Our pal Brent Simmons, noted developer of the renowned NetNewsWire for the for the Mac and iPhone, has just released his latest NewsGator project into the wild : TapLynx.

TapLynx lets you create an iPhone media application without a lick of Objective-C or Cocoa code. Using the SDK you can link against the TapLynx library, configure a plist, edit a few HTML files and in an amazingly short amount of time you’ll have a custom application presenting content from a variety of sources. The framework is adept at displaying, text, image and video content. The user interface is highly configurable and offers a variety hooks to customize the appearance.

I took it for a spin this morning and was able to produce this RogueSheep vanity application that featured content from this blog as well as the @postageapp twitter feed in something like 15 or 20 minutes :

Two nifty features :

• You can add custom tabs running your own code if you have Cocoa expertise.
• The application configuration can come from a URL, allowing the content and style to update dynamically without submitting a new application instance to the App Store. You can even add new tabs this way!

This is a great addition to any iPhone developer’s toolbox. We are already looking at ways this can help us with several of our clients. Thanks Brent!