Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Mon Feb 18 20:59:59 CST 2013
Nice! I will bookmark this for later. - Hans On 2013-02-18, at 5:47 PM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi All: > > Here is a very interesting new product that might allow developers to port > iOS native apps into HTML5 apps for porting and developing to other > platforms. > > According to the description it helps in the translation of the following > artifacts: > > 1. Objective-C* (and a subset of C) source code into JavaScript. > > 2. iOS* API types and calls into JavaScript/HTML5 objects and calls. > > 3. Layouts of views inside Xcode* Interface Builder (XIB) files into HTML + > CSS files. > > 4. Xcode* project files into Microsoft* Visual Studio* 2012 projects. > > The application is essentially a source-to-source translator that can handle > a number of conversions from Objective-C* into JavaScript/HTML5 including > the translation of APIs calls. A number of open source projects are used as > foundation for the conversion including a modified version of Clang > front-end, LayerD framework and jQuery Mobile* for widgets rendering in the > translated source code. > > A very interesting and detailed description is also provided. I am sure that > similar products will be used to translate all the native apps, regardless > of the platform on which they have been originally designed. > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com