Jiggy - Native iPhone apps using JavaScript!
“Simply put, Jiggy is the easiest way to create applications for the iPhone (or iPod Touch). With just Jiggy and a browser, you’ll be able to write an awesome iPhone application in a matter of minutes. JiggyApps run natively on the iPhone, so there is no messing around with HTML and the limitations of Mobile Safari. At the same time, you don’t need a compiler or even a Mac, because JiggyApps are written in JavaScript.” – http://www.jiggyapp.com/
Came across a few days ago and thought I’d share, it’s incredibly nifty. Basically, with the Jiggy runtime, you write your application in pretty JavaScript and see this code bootstrapped and executed as a native iPhone application. As it’s JavaScript, the syntax is very nice too:
Plugins.load( “UIKit” );
var window = new UIWindow( UIHardware.fullScreenApplicationContentRect );
window.setHidden( false );
window.orderFront();
window.makeKey();
window.backgroundColor = [ 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 ];
var mainView = new UIView();
window.setContentView( mainView );
November 21, 2008 at 3:06 PM
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November 21, 2008 at 3:06 PM
is it possible to write a jiggy app to access system features such as the voicemail notification?
I live in canada and have a 1.1.2 OOTB iphone which i've jailbroken and updated back to 1.1.2. I use something like a turbo sim to make my rogers sim card work. When the phone is restarted or sometimes if it loses reception, I get the red voicemail dot, and there are voice messages to check. when i get a new message, and delete it, the dot goes away.
I'd like to run a jiggy application to tell my iphone to remove the dot.
Is that possible? Also, is it possible to have a jiggy application run in the background (when the screen is off?) If it IS, I could have my program constantly monitor for the dot to remove it. Not that i would require that. But with my phone I'll also get a text message that i recieved a voicemail (when i ACTUALLY get one), and that would be enough an a alert.
Thanks