[dba-Tech] Developing Mobile Apps

Hans-Christian,

Thanks for putting me on to PhoneGap. I just got approval from my boss to
go ahead with a cross-platform mobile app pilot.

She was very excited about the proof of concept apps I wrote.

I get to do development work again. Woo hoo!

-- 
Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com
On Nov 23, 2011 8:12 PM, "Hans-Christian Andersen" <hans.andersen at phulse.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi Arthur,
>
> If you want a platform agnostic app, might I suggest developing Phonegap.
This will allow you to develop your app like a web application using tools
that may perhaps already be familiar to you (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, etc).
To add to that, you could use a web platform like Sencha Touch (or jquery
mobile, though I believe Sencha touch has better performance and features).
>
> Developing it for Android will not make it platform agnostic and will
significantly reduce your audience (especially a paying audience).
>
> The downside is that there is a limit to what you can do (ie. making 3D
games or photo editing software).
>
> Have a look at Phonegap though. They support quite a range of platforms.
Oh, and they are based in Vancouver as well.
>
> Best regards,
> Hans-Christian Andersen
>
>
> On 23 Nov 2011, at 11:11, Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>
wrote:
>
> > On 11/23/2011 1:05 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> >> I have an idea for an ever-expanding mobile app, which consists almost
> >> entirely of unrelated tables. My current sketch involves about a dozen
> >> tables, all of them read-only: they will serve as on-the-spot lookups
and
> >> seldom if ever change (and any changes will be made by me, not the
> >> end-user). Think of it as an on-line reference.
> >>
> >> Never having tried to write a mobile app, any suggestions for tools to
use
> >> in tackling this? I would like the app to be platform-agnostic if
possible.
> > Eclipse and its Android Development plugin.
> >
> > PB
> >
> > -----
> >
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >> Arthur
> >>
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