According to all reports from the recent Google IO event, Google now actively advocates HTML5 Standards, and rightly so, since for us developers there is no better and more easily portable platform to develop for mobile devices. However, despite that, Android does not have a notion of 'first class' web applications. For example:
- There is no way to add an icon to the home screen that, when clicked will launch a web-based application on a WebView - The WebView does not support Gears at all - Google has not implemented HTML5 offline database access or geolocation API, and cookies are not accessible from WebView. - There is no way to publish a mobile website or web-based application on the Android Market. I am wondering: is Google planning to upgrade support for web applications to make them first class citizens in Android. More specifically, we have launched our mobile website which utilizes the HTML5 geolocation capabilities. Although our service could be useful to android users, we have no way to reach them. We tried to encapsulate the app in a WebView UI using the phonegap framework, but it fails in that Gears is not supported in the WebView, so we ended up creating an app that is a simple link to our external website. This is pretty ugly and, rightfully, we got terrible reviews. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
