Rather than arguing this point, the correct answer is to provide both
and let the application developer choose.
Do you guys know how old this argument is? Hint: It predates Java.
Steve
On 2013-10-22 6:17 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira wrote:
Even the most fab skins or CSS is not going to get us away from the need to
integrate JavaFX controls with true native controls. As has been pointed
out, there are some native controls on both iOS and Android for which there
is no JavaFX equivalent and this will always be the case. Even if someone
were to develop near identical lightweight controls in JavaFX, they would
need to behave slightly differently on iOS than they do on Android and vice
versa.
I don't think this is exactly this straight forward. Ideally you would want
to have this kind of native behavior on every platform. But having this
native behavior involves having a different version of your app for each OS
you want to deploy in, which might not be what the developers want.
Remember JavaFX is a cross platform development kit and the major reason a
developer would choose JavaFX over doing native mobile development is that
his app can run on a variety of mobile platforms: windows 8, ipad, android,
iPhone, etc with the same code base and *MOST* importantly with much less
development time than building an app for each platform.
For the sake of development time an app that doesn't go against any of the
different platforms UX but that has the least common denominator so that
each user in each different platform understands the UI might be a better
solution for the sake of development time. One such example is the back
button that appears when you drill down a list on an ios app but doesn't
appear in an android app because every android phone as a physical back
button.
I do agree with you that there are some places where a native looking
control is ideal and doesn't involve any extra effort from the developer to
customize it for the given platform like for instance comboboxs where a
kind of wheel appears where the user can choose an option, or input
controls where the native keyboard pops up.
Thanks, best regards,
