Comments on: GWT is Flexible — an iPhone Demo

By: Geotako

Geotako — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:51:01 +0000

Thanks to this example, we have developed a GPS App for iPhone/Android with 100% Google Technologies (m.geotako.com):

Technical Info:
- Back-end using Google AppEngine cloud infrastructure
- Front-end using Google Web Toolkit which can run on both iPhone Safari and Android Chrome (also other desktop browsers)
- GWT based internationalization
- Integrated with Facebook Connect for wall posting
- Using Google Maps API for reverse geocoding (retrieve your address automatically when you add a new location)
- HTML5 based Geolocation for tracking your location with GPS
- HTML5 based Web Database for storing local information in the browser

Features:
- Discover interesting locations around you with beautiful photos
- Share your journey with friends by checking-in to locations around you
- Grabbing mayorship of a location when you checkin frequently
- Post to Facebook wall when you checkin
- Locate where your friends have been to
- Add new locations with photos
- A ranking showing the top travelers with the highest number of mayorships
- Support English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese

You may try it here: m.geotako.com

The app can also be found in Google App Engine Applications Gallery

By: Clay Lenhart

Clay Lenhart — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:41:17 +0000

The source files are back again.

By: Nico

Nico — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:18:14 +0000

Thx ! It will be useful to test it on Android.

By: Clay Lenhart

Clay Lenhart — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:46:05 +0000

Whoops, these got lost in the upgrade. You can find the source code here as well: http://bitbucket.org/Clay/sampleiphonewebapp

By: Nico

Nico — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:03:27 +0000

Hello !

You did a great job !…. but the sources and demo are no more available (I already saw them a few weeks ago). Do you plan to publish them back ?

Thx, Nico

By: Clay Lenhart

Clay Lenhart — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:34:40 +0000

No, there are too many “gotchas” for this to be a framework. For example, you have to be careful with the way I did iphone events in this example — you could get a memory leak. I couldn’t hook in to the GWT way of doing event unfortunately.

This will remain what it is — an example. Feel free to use it as a reference!

By: Erick Audet

Erick Audet — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:59:55 +0000

I agree with the above comment about the smell of a new GWT/iPhone framework. This is great source code. I have tested your source code by adding some new tags in the xml files (listitems, buttons, textbox) and it works great. Perhaps an opensource project should be created.

By: Clay Lenhart

Clay Lenhart — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:31:10 +0000

Bart,

I saw that site recently! Great work!

By: Bart Guijt

Bart Guijt — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:20:46 +0000

Looks like you beat me to it

Anyway, interesting research you did here. I am about to do mostly the same thing: incorporate the Dashcode parts into GWT – see http://code.google.com/p/gwt-mobile-webkit/

Cheers!

By: domanthan

domanthan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:22:36 +0000

in fact, we need only the GWT Rpc Compiler for Iphone, isnt it? Cause iphone doesnt need HTML and Javascripts