Comments on: Skadoo: PhoneGap-based app now in iTunes http://openideals.org/2009/01/28/skadoo/ ... and the trouble it often gets him in Mon, 07 May 2012 01:36:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: nathan http://openideals.org/2009/01/28/skadoo/comment-page-1/#comment-106 nathan Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:42:55 +0000 http://openideals.com/?p=198#comment-106 PhoneGap doesn't scrape, it just provides a native wrapper to the WebKit component on the iPhone. You launch the app and point it any URL you'd like. Any offline, cacheing behavior would have to be built by you or through some sort of module in Drupal. I've got another post up about how I used this approach with Wordpress on Android: http://openideals.com/2008/12/31/wtfblogapp/ PhoneGap doesn’t scrape, it just provides a native wrapper to the WebKit component on the iPhone. You launch the app and point it any URL you’d like.

Any offline, cacheing behavior would have to be built by you or through some sort of module in Drupal.

I’ve got another post up about how I used this approach with WordPress on Android:
http://openideals.com/2008/12/31/wtfblogapp/

]]> By: Kent Bye http://openideals.org/2009/01/28/skadoo/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Kent Bye Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:30:53 +0000 http://openideals.com/?p=198#comment-105 That's a pretty impressive turnaround. Does that mean that you could put together a site in Drupal, and use PhoneGap to scrape the HTML, javascript & CSS, and then it'll create a static mirror of your site wrapped in an iPhone app? There's some people in the Drupal looking at building out an iPhone app that interfaces with the services.module. You can take a look here at their last update here: http://www.zivtech.com/blog/iphone-app-drupal-module That’s a pretty impressive turnaround.

Does that mean that you could put together a site in Drupal, and use PhoneGap to scrape the HTML, javascript & CSS, and then it’ll create a static mirror of your site wrapped in an iPhone app?

There’s some people in the Drupal looking at building out an iPhone app that interfaces with the services.module. You can take a look here at their last update here: http://www.zivtech.com/blog/iphone-app-drupal-module

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