Dawn FYI wrapping a browser in both android and iphone is very easy - and actually similar code - they both use the webkit library so you just create a minimal app that draws a browser and is set to a certain url - you can then capture the back button etc so as to do what is required. - usually only about 20 lines of code and it is similar code for each. It also scales the site to the correct dimensions to fill the screen so works really well. There are services that will actually do this for you like https://build.phonegap.com/, tho if you want to do an ios one you still need your apple dev key.
Rgds Symeon. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dawn Wolthuis Sent: 23 May 2011 00:50 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Pondering recent thread on compact framework I agree. We will be migrating to html 5 soon but even where we are today, the pages work on the iPhone family (including iPod touch, iPad) as well as on android. So, while I can imagine preparing a Java wrapper for android and perhaps even an objective-c wrapper for apple to wrap the web site (not as if I know just what that would take), I really do not want to write separate apps for each possible device. Writing a web application with a UI that is good for a phone and also works well for a desktop/laptop/pad computer should mean we can single-source an app for all such platforms (knock on wood), even if specifying different css for different devices. I can imagine writing phone-OS-specific apps for something that can be run without being on the web, but for many SaaS or old-fashioned data processing apps, html 5 pages seems like a good idea to me. --dawn On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Kevin King <[email protected]> wrote: > Symeon said "For mobile dev i think the way forward for many is html5 and > css3". I wholeheartedly agree. > > While the bragging rights may be different for creating a webapp vs. a > "true" mobile app in Java, C, etc., the features, portability, and > maintainability available today with frameworks like jQuery Mobile are just > astounding. And the price ain't bad either. Then again, being able to > create a respectable mobile webapp with nothing more than a simple editor > is > all so... Multivalue. > > -Kevin > http://www.PrecisOnline.com > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Take and give some delight today _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1375 / Virus Database: 1509/3653 - Release Date: 05/22/11 _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
