Hi, My name is Jorge and I'm a gnome user from Barcelona. Thank you for your amazing work!
I'm not sure if this is the right list to send this message so excuse me in case this is not. I recently began to read a book [1] about PhoneGap (Apache Cordova) framework [2]. If you don't know it, it's an open source framework to write mobile applications using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. How it works: * The app is a local html5 page where javascript is used to create the UI (for example with jquery mobile) * You can also use javascript to comunicate with remote web services to manage data (ex. connect to a Facebook account and download/upload photos, ...). * The framework provides a javascript api to access to the hardware devices (camera, accelerometer, ...) and to use a local sqlitle database * The final app runs in a fullscreen web browser, using the native webview of the platform (usually webkit) * The same code can be packaged for Android, iOS and lots of other mobile platforms. * There is an online Build Service to automate the packaging for each platform. I was thinking that if Gnome was a target platform for PhoneGap applications, thousand of apps [3] could be ready to hit this platform. There is a Tizen port in progress[4], but I don't know if some parts could be reused... What do you think about this idea? If it's not this particular framework, what do you think about developing gnome apps with HTML+CSS+js? Best regards, Jorge [1] http://www.apress.com/9781430239031 [2] http://incubator.apache.org/cordova/ [3] http://www.slideshare.net/AndreCharland/phone-gap-stats-growth [4] http://download.tizen.org/misc/media/conference2012/wednesday/bayview/2012-05-09-1415-1455-enabling_cordova_aka_phonegap_on_tizen.pdf _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
