Create Content-centric IPhone & IPad Apps On The Fly With GENWI

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Create Content-centric IPhone & IPad Apps On The Fly With GENWI

July 13th, 2011 androidoholic Leave a comment Go to comments

The iSites.us site has rebranded itself currently as GENWI (the name of the primogenitor company) and stretched to offer iPad app origination in add-on to iPhone and Android apps. With a candid CMS engine, the service lets you emanate possibly mobile HTML5 web apps or loyal local apps around your content, delivering a digital publication experience without coding or endless growth chops.

The core of GENWI is a feed aggregation/cloud calm apparatus that website owners or publishers can indicate at their feeds (including RSS, ATOM, iTunes, or law XML and homegrown APIs) to automatically refurbish calm inside of the app. Publishers can simply classify and rearrange the app’s sections, insert law statement posts, agree to amicable media sharing, increase images/rich media (audio or QuickTime/MP4 video) and more. Like any great app platform, promotion services are bundled in to the system.

The new iPad example provides many more visible customizations, as befits the incomparable actual estate of the inscription apps. While the present HTML5 apps and the local iPhone/Android apps may be entirely skinned and graphically customized, the iPad GENWI apps may be rearranged and laid out in more complex ways. Customers moreover have the choice of conceptualizing a full HTML5/CSS skin from graze and plugging it in to the GENWI platform.

GENWI’s low-end outline charges US$99/month is to app back-end services, casing up to 100K app interactions (page views, etc.); you contention the apps by your own Apple developer account, that is a well-defined $99/year cost. If you wish to broach the iPad experience, though, you’re seeking at the $499/month Professional outline ; that puts this service out of the attain of many unintentional publishers and hobbyists.

Back in March, our colleagues at Download Squad did a full rundown on the ‘Instant App’ authoring inside of GENWI (then branded as iSites). Check it out here .