I recently did some prototyping with Flash/Flex/AIR, and it seemed like it
worked well when I tested the same codebase on iOS and Android, and I was
able to develop and test on all my devices (iOS and Android) from Windows.
 And it provided a decent emulator for quick turnaround time.

Sam

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Rakesh <[email protected]> wrote:

> It definitely is not about padding my CV!!!
>
> From the answers, I can see its not easy to choose a path.
>
> Keep the suggestions coming though.
>
> Rakesh
>
> On 9 April 2012 22:07, Robert Casto <[email protected]> wrote:
> > There are more considerations than a resume builder or making sure the
> > application is a perfect fit for the platform. Sometimes you need speed
> to
> > market and want to target both platforms, or you want something that
> works
> > consistently so you can support it easily and document it for users
> easily.
> > There is a lot of cost building 2 completely separate applications. I'm
> > opting for the jQueryMobile/PhoneGap option and though it won't be a
> perfect
> > fit, it will get me there and customers are not going to be very picky.
> If
> > your application is the only choice they have, they might be happy to
> have
> > it on their phone even though it is a different user experience than the
> > other apps.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:01 PM, phil swenson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> If one of your goals is building your resume, I wouldn't mess with
> >> these 3 party frameworks that "wrap" mobile dev.  Also, the results
> >> aren't as nice and the idioms are different on each platform, so these
> >> apps become "least common denominator" apps that look amateurish IMO.
> >>
> >> Even when you wrap it, it's still a PITA to test and deploy.  In the
> >> case of iOS, you still need to compile in Xcode on a Mac and deal with
> >> all the provisioning stuff.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Rakesh <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi guys,
> >> >
> >> > I know next to nothing about creating IOS/Android apps except that
> >> > things change constantly so I wanted to get the group's advice on
> >> > something I am considering developing soon.
> >> >
> >> > The requirements are initially quite modest:
> >> >
> >> > 1. Ability to look up ingredients and show related content.
> >> > 2. Search for ingredients.
> >> > 3. Be available off line.
> >> > 4. Easy to develop across ISO and Android.
> >> >
> >> > Not sure about the last one, do I have to create 2 projects and manage
> >> > them separately? I've heard there are third party applications where
> >> > you write once in Javascript(I think) and it cross compiles down to
> >> > both OS's.
> >> >
> >> > Is it practical to do both as a newbie to mobile development? Should I
> >> > just concentrate on Android (since I know Java)?
> >> >
> >> > Any advice appreciated!!
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> >
> >> > Rakesh
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