On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Evan Ruff <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jason, > > I actually downloaded a January 7th image I found on the web. Do you > know if that version has the Webkit/SquirrelFish updates in it?
Nope, sorry. I know it's a lot of work, but building from the repo may be a good idea (there's been a lot of change since early January). jason > > Sorry if this thread has kinda gotten a little off the tracks, guys. > > E > > On Apr 8, 12:57 pm, Jason Parekh <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Evan Ruff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hey guys, >> >> > Little stream of conciseness here, sorry if this is a bit long/ >> > disjoined. >> >> > I was wondering if anyone had done any work with GWT and the Android >> > Browser. While I'm getting basic functionality to work, the general >> > speed, responsiveness and user experience seem very sluggish and, >> > well, sorta bad. Another issue I'm having is locating a group to go to >> > for support, examples and help. While I'm interested in GWT with >> > Android, it seems that Android Developers Group is really only >> > interested in native apps. Where to go for Browser specific help? >> >> I recommend the Android lists--some members of the Android browser >> team monitor those lists (I don't think any of them monitor this >> list). Also, filing bugs on the tracker is always recommended. >> >> As for trying out cupcake, you can build an emulator running Cupcake >> with the instructions athttp://source.android.com/download. >> >> jason >> >> >> >> > Anyways, some of the particulars I've run into: >> >> > What group to go to? >> >> > 1. Issues Controlling the viewport: No matter what I do, I can't seem >> > to get proper control of the viewport. Editing the meta data, overflow >> > CSS properties, insuring that the window's objects are small, etc. I'm >> > continually getting white space borders and stuff like that. This >> > causes weird finger behavior, especially allowing the user to browse >> > into the white space. >> >> > 2. HTML5/Gears Wrappers: I was wondering if the Gears API has an >> > implementation to support HTML5 storage/cache issues in case of a non- >> > gears enabled client. If not, is there a library anywhere that >> > supports the encapsulation for GWT? >> >> > 3. MouseListeners: The OS seems to swallow up the MouseUp event in >> > order to do detection of scroll/drag type stuff. I guess I understand >> > why it does it for the drag type thing, but it never fires MouseUp >> > even after the drag is done. Ehh... fair enough, I guess. >> >> > 4. Focus Panel ClickListeners: When I click a focus panel, a orange >> > circle shows up in the upper/left corner with what seems like a cursor >> > in it? (http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff2/gte619n/ >> > selectBubble.png) Also seems like a non-trivial delay between the >> > press and then a following action. Makes the app seem especially >> > sluggish. >> >> > 5. Image Loading/Display: Seems really slow. Even when doing >> > background repositioning to flip sprites. Additionally, the images >> > don't seem to load in any fixed order and method. Also seems to hang >> > when loading images (http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff2/gte619n/ >> > selectBubble.png) I've attempted to get around this by doing Prefetch >> > and such, but nothing seems to work. Seems like it needs to talk >> > itself into refreshing the screen after loading finishes (even in >> > localhost in the emulator) >> >> > 6. Visibility hide/show: Very sluggish in general. >> >> > 7. Scroll inside divs: Flat out doesn't support this. I guess the >> > Cupcake release, bringing the browser up to Nov 2008 Webkit, should >> > fix this but I still don't have any visibility into that release. >> >> > Has anyone compiled some best practices to use when building an >> > Application for Android? Maybe even some widgets or JSNI breakouts to >> > better manage the behavior and performance of the app? >> >> > Thanks! >> >> > Evan > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
