Packaging HTML5 games as applications for iPhone/Android

Question

Is it possible to package HTML5 game for iPhone and Android as an application or has it to be accessed through a browser?

Answer 1

There's http://www.phonegap.com/ which is open source and cross-platform. Besides packaging your HTML 5 as a native app, it also lets you access native features of the mobile phone.

Answer 2

I can't vouch for iPhone, but in Android, a simple application with an Activity that just has one WebView would do the trick. The activity would look something like this:

public class WebApp extends Activity {
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        WebView wv = new WebView(this);
        wv.loadUrl("http://www.myapp.com/");
        setContentView(wv);
    }
}

That would make the WebView the entirety of the screen; then you would just need a loading message. Or a better option is to load HTML in the WebView so that the app can be used offline; examples of this are on the API page for WebView.

Answer 3

From ImpactJS Tools page there are:

• PhoneGap
  • Package your games into an iPhone or Android App, ready to be distributed in the App Stores.
• appMobi
  • Easily integrate and distribute your games into native iPhone and Android Apps. You don't even need a Mac or XCode to get your game into the iPhone App Store.

Answer 4

Have you checked out CocoonJS? It's by far one of the best ways to get hardware accelerated HTML5 games on iOS and Android plus they have a cloud compiler where you can upload a single zip and it will build out for multiple platforms.

Answer 5

If you want to port your game to even more platforms Nokia has a web tool application for porting to Symbian S60 devices... Web Tools for S60

They also have a newer one, which probably supports more HTML5 but I have yet to try it out...

Web Tools 2.3 for Series40

The SDK in the first one is fairly good as it also comes with a simulator so you can get an idea of how your app will