Don't buy the books, there is plenty online. This new unified standard sounds great to me. I would like to port all my apps to iPhone and Pre so this may make it easier without wasting months of coding.
On Feb 16, 2:50 pm, aivdesign <[email protected]> wrote: > sources:http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/carriers_connect_to_rival_apples...http://www.besttechie.net/2010/02/15/att-launching-rival-app-store-wi... > > http://www.wholesaleappcommunity.com/ > In addition, the alliance will utilise existing technical standards, > rather than creating new ones to allow developers to access operators’ > assets, for example network capabilities or API’s (Application > Programming Interfaces) more easily. In practice this means that > developers will only have to create one version of their application > and this can be used on multiple types of devices and operating > systems (such as Symbian, Android, Windows etc) which is not the case > today. > ********************************************************** > > I like the idea of the Alliance, it is very logical. It rasies a > question for me though. How do they intend to run apps seamlessly > accross multiple operating systems? Will the apps all have to be > developed in something like Java? I am studying mobile app > development, targeting the Android OS, and using Java. I was about to > order a load of books(eg hello android) on developing apps for Android > today, but I worry the new Alliance platform/technology might render > these books and my initial studies obselete in some way. > > What do you guys think? Is it still worth getting the books or shall I > wait until more is revealed about this new cross platform app > development system. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
