Companies that are planning to create applications for the iPhone can now build and test prototypes using a special programming template from iRise.
California-based iRise, a company known for selling prototype platforms for various types of applications for more than six years, introduced it at the Software 2008 trade show, which was held in conjunction with the Las Vegas Interop.
Application builders that aim on reaching iPhone users currently have to get their codes to run on the device’s Safari browser. However, with the release of the recent SDK, developers can now write applications and run them directly on the iPhone.
The iRise software suite was designed to create prototypes that look and behave like applications without the underlying code, allowing both in-house and other programmers to design an application easily for demonstration purposes. Business executives or other interested parties could view how the applications work and
According to iRise Chief Marketing officer Mitch Bishop, the mock-up tells interested parties more than description pages. Bishop explains that in traditional business, companies don’t get to see the actual application live until its complete.
Over 180 customers, some from the Fortune 500 companies, use iRise for their respective projects, including portals, web-based applications and SAP implementations. The company already has some customers using their latest iPhone template.
Bishop said that the iPhone template could simulate all of iPhone’s standard user actions and menus. As such, application designers can now use the template in creating custom buttons, manipulating menu icons and defining various actions such as double tapping a button.
The iRise template for iPhones are free to all users of iRise, which costs $5,000 per seat. The OneSpring iPhone SimDK for iRise was launched on May 1 at $495.
