| ??? 04/13/11 07:48 Modified: 04/13/11 07:57 Read: times |
#181836 - Creating iPhone apps? |
One of the age-old problems in embedded systems (especially small embedded systesm - as appropriate to the 8051) is how to provide a user interface for configuration / maintenance / diagnostics / etc...
Traditionally, the UART has been used to talk to either a dumb terminal or some proprietary PC app, or similar. With everything getting ever more "connected", it is becoming increasingly popular to provide a browser interface (probably less suitable at the 8051 end). But this still requires the user to have a PC and an internet connection. With the popularity of so-called "smart phones" (iPhone et al) and their apps, has anyone here done a smart phone app as a user interface to a small(-ish) embedded system? Again, this is probably not suitable to most 8051-level systems (due to the added cost of the connectivity), but could be useful more generally. |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Creating iPhone apps? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| added cost of the connectivity | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Web server dongle | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Code space | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| HTML isn't big | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| "only" (sic) 8919 bytes | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| All depends on target etc | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| You could do a lot in 1kByte | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
It isn't the page itself that consumes code space | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Apps | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Evil incarnate | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| hurdles | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Apple "openness" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Free | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Agree to disagree | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No, quite a lot is missing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| But still sufficient to be useful | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No, definitely usable even if crippled | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| you misunderstood me | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| One More thing | 01/01/70 00:00 |