Has anyone out there given RubyMotion <http://www.rubymotion.com/> a whirl yet?
It's in-built testing and inspection frameworks look really cool.. Here at ProjectProject, we built a bunch of apps in PhoneGap<http://phonegap.com/>over the past two years but have recently migrated over to Appcelerator Titanium <http://www.appcelerator.com/> (I think Aleksey mentioned this earlier in the thread). Our experience has been: PRO: Both of these JavaScript based frameworks were useful in enabling some of less technical graphics guys to modify apps without the overhead of learning Objective C PRO: Titanium allows you to get up and running super-quick and has a pretty well documented API CON: PhoneGap can perform perceivably slower then a native app given the WebKit overhead CON: Phonegaps CSS and window management can be really obscure and finicky and sometimes leads to weird 'screen placement' bugs CON: Apparently porting a complicated Titanium app to Android required a lot of work (aleksey?) Right now, we are building all our new projects in Titanium but this RubyMotion definitely looks interesting.. Thoughts? On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 8:24:00 PM UTC+11, rgravina 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/uRHKmcG9MlMJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
