Hi all,

this time it is not an Amiga related question... any iPad experts here?

Task:

Transfered some html files, linked images and a image subdir into my new iPad. How can I view those html files?

Remember,

- html files should never go online!
- html site uses frames, which seems to be a problem for "normal" document viewers

Would it be possible to pack all html, images, style and subdirs into an "installable app" which could then be opend with a sort of safari/html runtime or could be opend in safari directly? Including an appicon on ipads desktop. Any iPad dev up to the task (paid, as this might become commercial).

This should give you an idea, what I am on about :

www.geobiz.de/SMS

Thanx for hints

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@gerograph

I you really want to build an app.. Then.. what you search is Phonegap ( http://phonegap.com )

Features (excerpt):

* Does exactly what you describe: Create a native app, that embeds a web browser that shows html files that are locally installed within the apps home folder.
* OpenSource (Now hosted as Apache project, http://cordova.apache.org)
* Multi Platform (iOS, Android, Windows Phone etc.)
* Create Hybrid Apps (Access device functions with Javascript, see http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.6.0/index.html)
* Build service lets your easily create your app for many platforms ( https://build.phonegap.com )
* ...

If you want your app to look and feel a little more "mobile", then consider an UI Toolkit as JQuery Mobile ( http://jquerymobile.com ).

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@inermis

Sounds, good. However, I haven't got MacOS, which seems to be compulsary.

How about somebody else does it for me?
Do I have to submit the whole app the Apple App Store?
Or can I just transfer it locally to my iPad / customers iPad ?

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@gerograph

While phonegap itself requires OS X to compile apps for iOS, "phonegap build" is an online service for compiling html/css/images/javascript as standard w3c packages into apps for multiple targets, and therefore you only need to make your stuff a standard package before uploading. Should be very little work and require only a text editor and a browser

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@olegil

thanks, however looks like I can still not fulfill my needs.... I logged in, created an app an could download it for several OSes, but not for iOS, though. I have to enter a certificate (p12) file and a provisioning profile. Guess this needs registering as a developer at Apple? This ones again needs an proper apple iMac?

Any idea?

Edit:

PLUS:
I created about 10 websites/apps containing confidential Data. One website/app is targeted at one iPad inside the company. Another website/app is targeted at the other iPad. Therefor it should not appear on Apples Appstore and should be uploadable to one unique iPad.

Alternatively I iPad Webbrowser capable of file:// protocol (Open local...) would be suitable.

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@gerograph

Yes, unfortunately without ADC membership you can't even test your apps on real devices. With a $99/year membership, you can test your apps but even then if you're not putting them on the App Store the provisioning profiles will periodically expire and you'll have to reinstall the app. If you want to deploy in-house apps, you'll probably need the $299/year enterprise membership:

https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/enterprise/

One easy option you could look at is a kiosk app like Kiosk Pro, which will let you use HTML files stored locally. You'll have to set it up on each device, but it sounds like you don't have too many devices to contend with and it should be a lot easier than putting an app together.

Finally, you could look at jailbreaking but you still need a Mac to build the app and jailbreaking is only good if you own the device yourself and you're happy doing it. I'd have a look at the kiosk option...

Chris

@clebin

Thanks, for infos...

Quote:

One easy option you could look at is a kiosk app like Kiosk Pro, which will let you use HTML files stored locally. You'll have to set it up on each device, but it sounds like you don't have too many devices to contend with and it should be a lot easier than putting an app together.

Yes, this would be perfect. However, I already tried a few apps which should be capable of showing html files locally/offline: e.g. Terraweb Browser, Documents by Readdle,... none of them were able to show my files properly. I couldn't see the left frame of my html page.
But I have the solution: retreiving the site from the net works fine, as it seems it doesn't matter wether something links to "Nav.html" even if there is only a "lower case" file called "nav.html". When browsing local, it seems all tested apps do care about upper or lower case. After fixing that, it worked.

Nevertheless, Kiosk Pro looks like a nice idea, I already installed, and I will test with local files tomorrow, maybe it isnt't case sensitive...

regards and thanx for infos

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@gerograph
For my own, I use usbdisk free version
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/usb-disk/id370531520?mt=8

It can store complete folders of html files and images, like a 'off line' static site.

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@Gilloo

Thanx, might be an alternative to what I have now, it seems there are two options I have. Your solution is similiar to solutions I tried before:

Option 1:
Use a file/folder navigator (filemanager) with inbuild html viewers. Tried a lot of them, and they do work if you make sure that links and filenames are lowercase. That this was the problem btw. took me until yesterday to find out (seems like if site is browsed online, lower-/uppercase doesn't matter) Tried

Readdle Documents
Filer
Files

Some of them have an unuseful webinterface for uploading folders. Some only work if your files are all situated in "root" dir.

Option 2:
Use a webbrowser capable of showing files offline. Transfer files via DiskAid (http://www.digidna.net/diskaid), if you have subdirs. If all files are situated in one rootdir you can also use iTune to transfer. Both solutions I tried show up as an app with "fileuploadsection" in iTunes:

Kiosk Pro
Terra Browser

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