As most of you are probably aware, Apple added language to their iPhone 4 SDK (which affects iPads as well) that precludes development of iPhone/iPad apps with a development tool other than their own (Objective C).
RunRev (who makes the development tool Revolution, which Stykz is built with) had been working on “RevMobile”, which would have allowed Revolution developers to create native iPhone apps, and even had an early alpha of the tool in the hands of testers.
Once Apple put out their SDK announcement, RunRev had a long discussion with Apple to see if they could make RevMobile work within their guidelines. But the bottom line was that they said “No”, meaning Stykz would have to be completely rewritten in Objective-C (or HTML5 technologies) to go to the iPhone/iPad, which may never happen since there are significant differences between Revolution and the Apple-approved tools.
Read the official blog post by RunRev.
Tags: Development tool, iPad, iPhone, Stykz
May 13, 2010 at 1:52 pm |
Man, that sucks. It would have been awesome using a touch pad of some sort to create an animation.. Hopefully the tablet Google is working on will support the Revolution or RevMobile language.
May 14, 2010 at 6:26 pm |
There have been a number of Rev developers who have stated that their going to develop for Android once RevMobile for Android is available. So when that happens, I’ll see what I can do to get Stykz ported.
September 9, 2010 at 7:50 pm |
[...] relaxed the guidelines for app development for iOS devices, basically doing a 180 from their previous position just a few months ago. This new change will allow third party cross platform development tools (yes, that even means [...]
September 12, 2010 at 5:03 am |
Well I don’t actually have an iPad, iPhone or iTouch but still, thats pretty lame.
September 13, 2010 at 12:14 am |
Agreed, but Apple just turned around and is now allowing it! See the latest post