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\"iPad<\/p>\n

We’ve been contacted by Automated Home reader (Mr Flibble<\/a>) on his interesting step-by-step guide on building a custom iPad web app for the X10 CM15 Pro on Mac OSX.\u00a0 Even more interestingly he plans to release an open source version soon….<\/p>\n

“…The best part about being able to write your own PHP is that you can make an interface that ideally suits your house and how you naturally want a remote to look.\u00a0 I thought at first about making an iPad version of Domia’s 10″ PictureTouch using photographs and imagemaps, but I decided to make it a bit more advanced than this.<\/p>\n

I wanted it to look vaguely like a native iPad app and whilst I thought about using a framework (if I had several weeks to kill I’d reverse engineer AdLib) I decided it’d be quicker to make up my own interface with images and text.\u00a0 I designed it on Firefox a couple of days before getting my iPad, then did some final tweaking when it arrived. I wanted an interface that would fill the entire browser but not require scrolling.<\/p>\n

I wrote the initial interface for landscape mode, which I plan to be in most of the time whilst using the device. Annoyingly Apple decided not to make the screen 16:9, but I came up with a way of fitting everything on…”<\/p>\n

Read the Full Guide Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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