Comments on: iPhone Tech Talk World Tour 2009

By: Ustun

Ustun — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:06:23 +0000

OK, thank you for your reply Nick.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:14:52 +0000

@Ustun: I think this would be a good approach. Keep in mind that Apple is unlikely to approve a native app that only has an UIWebView and no other functionality. They would say that you should make it a web app that users can access via Safari. One piece of functionality that you could add to a native app is to save the user’s login credentials to make it quicker to login and check your results.

By: Ustun

Ustun — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:21:53 +0000

Hi Nick,

I need your advice on using UIWebView for our project.

We are preparing an app for a customer which is a test center. Students can login via web, and check their exam/test scores. Unfortunately the web side has been prepared by another company, and without web services in mind; so we can’t just get the xml/json and parse it and show it in our app easily.

One alternative we thought was then, simply embedding a UIWebview in our app that connects to the results page, which will be specifically styled for iPhone. Does this approach make sense? Actually, we would just be cleaning the user interface a little bit, decrease the page width etc, and try to show an iPhone friendly web page in our application, instead of parsing and showing info with native components.

Thanks for your time.