Nice idea, but the sample code they show in the screenshot uses "FALSE" instead of NO (the Obj-C standard boolean literal).<p>I'm not sure how they did that (#define?) but stay far, far away. Imagine if you opened up a Ruby codebase and found out I had aliased NO to be the same as the language builtin false... yeesh.<p>Also, setting boolean instance variables to NO in init is silly since Obj-C objects are calloc'd, so all ivars are guaranteed to start with default values (nil/0/NO).
From all the app code generators I've seen and used, the experience is absolutely horrendous. Memory leaks, does not five you full access into the API etc... It's a lot easier to suck it up and learn Objective-C than having to deal with these tools.
I think this is a cool idea, but I think it might make sense to aim it at the Titanium platform. As a Titanium developer myself, I think this would go over extremely well in our community. I would assume that anyone who is comfortable enough in Obj-C wouldn't really want to use an app builder like this, but titanium devs are already using a "builder" of sorts since they are using the framework. Just a thought!
Nice idea, but it seems like the only kind of apps you can build are apps that takes stuff from the web and put it inside the app.<p>Well done that they have been able to build it though. How do you think they are porting the html/css code to Obj-C?
How is this any different than building the GUI using built-in Storyboards/Interface Builder?<p>If your app does anything more than just displaying content, it still seems like you'll have to jump into the code.
Well, so easy a caveman can do it!<p>Except the product will also looks like it's designed by a caveman.. :D
But pretty cool for the everyday idea man out there