This project is a trans-compiler from (a subset of) Apple's Objective-C (ObjC) into ECMAScript (JavaScript). It takes ObjC classes and trans-compiles them into ECMAScript code which can be executed in a web browser. Furthermore a basic library is provided that wraps a (very small) subset of the iOS' UIKit framework.

The current status of this project is proof-of-concept. It's possible to trans-compile ObjC classes into ECMAScript but there's no Ajax library. The code of the trans-compiler is not ready to be released yet but you can have a look at the Hello World example in the Downloads section. The Xcode version can be compiled in Xcode and run in the iPhone simulator (iPhone SDK 4 is required because we use blocks). The ECMAScript version can be run in a web browser (we've tested the generated code in Safari 5, Firefox 3.6 and Chrome 5 as well as in modern mobile browsers).

It's sufficient to trans-compile the files in the directory CWTClasses. The trans-compiler generates a file called demo.js which can be used in a web browser together with demo.html and cwtcore.js. The current version of the trans-compiler uses Narwhal:

narwhal cwt.js HelloWorld-Xcode/CWTClasses/ > HelloWorld-JS/demo.js

WHAT'S NEW (added recently)

• IKStorageManager with sessionStorage and localStorage (HTML5 wrappers),
• IKLocationManager (HTML5 wrapper),
• IKTimer (see IKTimer and TimerExample),
• IKDeferredOperation, IKIterativeOperation,
• declarative UI (see DeclarativeUIExample).

TO DO (what we're working on now)

• database API (HTML5 wrapper)
• basic UI widgets.