On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Avdhesh Yadav <a...@avdheshyadav.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Avdhesh Yadav <a...@avdheshyadav.com> > > wrote: > > > Hi All > > > > > > Can anyone explain in more details what are pros/cons of Native Android > > > Client and HTML5 client. > > > > > > I have created a separate module for PhotArk HTML5 > > > client(photark-client-android-html5). > > > The older one photark-client-android(It should be renamed > > > to photark-client-android-native) will host native Photark Android > > client. > > > > > > > > > > In summary, you can classify mobile applications in three categories : > > > > Native : native to the platform, have full access to device > > functionality, and you have to build one application for every > > platform (android, ios, etc). > > > > Browser : a html application hosted somewhere, maybe with a ui theme > > that resembles the phone interface. in this scenario it's one > > application for all devices, but you lose the ability to access device > > specific functionality. > > > > Hybrid : using frameworks such as PhoneGap (a.k.a Apache Cordova) you > > build one html5 application and the framework can generate a native > > app for each supported device. In this scenario, you can still have > > access to the device functionality. > > > Yes I think Hybrid is the way to go. > +1 > > Then shall we use Apache Cordova(seems it is pretty recently started incubating in Apache) or have any other concerns ? WDYT ? > > > > You can find some useful information on the HTML5 track from last QCon > > > > http://qconsf.com/sf2011/tracks/show_track.jsp?trackOID=513 > > > > What I was proposing is for us to work on a hybrid application that > > leverage frameworks such as PhoneGap to help minimize the work needed > > to support different platforms. > > > > -- > > Luciano Resende > > http://people.apache.org/~lresende > > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > -- > Avdhesh Yadav > http://www.avdheshyadav.com > http://twitter.com/yadavavdhesh > -- Subash Chaturanga Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka Blog - http://subashsdm.blogspot.com/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/subash89
