I’ve been working with McKenna Consultants this summer on an iPhone app, and it’s finally been approved by Apple and is available in the App Store now! The game was designed by students Megan Dawson & Sophie Thornton of Settle College, North Yorkshire in order to help their fellow students pass their GSCE Maths exams. I’ve worked on the internals and features of the app, working with an external graphical designer in turning their designs into reality. I hope to hear soon if the app meets our competition-winners’ expectations

We used PhoneGap as a way of writing an iOS app without having to know any Objective-C (I still don’t!) and a combination of HTML5 (particularly the new localStorage capability) and Javascript, including a couple of notable libraries (jQuery Mobile for the UI and jQuery original for offsetting some of the unpleasantries of working in Javascript!).