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Creating an HTML5 iPhone / iPad Game on the Apple App Store

We teach how to make javascript games. Then we’ll show you how to make a pseudo-JavaScript app a game using custom meta tags from Apple to make it look like an app by adding a web page to the home screen.

Is there a way to pack HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript into a native app that can be sold on the App Store? I know there are tools like PhoneGap, and maybe even PhoneGap is the answer, but it looks like we should use their APIs to create applications. I want to take these students to JavaScript games very simply, run a team over them and send them to Apple.

Is there a good ultralight solution for this?

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You can use the PhoneGap API to access your own functions, but you don't need to.

It is not yet super-simple, but build.phonegap.com is free for one application and allows you to download a zip file with your code in it.

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You can try writing a simple wrapper application that simply displays your html in a UIWebView.

As for the release, only a paid iOS developer member can send apps to the app store. This means that your students must pay, or you pay and send your students.

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As others said Apache Cordova (formerly Phonegap) does exactly what you want and does not require you to use your APIs

Keep in mind that the apple does not want the application store to be populated with practical applications. They have an approval process that can take up to 2 weeks before apple approval. And if each student submits the same application or very similar applications, most of them are necessarily rejected.

For training purposes:

  • it might be better to go using a clean web approach that you can put on a website.
  • or put the application on the Google Play store ($ 25 at a time) without strict application policies.

There is also Cydia for distributing applications for jailbroken iphones, but I would not teach that

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Or you can use the Ionic framework, even if you do not have knowledge in Angular and make games for Android / Apple .....

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