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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:38:10 -0500
From: John Bedard jbedard at artsmia.org
Subject: [MCN-L] cross-platform apps?
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I see
I see some iPhone apps being developed by museums, including mine. Don't
recall seeing any announcements of cross-platform apps by museums. With the
growth of Android phones I am wondering if anybody has done or plans to do
cross-platform apps. And if not, why not.
John R. Bedard |
John,
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History has a cross-platform
(Apple Android) app called MEanderthal. I think the Canadian Museum of
Civilization's app is Apple Blackberry, coming out soon on Android too.
I think everyone wants to work cross-platform, but it takes additional
John,
You might also want to look at Phone Gap, which is an open source platform
that allows you to develop once for multiple systems using HTML and
javascript that then integrates with device-specific installations.
http://www.phonegap.com/
You can take a look at a prototype we built last year
