motion-hybrid

motion-hybrid takes your existing web app and views and wraps them in a snappy native iOS interface

Add to your rubymotion project's Gemfile:

gem 'motion-hybrid'

Run bundle and install required cocoapods:

$ bundle
$ pod setup
$ rake pod:install

Create a screen class that inherits from MotionHybrid::Screen and set the base url of your web app:

# app/screens/base_screen.rb
class BaseScreen < MotionHybrid::Screen
  self.root_url = 'http://github.com'
end

Instantiate a screen and set the initial path:

# app/app_delegate.rb
class AppDelegate < PM::Delegate
  def on_load(app, options)
    open BaseScreen.new(nav_bar: true, path: '/balvig')
  end
end

By default, all GET-links are pushed onto the navigation controller stack.

<!-- index.html -->
<a href='index_2.html'>Page 2</a>

<!-- index_2.html -->
<p>This is page 2</p>

Links with anchor #modal will be opened in a modal window. Links within a modal linking to the url of the page that created it will automatically close the modal.

<!-- index.html -->
<a href='modal.html#modal'>Page 2</a>

<!-- modal.html -->
<a href='index.html'>This will close the modal</a>

Links with anchor #self will open the new url within the current view without pushing a new view on to the stack:

Any non-GET requests (form posts etc) will display the result within the current view and also automatically refresh all parent views so that pages are up to date.

Sometimes you will want to trigger native iOS functionality from the web views. This is done by intercepting URLs that you can handle using the routing api, allowing you to do things like:

class BaseScreen < MotionHybrid::Screen
  # pops up in-app email composer when clicking mailto: links
  route /^mailto:/ do
    BW::Mail.compose(to: 'bob@example.com', subject: 'In app emailing', message: 'Hi!', animated: true)
  end

  # ask for push nofitication permisions when user hits '/setup' url
  route '/setup' do
    App.delegate.register_for_push_notifications :badge, :sound, :alert
  end
end

The bridge is a small javascript connection between the web app and native app that allows you to use HTML in your web page to control parts of the native app.

All markup is contained within a div with the id motion-hybrid-bridge:

<div id='motion-hybrid-bridge'>
  <h1>This is the title</h1>
  <h2>This is a subtitle</h2>
</div>

<div id='motion-hybrid-bridge'>
  <div class='flash'>
    <h3>Congratulations!</h3>
    <p>You completed level 2</p>
  </div>
</div>

TBA