Hi Jolyon, Thanks for your input.
But by using RemObjects, you cannot get benefits from writing code once for all platforms i.e. android, ios, windows 8 phone like Xamarin.Forms do. You have to write multiple sets of code for each platform which means maintenance nightmare and delay release etc. Regards Leigh On 11 July 2014 16:42, Jolyon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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