This is a brief post to log some new finds for those working in CSS, HTML and Javascript who might be daunted by programming apps for tablet and phone devices, but would like to start to build apps for their publications.
Help is at hand for book and magazine apps in the guise of Baker Framework and Laker Compendium, two apps that flew beneath my radar for a while but which show plenty of promise and already not only create book apps with a few simple steps, but also support downloads of packaged books (seeming to indicate that in app purchase won't be that far behind).
You have to be happy opening Xcode but there is little more beyond this than dragging and dropping your web files into a folder and pressing 'Run'. Creating HPub books to download is simple too, just zip all the files together and rename .zip extenstion .hpub
For those wishing to build slightly different apps along the same lines there is PhoneGap, which has already been documented and written about by Jonathan Stark in this O'Reilly book.
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