Comments on: iPhone and Android Web Application Frameworks

By: Damon

Damon — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:12:54 +0000

@florin – Great point mate. If you get a chance shoot me an email through my contact us page or connect via LinkedIn. I’ve got some stuff in the pipeline at the moment that I’ll probably blog about sometime, but it would definitely benefit from someone with your frankness and critical eye.

Cheers,
Damon.

By: florin

florin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:06:14 +0000

Why is it that none of the mentioned frameworks have good documentation except short introductions on how to setup an IDE or other minimal info? I’m interested in android development and there’s scarcely any information about it. More so, the tendency is to rely on ruby or python even if javascript is the language that matters?

By: Roy Shepherd

Roy Shepherd — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:33:52 +0000

Fount this product on a web search. However, I did not find any independent reviews or comments and never tried it myself. http://developer.openplug.com

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By: Olofo

Olofo — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:27:14 +0000

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By: Damon

Damon — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:05:31 +0000

Thanks to both Tom and Keith for adding their 2 cents on this. I’m glad to hear Keith say medium term for web, because I think last time we spoke he was saying long term (but you can see he does qualify this with “a few years away”). I’m banking on it being closer to 18 months, but I’m a bit of an optimist.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:45:24 +0000

While the web team can use JQuery etc its unlikely they were skilled enough to invent sometime like jQuery. jQuery takes something complex and makes it easier – we are beginning to see the same thing in the iPhone apps. Some are at the code level e.g. the Three20 library of useful components and some are higher e.g. the unity game SDK, the forthcoming adobe tools and tools from companies like ours, our Oompf tool makes is easy to publish news, wikis, locations and structured data. These tools will get even easier to use.

In the medium term I do believe the web will ‘win’ and you will be able to create iphone apps from web tech that you can SELL on the app store. They will have access to the entire cocoa API thru JS equivalents following W3C standards where they exist. I do think this is a few years away.

By: Tom Adams

Tom Adams — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:12:52 +0000

@nick As Damon says, choosing a language/tech stack depends very much on the kinds of applications you are building. While I think in the next 5+ years we will be moving towards webapps, your choice now really depends on the type of applications you are looking to build. Most of the applications we build could not easily be built as web apps.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:32:48 +0000

Hey Damon,

Thanks for the speedy response. I’ll definitely keep my eye on this page and read updates with interest.

Thanks once again,

Nick