A bunch of games are done in Lua using various frameworks (which I'm not really familiar with). And Titanium seemed impressive when I tried it out (very superficially), and I've heard of people using it successfully. I haven't seen anything convincing done with Ruby.
Depending on the app, however, the dream of cross-platform development might be a little unattainable. Apart from the language differences etc, just porting an app screen-for-screen from one platform to another tends to be pretty obvious to the people using it. Users of either platform tend to have incompatible expectations of how things will work. I'm by no means an expert though; I've mainly been involved in building the backends for apps on both platforms, and have had pretty close contact with the developers on both teams. That, and a fair bit of reading. (And making a PhoneGap app on both platforms, but I wouldn't recommend it except for the most trivial apps.) I think the best non-game apps are written natively for both platforms; if you're happy to make compromises, one of the frameworks might be the right choice. Simon. On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 20:38, Mike Bailey <m...@bailey.net.au> wrote: > http://jquerymobile.com hit 1.0 in November. I've had a little play with it > and was quite impressed. > > I also found a great image gallery at http://www.photoswipe.com/ > > - Mike > > > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Robert Gravina <robert.grav...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hello from Tokyo! >> >> I've been living under a rock as far as Rails and the surrounding >> ecosystem has progressed over the last couple of years while I >> maintained a Rails 2.3 app enviously looking on as everyone played >> with all the new cool toys. Well, I still have to do that next year >> but may get some time to develop some smartphone mobile applications, >> or at least front-ends for some Rails app... probably nothing too >> taxing, maybe audio/video playback but that's about it aside from your >> usual tap-process-change the UI stuff. >> >> So, just wondering if any of you esteemed ladies and gentlemen have >> used any of the mobile frameworks out there, like Titanium etc., and >> can recommend any of them? Do you use HTML/CSS/Javascript >> cross-platform, or do you develop two apps in plain Objective-C and >> Java? Or Ruby compiled to something that runs on the phone? Or some >> other setup that I've never heard of due to living under the >> aforementioned rock for so long? >> >> Some or all of these features would be nice (assuming that you use one >> of the cross-platform frameworks): >> >> * Being able to target iPhone and Android without rewriting the whole >> application. >> * Ruby or JavaScript-based development. >> * Open Source >> >> I guess that's about it. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Robert >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > - Mike > > e. m...@bailey.net.au > > w. mike.bailey.net.au > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
