway and will continue to do so. Let’s hope Softpress is trying to stay ahead of the curve by developing an App Development version of Freeway.
Thanks,
Jamie
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Sometime around 25/3/11 (at 09:36 -0400) Jamie Turner said:
Given that, hopefully the good folks at Softpress are hard at work
on an App Development tool much that’s similar to Freeway Pro.
It would be very, very nice, and I’d like to see it - but this is a
big ask. There are major complications involved that aren’t apparent
on the surface.
Personally, I think you can have what you need right now with the
Quark App Studio tool. It isn’t perfect, but it is actually
surprisingly effective.
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Rather than start a new thread, may I open an old one? Given what was said above, would there be any sense in hoping Freeway would be able to publish to ePub in addition to unbundled HTML?
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