the iPhone client for http://riflethru.com/ is a GWT application.
I found the main drawback to using GWT for iPhone webapp development to be the speed at which Mobile Safari is able to process Javascript. The CPU in the iPhone became a factor and I found myself constantly making concessions in the design to allow for this. The fact is, the browser on the iPhone is not bad at rendering HTML, but will take much longer to achieve the same result using Javascript alone. Another factor worth considering is that Mobile Safari only caches resources that are under 25K, and GWT .cache.html files exceed that size without a problem. Remember Joe Hewitt giving his talk when he showed everyone iUI, and he kept on saying "keep it light-weight"? well GWT is not a light- weight solution. /dave On Aug 22, 11:49 am, Sean Gilligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I was obliquely referring to GWT as a way to write a WebApp > using Java and to HessianKit > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/hessiankit) as a way of using remote > Java objects in a Cocoa Touch app. > > Dave, have you used GWT on the iPhone? Any comments or demos you'd like > to share? Anyone else? > > -- Sean > > davidroe wrote: > > in addition to Sean's remarks, I can think of one other way to write > > in Java for the iPhone. > > > GWT - Google Web Toolkit -http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ > > > This allows you to write and debug your client in Java, which is then > > cross-compiled to HTML, Javascript and CSS, which you run inside > > Mobile Safari. > > > /dave > > > On Aug 21, 6:04 am, "Williams, David L - Rosslyn, VA" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Has anyone used JAVA instead of Objective-c to program the Iphone? > >> If so, is that JAVA standard? > > >> Thank You > >> David > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" 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/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
