Leigh, When it comes to gleaning insights from examples, you get far more benefit from a translation than from a blank sheet of paper. ;)
And making a translation from Java to Pascal (or C# if using Xamarin) is really not that hard, or shouldn't be for anyone who is - or claims to be - a software developer. Certainly not one with ambitions to develop for multiple, disparate devices. imho. ;) On 11 July 2014 16:32, Leigh Wanstead <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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