>
> Out of interest, does anyone here develop Android apps?
>
> >From a business app point of view it seems a better platform than
> iPhone/iPad simply because you don't need to put your app on the
> store, or get it approved by Apple.
>
I am developing one at the minute using Appcelerator Titanium. This lets
you target iPhone, Android and Blackberry from one codebase - it
basically allows you to develop in JavaScript instead of Java (Android)
or Objective C (iPhone). For the latter you still need a Mac and to be
signed up for the Apple walled garden, and of course they have to
approve your apps. This isn't the case with Android however you
potentially have the problem of testing on multiple hardware devices and
versions of Android, although I suspect this 'fragmentation' isn't as
bad as people think. Basically starting now I would only worry about
Android 2.1 and 2.2.
Titanium is unique among the mobile toolkits in that it uses native
components - your PhoneGaps et al create web applications that run in
the device's browser and don't use native controls etc. You can also
take this approach with Titanium.
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Alan Bourke
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