Tell me if this iphone app will work
I am considering adding iphone support to the application in the simplest way possible. I have no experience writing code for iphone, so I try to keep it very simple. Here's my current concept of what the app will do:
1) Copy some data from PC to iphone - this will probably be sent by the app running on the PC, either wirelessly or via USB (whichever is simpler)
2) Store data locally on iphone
3) View data in Safari (or control the web browser in the app)
Originally I was hoping that we would just let the user manually copy the HTML files to the iphone for viewing, but apparently Safari on the iphone doesn't allow viewing local files. :( Are there any other "gotchas" with the above ideas about which I need to know (eg "you cannot embed a web browser control in your application and view its local files"), or should this concept work?
Thanks.
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Here's one option: create an app that uses the UIWebView. You can read data from files on disk as well as load other data over the network dynamically using javascript.
The advantage is that you get the most up-to-date information over the web, with some navigation, either in native app mode (more efficient) or using a UIWebView.
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