Creating an stand-alone app for viewing tours offline on iPad.

iamwill · October 3, 2014 at 2:28 PM

I'm looking to create a bespoke app to allow people to view tours offline on an iPad / iPhone. I'm wondering what the process is in creating a stand-alone app that can be downloaded from the app store.

sachagriffin · October 3, 2014 at 3:09 PM

I assume you've tried all the ones out there?
There are quite a few details that could be improved on the existing apps.
The Gyro is a big one. The two I've tried screw up the gyro in portrait.
The upload process could use a progress meter. Large zip files take a long time and no progress meter is scary.

If you mean a singe app for a single tour.. I think that's probably the easiest type of app. I think people use something called phonegap.
I was referring to the generic offline document apps of goodreader/html books etc.

iamwill · October 3, 2014 at 4:17 PM

Thanks for your response Sacha. I've not looked into them all, but as you mention, each has their own issues. I'll certainly look into phonegap as I think a dedicated app is what I need. Ideally it wouldn't be for a single tour, but as a general tool enabling viewing of tours offline.

Tuur · October 3, 2014 at 5:33 PM

I tried once with indesign. Worked quite nice actualy

Tuur

iamwill · October 7, 2014 at 11:41 AM

Hi Tuur

Thanks for the tip, developing something with PhoneGap might be ideal for our needs, but we're keeping our options open.

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