[dba-Tech] The big change

Disfortunately I don't have the real thing.  Still have a stupid phone and
no tablet.

However, B4A appears to be able to emulate a wide variety of devices.  So
that will suffice for the time being and I can maybe see the difference
among devices.  

So now I'm wondering if you develop an app do you have to send different
versions of the app depending on the target device.  

Meantime, our contract with Verizon has expired on 4 of the five lines on
our family plan and Pundit is asking for a smart phone so it may be time. Of
course the data pan is $40 per month per line so with taxes and fees we're
into another $1000 a year.  Right now between us we don't use 100 minutes a
month.  

Of course I can develop for a long time with the emulator and upload to my
son's phone and tablet for beta testing.

R


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 4:30 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The big change

I don't currently  use an emulator.  With B4A Bridge on a target device,
you can work with the real thing.

If I ever get around to building a Store app that will have to work on lots
of devices with different screen sizes, I guess I will have to do so.


-- 
Stuart 

On 9 Sep 2013 at 16:10, Rocky Smolin wrote:

> I fired up Basic4Android today.  Not a slam dunk but looks like a good way
> to develop an android app.  Bus man's holiday, I guess.  I don't need it
for
> my career but it's time to play with phones and tablets.  My Access career
> is about done.
> 
> I did get a button installed on the emulator phone and clicked it and it
> said "Hello World!" :)
> 
> R
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 3:55 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The big change
> 
> Jim,
> 
> I agree with most of what you said and some of what your citations said.
> Clearly the marketplace has shifted, and we dinosaurs who put on our
> blinkers and see the rapidly-dimishing market for desktop apps
(irrespective
> of programming language)... I for one Refuse to die in the asphalt
> tar-sands. Thank God for Alpha Anywhere to lead me out of these tar-sands.
> Were it not for that company, I would fold my tent and steal away like
Arabs
> in the night (that's not a slur but a vaguely recollected poem or story
from
> Rudyard Kipling, or possibly someone else; memory fails, in direct
> proportion to age).
> 
> A.
> 
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