Hi Jolyon, But you need a mental translation from java to delphi :-)
Regards Leigh On 11 July 2014 16:17, Jolyon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > But Leigh, the point is that an Oxygene developer does not need *Oxygene > specific* support. > > When I was developing my battery widget I was using the same resources > that a Java Android developer would use, which are plentiful (ditto my > excursions into Cocoa). > > > As some sort of idea, you might look at # of tagged questions on > StackOverflow as a (crude) metric: > > Android: 500,000+ > iOS: 250,000+ > Delphi: 27,000+ > Xamarin: 3,400+ > FireMonkey: 880+ > Oxygene: 101+ > > Initially this does not look good for Oxygene. But a high proportion of > those 750,000 Android and iOS questions will be just as helpful to an > Oxygene developer (and Xamarin for that matter). Not so much for a > FireMonkey developer. > > Of the three, a FireMonkey developer is the most on their own. > > > As for availability of skills, RemObjects and Xamarin have similar > advantages - both are (or in the case of Xamarin, can be) Visual Studio > based so experience with the IDE isn't an issue. With Xamarin and > Hydrogene, language skills aren't an issue now that you can call on the > pool of C# skills. Framework skills ? Well, again we're talking about > Android SDK and Cocoa (or .NET), not some proprietary cross platform > framework (although there are elements of this with Xamarin I believe). > > Again, Delphi with FireMonkey romps home with the "Rocking Horse > Droppings" award. ;) > > > On 11 July 2014 15:51, Leigh Wanstead <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Jolyon, >> >> Thanks for your reply. >> >> I think the issue with RemObjects Oxygene is developer community size. >> Delphi is already a minority compare to .net developer population. Then >> RemObjects >> Oxygene for android, ios? I think that as rare as hen's teeth :-) >> >> If a project has no developer to hire using a tech, what will happen? :-) >> >> Anyway, by doing RemObjects Oxygene, everything is same learning curve >> like native platform except change the language to be pascal. But you have >> far small community to ask questions and get answers. Answers are not ready >> for you on the internet, you have to wait someone to answer it first. I >> already feel that xamarin developer community is too small compare to >> asp.net mvc, desktop .net etc. >> >> Regards >> Leigh >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >> Post: [email protected] >> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >> Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with >> Subject: unsubscribe >> > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with > Subject: unsubscribe >
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