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Originally Posted by Sunny Day

How would the user use this (the person who bought this), when they want to use the app do they connect to the web site, or is it all self contained, is it a self contained app, or would one really be selling in the app store the ability to conect to a part of a web site, also if it worked that way, there would be no way to stop anyone accessing the web site for free.

What would be very usefull for me would be to be able to make my app as a web app, then have a way to convert it to a native app so I can put it in the app store, if what your saying can turn a web app into a native app, then thats really good for me as I have a great program that makes web apps with ease, but one cannot sell a web app, plus I dont want users to have to connect to the web to use my app, I want them to have it on the iphone.

The UIViewWeb sounds like it just points to a web page and the person using it would need to connect to the web to use my app, is that correct? So it is not actually on the iphone, the user, the one who buys the app, 'has to' connect to the net to use the app, am I right? If so, then this isnt what I am looking for as I need it on the phone. Not a web app, people will not buy a web app.

As I said above - a UIWebView does indeed point to a web page - it's an embedded browser.

There are many ways to prevent users from seeing your page in their desktop browser (the first of which would be to not advertise the URL) - passwording it behind SSL is the first one that comes to mind.

You can also browse LOCAL html files (i.e. within the application resources) with a UIWebView - so again, you could be responsible for building the html side of things, and simply add the to your iPhone package and rebuild whenever necessary - but now you are starting to get into having to know how to do builds in XCode etc. which, although not difficult, is tricky for a beginner.

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