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Re:Leo the Homeless Coder Finished His App, and You Can Down... by percentcer on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @06:56PM (#6884814)
How did he do iOS development on a Chromebook?
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Re:Leo the Homeless Coder Finished His App, and You Can Down... by untog on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @07:29PM (#6885007)
Looking at the screenshot it's 100% definitely a jQuery Mobile app, wrapped into native. Which is fine.
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Re:Leo the Homeless Coder Finished His App, and You Can Down... by Edd314159 on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @07:00PM (#6884835)
Since it's available simultaneously on Android, I'm assuming it's using one of those write-once build-anywhere mobile frameworks.
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Re:Leo the Homeless Coder Finished His App, and You Can Down... by alexcroox on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @07:16PM (#6884921)
Judging by that UI screenshot it's jQuery mobile so he probably used phonegap to wrap it in a native app for both iOS and Android.
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Re:Leo the Homeless Coder Finished His App, and You Can Down... by jonknee on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @07:38PM (#6885057)
How would he use PhoneGap on a Chromebook? You still need to have X Code to sign an iOS application.

I assume his mentor was the one who packaged them up for Android and iOS (especially since it's listed under his name on the iOS App Store).

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Re:Leo the Homeless Coder Finished His App, and You Can Down... by TRUPPP on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @08:23PM (#6885285)
You can package the Phonegap App with Phonegap Build, a service running in the cloud for exactly this plattform-problem.
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Re:Leo the Homeless Coder Finished His App, and You Can Down... by hayksaakian on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @06:59PM (#6884834)
He might have used one of those cloud services that compiles your code on a Mac mini, but I don't know about him specifically.
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Re:Leo the Homeless Coder Finished His App, and You Can Down... by elwell on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @07:00PM (#6884839)
idk, was it an html5 mobile app?
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