moobile – an iPhone / iPad / Android toolkit using MooTools

It’s been a few weeks since I last blogged so I thought I’d jot down some info about a little side project I’ve been thinking of starting for a while now. I’ve tentatively called it ‘moobile’ and, as the title of the post suggests, it’s essentially to be a MooTools-powered mobile app toolkit.

I’ve spent the last week working on some initial ideas on and off and you can see the fruits of my labour at http://fakedarren.github.com (preferably on an iPhone, and definitely in a webkit browser).

I’ve got some basic styles down, with not one image in sight so far (CSS3 is amazing), and the most interesting thing so far is extending my friend’s existing Touch class with Gesture support. I can now add events to elements such as ’swipe left’ and ‘pinch’ – pretty damn cool. I want to make this very important part of the toolkit rock-solid and a joy to use, so how far it has come in such a short time is really encouraging.

Over the coming weeks I’ll be completing the HTML templates – forms need a lot of work, for instance – and I want to get a really solid set of templates and easy-to-manage CSS so theming is a cinch.

Once that is done, I’ll push on into getting animations between pages done; sliding, flipping, rotating, fading etc. That’ll keep me busy for the foreseeable future but there are a lot of other things I want to be able to support in the final version.

Check it out on your iPhones or fork it on github and let me know what features you’d like to see!