A new application called UICatalog is available for download on the Samples page. This application aims at providing ELIPS Studio developers with a reference application in order to get the best of ELIPS Studio: Single codebase that makes use of unique platform user experience and capabilities. Note that this application works properly only on ELIPS Studio beta 5 or later release.
This is a good opportunity for me to come back on the key ELIPS Studio features that allows such a paradigm.

Twitteasy is a Mobile Twitter Search client made easy for Twitter Newbies and Aficionados.

It was based on the TweetMWC Elips sample and made generic. With it, you can search any combination of keywords and Twitter hashtags. Your search will be automatically saved and updated each time you launch Twitteasy. And you can compose your own tweets as well.

It has been approved for distribution on the iPhone App Store under the new license terms.

It is also available on the Android Market.

The iPad version is coming next.

[See the content of ELIPS Studio Beta 5 release, and targeted content for Beta 6 release.]

As usual, a short article to describe what's new in ELIPS Studio, this time for Beta 5 (out today), and what's coming next in Beta 6 (planned for the end of the month).

Written by Guilhem Ensuque

What has happened ?

Since Apple changed the terms of its iPhone Developer License Agreement on April 8th, our users have wondered how these changes affect their ability to create native iPhone apps with ELIPS Studio and more generally have expressed concerns about Apple’s motivations.

Why is Apple doing this ?

We at OpenPlug believe that Apple’s rationale is to preserve the uniqueness of the user experience with iPhone applications and the competitive advantage that comes with it versus other platforms. Speaking personally as a happy iPhone 3GS user, I think the iPhone and its apps ecosystem deliver the best mobile user experience on Earth today and I hope Apple and iPhone developers will continue to push the envelope to preserve that.

ELIPS Studio fits in Apple’s vision

ELIPS Studio fits perfectly with this vision. Indeed, a number of technical innovations in our product ensure that developers get the best from the iPhone and not a watered-down experience:

• ELIPS Apps run with the best performance that the iPhone hardware + OS can give because they are made of C++ compiled with the iPhone SDK compiler
• ELIPS Apps can make use of the native UI components of the iPhone so that they don’t look the same as apps built for other platforms
• ELIPS Developers can code in Objective-C, C or C++ for specific features of their Apps

ELIPS Studio allows developers to leverage the specificities of each platform in a productive way. This is very different from other cross-platform mobile development solutions that provide the same capabilities whatever the underlying device platform is, going for the lowest-common-denominator in the process. Our vision is that development tools must expose the strengths and unique features that make each mobile device different instead of coaxing developers into a one-size-fits-all development environment.