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dmkelgin
post May 13 2011, 03:51 AM
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Hi Guys,
I'm looking for some general help turning a website into a mobile app.

Here's what I want -
I want to create a webpage which is basically a timetable.
This timetable will have hyperlinks to other pages.
The other pages will have links back to the timetable.

This part I am fine with.

I then want to turn these webpages into a downloadable app which can be installed and viewed on mobile phones without the need to be connected to the Internet.

That is the part I have no idea how to go about. Any help would be greatfully received, thanks.

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Brian Chandler
post May 13 2011, 05:09 AM
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I then want to turn these webpages into a downloadable app which can be installed and viewed on mobile phones without the need to be connected to the Internet.That is the part I have no idea how to go about. Any help would be greatfully received, thanks.


Well, if you don't know how to create a "mobile app" (whatever that is, exactly), you will need to learn. I can't imagine you will find any magic buttons that just "convert" a website into a program for something else, since they are quite different things.

Unless it's a question of taking a snapshot of the website as a static html document set...
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dmkelgin
post May 13 2011, 06:10 AM
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My appologies for being unclear in my original post.

What I want to do is create a school timetable in html. It will be in a table format. It will have 5 rows for the days of the week and 6 columns for the periods. Inside each cell there will be a piece of text. The text will be the name of the subject at that time. When the user clicks on the text they will be taken to a different page with some information about that subject - teacher, room etc. and a link back to the timetable.
This I can do.

What I then want to be able to do is turn this set of webpages into a downloadable package which can be installed and viewed on someones mobile phone/ipod without them being connected to the Internet. I am guessing there would need to be differently compiled versions to run on iphone/ipod, windows and android phones.

Is this possible? Is there free software which will compile this for me?

Thanks again for any help smile.gif

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Darin McGrew
post May 13 2011, 12:37 PM
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A little work with Google turned up O'Reilly's Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, but I've never created an Android app from a web page myself.
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