[dba-Tech] Developing Mobile Apps

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Thu Jan 12 17:52:53 CST 2012


Bryan,

I'm really glad to hear that!

Let us know how it works out for you and what you experience with developing mobile apps with PhoneGap is like.

- Hans




On 2012-01-12, at 1:34 PM, Bryan Carbonnell wrote:

> 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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