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There are tons of web-view based apps in the App stores. Phonegap bases their entire business on a similar concept.


There's a difference between a full-featured multi-screen native-feeling app implemented in a webview with Phonegap and a wrapper around an existing web site. You can do a lot of interesting things in a webview and come, for some purposes, reasonably close to a native look and feel. The previous comment was right to warn about Apple's policies.

(I spent some time playing with Phonegap but it was two years ago and a simple app took 30 seconds to launch on an iPhone 3GS. Probably significantly better now, and faster as hardware has improved.)


Declan has the right idea.

Phonegap isn't about merely packaging a website as an application. It's about using front-end web technologies to build applications. There's no rule against that, even if it's possible to use it to break other rules.

What there is a rule against is simply packaging a website up as an application. That's what this service does.

While you may get away with it, there's a strong chance you won't. It's only fair to warn people before they spend money.




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