Hi All,
I have developed a website in asp.net for iPhone.
Now I am stuck in how to deploy that site on the iphone?
Never done it before.
How to make it iphone ready so the device can access the site ?
Any ideas...
Thank you All.
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A:
Copy the stuff to the Web server, setup the databases if necessary, just as you'd do for a Web app designed for desktop browsers. Is this a real question?
Mehrdad Afshari
2009-08-15 22:08:31
actually, i want the url to be like www.mywebapp.com
socialCircus
2009-08-15 22:10:43
I can't see how it's different from deploying an ASP.NET Web site for desktop browsers. You'd purchase a domain name you like and point it to the correct IP address and upload your files to the Web server.
Mehrdad Afshari
2009-08-15 22:13:39
+1. There's nothing special about looking at a website from the iPhone. You don't publish it to the device, just like you don't "install the internet" on computers.
JamesMLV
2009-08-15 22:43:07
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Social Circus, as Mehrdad says you don't need to change anything to allow users with iPhones to access your site; iPhones use a mobile version of Safari that renders pretty much everything like a normal desktop browser. There are a few things worth noting however if you want iPhone users to have a good experience browsing your site:
- No Flash. If you've used Flash at all in your site it won't work on iPhones (or most other mobile platforms).
- The resolution of the iPhone is 320x480. The top and bottom bars will take off a minimum of 20+44 = 66 pixels. You could implement a CSS template that re-formated everything into 320 pixel width but this is a lot of work. See something like Google Mail in an iPhone browser for an example.
- iPhone users will be able to add a shortcut to your webapp on their desktop, with a name they want, so the actual URL matters less from this perspective.
- Finally, it's worth noting that many iPhone users think of webapps as a bit "passe" - a bit old (man that's sooo 2008!). This isn't really fair but it's mostly true. With 65,000+ apps on the app store no-one's going around looking for webapps any more. For a better chance of adoption, especially if it's something like a game, perhaps look at using the SDK to write an iPhone-specific version? (quite a lot of work usually!!)
Hope that helps
h4xxr
2009-08-16 00:27:09