Hi Max, There aren't any near term plans for official mobile support (see GWT blog for recent roadmap post), however it's certainly something to consider. I think that the extent of the effort required to have official support involves making specific widget implementations for those browsers that aren't based on WebKit and support JavaScript. The challenge is maintaining those widgets over time.
That said, I believe development for the iPhone or Android browser is already sufficiently supported to be able to create smooth applications. The only extra work might be creating linkers to package the generated JS slightly differently to make the application as performant as possible. Even this might not be necessary once the runAsync() facility will be available. Check out Bob Vawter's GWT Feed Reader for an example of a GWT application that works on the iPhone. Bob's GWT Feed Reader: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/web/gwt-iphone-pretty-tasty I can't say where official mobile support would fall on the team radar, but as always, patches and contributions are welcome! (and go a long way :-) Hope that helps, -Sumit Chandel On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Max <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Sumit, > > are there any plans to support mobile browsers officially in GWT? > Right now GWT is absolutely useless for mobile application development > aside from iPhone and Android (and even these are not officially > supported). > > TIA, > Max > > On Jan 7, 10:58 pm, Sumit Chandel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > As far as I know, if the mobile browsers are built from Mozilla and/or > > WebKit builds, your GWT application should work on them. However, you may > > want to reconsider the style and positioning of your application, or > perhaps > > even create a lighter version of your application, based on the browser > > you're running on and the resources available. I would also double-check > the > > following two points: > > > > 1) Which phone are planning to support in specific? Which build is it > using? > > Check if the build is in the list of supported browsers (link below). > > > > GWT Supported Browsers: > http://code.google.com/docreader/#p=google-web-toolkit-doc-1-5&s=goog... > > > > 2) Test your application on the mobile browser thoroughly. There may be > > slight differences in the mobile browser that could break certain UI > widget > > implementations, especially if it's using a custom build, in which case > you > > can create your own specialized widget and plug it in via a deferred > binding > > rule. > > > > Hope that helps, > > -Sumit Chandel > > > > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Peter Ondruška < > [email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > Dear All, > > > > > as mobile phone browsers are getting better and better (faster with > > > more memory, etc.) I am wondering if there is any way to have pages > > > generated for those browsers found in Nokia S60 mobile phones. It is > > > "Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 NokiaE71-1/100.07.76; > > > Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like > > > Gecko) Safari/413". I do not expect mobile phone browsers to handle > > > big applications like Gmail but simple applications could work I > > > guess. Am I wrong? > > > > > Peter > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" 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/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
