I built an app using jquery mobile and phonegap... It is good to develop
the interface and controllers without having to run on a simulator, but
once on the phone, I thought it was really slow. A bit frustrating to be
honest. I was blown away by the rubyMotion video. I will give it a go as
soon as one of you guys in the list write a scaffold for it hehehe.

Fabio.

On Friday, 6 July 2012, Jason Kotchoff wrote:

> 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
>>
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