Re: jQuery for Mobile -- WEB400

I think we will see a great proliferation of applications in this space and perhaps the number of individual applications will out number larger applications. My take on it is this:

My web apps have many discreet components that are tied together on multi-tabbed pages. Most of the components are calling Ajax server side routines to retrieve and update data. These are generally small, fast "widget" types of apps and so as I began to evaluate the mobile web and mobile app implementation of these same components, it has been relatively easy to take just a few lines of Javascript and create a web page that displays and updates just that "widget". So the mobile *web* implementation has been pretty straightforward.

The mobile app development is a little different because I need to evaluate just how much data is being pushed and whether or not it makes sense to "cache" the data locally on the mobile device so it can still be functional, to some extent, when it is disconnected. That just adds some device side coding.

I still hope to produce a couple of apps this week. One that is a mobile web app. One that is that same but can run in a "disconnected" state as a mobile app.

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.asaap.com
www.opensource4i.com

On 10/19/2010 8:30 AM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

There were a couple of additional resources at their web site, aside from the
library and demos, which were interesting. A chart from Gartner showed Android
market share grow from 1.6% in 2009 to 9.6% in 2010. During the same period,
Microsoft Mobile shrank from 10.2% to 6.8%. Symbian 44.3%, Reacher in Motion
19.4%, iPhone 15.4%.

Another interesting trend is that WebKit based browsers are being adopted by all
the big platforms, in newer releases. Interesting to see the competition
pulling away from Microsoft.

Quoting from an IBM press release this month:

"With the proliferation of these mobile devices, industry analysts are
predicting mobile applications sales will undergo massive growth over the next
three years, with estimates of mobile application revenues expanding from $6.2
billion this year to nearly $30 billion by 2013."

"According to the survey, more than half of all IT professionals â 55 percent --
expect mobile software application development for devices such as iPhone and
Android, and even tablet PCs like iPad and PlayBook, will surpass application
development on all other traditional computing platforms by 2015."

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32674.wss

Those are pretty bold predictions. What do you think? Will development of
mobile apps surpass desktop apps?

-Nathan

----- Original Message ----
From: Pete Helgren<pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries<web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sun, October 17, 2010 9:23:56 AM
Subject: [WEB400] jQuery for Mobile

Since there has been some discussion along these lines I am passing
along the availability of jQuery for Mobile found here
http://jquerymobile.com. Taking a look right now and hope to have a
prototype to play with this week.

Man, this is such a fun technology to play with!