Thanks Symeon. When we get to this point (not really soon), this will be very helpful. I had heard at one point that Apple was going to clamp down on apps that were simply wrappers on web sites, but I have not heard more about that (and I don't live in that world at this point).
As an aside, I told Java students that they could apply to work on an android app rather than a standard JRE app for a Programming II course last semester. Two (out of 13) of them did and I was very impressed. One deployed to a phone, the other to an emulator. It isn't a piece of cake, but it has some good libraries (spec'ing of screens using xml, for example). It is an entirely different run-time engine, written by Google but not as a JVM, so the legal side of this should be interesting to watch. --dawn On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Symeon Breen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Take and give some delight today _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
