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6 GWT Resources for the iPhone

Dietrich Kappe, Saturday, May 17, 2008 @ 10:32 am

We're starting to do some work at my firm for the iPhone (see my colleague Noel Rappin's recent release of a Rails Plugin for iPhone development), so I've begun some investigations and experimentations of using GWT for iPhone development. The sad truth is that, despite the initial hoopla around GWT on the iPhone, not much has been happening.
  1. GWT + iPhone == Pretty Tasty - a nice discussion of the development of the GWT Feed Reader for the iPhone and what went into building it. A great starting point if you're just getting started with GWT on the iPhone.
  2. GWT App Dev for the iPhone - from the GWT Blog, a slightly different take on the GWT Feed Reader project discussed above.
  3. GWT Feed Reader source code - open source. If you learn best by doing, read the code. See how it's done.
  4. Fake the iPhone User Agent - testing the iPhone specific versions of sites and apps is easy if you have Mac OS X, but if you don't this quick little tutorial shows you how to fake the User Agent in Firefox.
  5. iPhone Debug - an attempt to make debugging Ajax on the iPhone easier, sending debugging info back to the server. Uses Jetty with its support for COMET.
  6. Firebug for the iPhone - the idea that inspired the above. A bridge between your iPhone and the Firebug console in your desktop browser. Now you can see those debug messages in the comfort of your laptop instead of having to do it in the little iPhone window.

I'm going to put together a little bit of a iPhone/GWT howto/tutorial/investigation in the next couple of weeks, starting with a close analysis of the Feed Reader above. Stay tuned.

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Comments: 2 so far

  1. Hi,

    Do you know of any tutorials on developing simple GWT app on iphone, or just how to get the iphone look and feel with GWT?

    Thanks!
    Christina

    Comment by Christina, Wednesday, July 2, 2008 @ 1:37 pm

  2. @Christina

    Don’t know of any offhand. That’s what I’m working toward right now. Hopefully, I’ll have a tutorial ready in a few weeks.

    Comment by Dietrich Kappe, Wednesday, July 2, 2008 @ 4:16 pm

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