Download iPhone Tool Software Based On New Prototyping Platform Soon

Posted on April 30, 2008
Filed Under iPhone General, iPhone Software

Those companies that intend to create apps for Apple’s iPhone will be able to build and try the latest programming template from iRise, a new prototyping platform. The El Segundo company introduced the template at the Software 2008 trade show in Las Vegas.

Companies has sold about 1.7 million units in the year’s first quarter, and respectable Apple forecasts 10 million iPhones in the market by the end of 2008. The case is that application iPhone builders had to get the code for being compatible with Safari browser. But Apple recently released software development kit that enables them to create applications for running directly on the phone.

The iRise software can create prototypes that simulate an application but don’t have any underlying code. This enables programmers and exterior developers design an application without any hurdles just for demonstration. Then decision-makers can see the software in functions and sign off on the project.

The template imitates the iPhone’s standard menu icons and can use sliders, zoom in and out of screens. Application developers can use it to create custom buttons, administer menu icons or designate the effects of actions, like double-tapping a button.

The iPhone simulations won’t run on an actual iPhone, rather on a desktop, manipulating with the virtual phone using a mouse. An iRise-based tool for using simulations can be downloaded for companies to send simulations to consumers and support feedback.

OneSpring design company in Atlanta already uses the iRise application simulation toolkit and calls it the SimDK (watch the video). OneSpring assisted in defining applications based on some other mobile platforms and that showed that iPhone’s display capabilities suggest more freedom for designers, while most applications for mobile devices are text-heavy.

The users of iRise can download iPhone tool software for free, which costs about $5,000 per seat. The OneSpring SimDK will start its proliferation from May 1 for $495.

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