Pete Forde of Unspace gave a presentation on iPhone application development at meshU. He covered the following topics, among others:
Check out his presentation slides:
Unspace is a small team that brings big impact to your online applications. Instead of providing cookie-cutter solutions that ignore the needs of... [more]
Interesting take on iPhone dev... very web bent. I don't think Canapges voice search would've worked through a web interface very well though.
A hybrid interface might make a lot of sense for querying web style content, but you've got a lot of awful constraints when push your data through WebKit. A 10MB memory limit, and 1.5s Javascript execution time limit. When you get one hick-up in the memory allocation while executing some JS code, your app gets shut down pretty quick.
And all those great games, man I'd hate to write them with the canvas object. Maybe we'll really get 3D in WebKit in iPhone OS 3.0. Then there's the question of sound.... Sorry, no way. I'm afraid the reality is web oriented programming is an entirely different beast. Even in a hybrid situation. Just gotta pick your tools for the job.
Sorry, I don't buy his slide's views. A pile of "this is the way" slanted BS in my mind. Experienced, but clearly slanted. (disclaimer: damn, wish I saw the show. I bet it was pretty good nonetheless. My half-baked opinion is from reading the slides only. Them slides need a dash of more humility. ;)
So, despite all that, way to go Pete!! You guys still rock in my mind.
The coolest feature is registering a custom protocol handler. Super under-utilized feature!
Cheers!
- Aaron.
