Thank you. According to their feature list most of these features are
supported: http://www.basic4ppc.com/android/why.html
Seems like they are generating Java from the Visual Basic code. Anyway we will
download and try both frameworks.
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From: Josh Handel <[email protected]>
To: John Due <[email protected]>; Discussions related to Mono for Android
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, 5 December 2011, 17:59
Subject: RE: [mono-android] Mono for Android versus Basic4android
Given its an in-house app, I would suggest you focus on what your developers
are comfortable with first.. There is probably 40 ~ 80 hours of rampup to be
near full developer velocity in Java, if you have .NET developers using Mono
for Android will cut that down (1/2 to 1/4) because they aren't dealing with
learning a new SDK and way of thinking AND a new Language.
If your developers don't use .NET then the calculus changes slightly because
you will have the burdon of learning a new language anyways..
However, one of the things I like about Mono[platform] is that you can leverage
your code files across platforms.. But that doesn't sound like its hugely
important to you.
As for Basic4Android, I would shy away from anything that doesn't do the
following (I don't know if Basic4Android does or doesn't so, these are just my
suggestions)
1) Allow you access to all Platform SDKs (MonoTouch and Mono for Android do
this)
2) Allow you to incorporate third party libraries (its not trivial, but doable
in both mono projects as well)
3) Allow you to debug (sounds silly, but try debugging PhoneGap, or the early
versions of Titanium.. Actually try debugging Titanium now! :-P)
4) Allows you to build both AppStore and Enterprise apps
5) Has a floating seat.. After all you don't know which of your developers will
be working on it, and we can never assume some 1 person will work for your
company for ever.
6) Uses the native platform way of doing UI (uses native UI Controls, and
hopefully native designers)
Hope that helps.
Josh
________________________________
From: John Due [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 9:50 AM
To: Josh Handel; Discussions related to Mono for Android
Subject: Re: [mono-android] Mono for Android versus Basic4android
This is an in-house application that will run on dedicated devices. So Android
is fine for now. Though we may want to add support for iPhone in the future.
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From: Josh Handel <[email protected]>
To: John Due <[email protected]>; Discussions related to Mono for Android
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, 5 December 2011, 17:46
Subject: RE: [mono-android] Mono for Android versus Basic4android
Do you have any plans to support other platforms (WP7 or iPhone?)..
Josh
________________________________
From: [email protected] [[email protected]]
on behalf of John Due [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 9:44 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [mono-android] Mono for Android versus Basic4android
We are checking which of the above tools is easier for development of several
Android applications.
Does anyone have any experience with both tools?
The first application should work with a local SQLite database and a remote
database (by calling a custom web service written with PHP).
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