Re: Android Development for the IBM i

[Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Glad you brought PhoneGap up Joe.  I have been using PhoneGap for about 
a year and once you get your head around HTML5,CSS3 and Javascript 
(which you will have to do in order to write a mobile web application 
anyway) you are 95% there.

I'll be doing a Webinar on "Developing Mobile Applications for i using 
Open Source Tools" on January 24th, 26th and Feb 1st  for Common that 
will cover PhoneGap.  I have been blogging about developing a mobile web 
applications, starting with a green screen app and taking it all the way 
to a native mobile app here http://www.petesworkshop.com/blog_wp which 
will be covering PhoneGap in the next couple of installments.  I 
developed a mobile application for Common that Conference attendee's can 
use to schedule their sessions with that was developed using PhoneGap 
and finally, at some point this year, SystemiNEWS magazine may publish a 
series of articles I wrote last summer that will cover a soup to nuts 
(green screen to mobile app) development strategy.

A mobile application (web or native) is wonderfully straightforward to 
develop.  PhoneGap makes it drop dead easy once you get over the 
HTML/CSS/Javascript hurdle. Writing code once and deploying to 
Android/IOS/Blackberry/etc is the way to go so that you don't have to 
learn all those native languages.

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java


On 1/2/2012 10:21 AM, Joe Pluta wrote:
> On 1/2/2012 10:59 AM, Joe Pluta wrote:
> > Actually, I'm pretty solidly opposed to writing native applications for
> > iOS.  If an application requires cross-platform support, I'll stick with
> > a browser-based technique (like the PhoneGap technology Henrik spoke
> > of).  But if I need to take advantage of the native hardware, I'll write
> > it for Android.  I personally don't want to waste any time on jumping
> > through Apple's hoops.  That's MY New Year's Resolution :).
> >
> > Joe
> And please note, PhoneGap (and some other HTML to native tools) allow
> some level of native access, which is the whole point behind native
> applications.  So there's a real argument to be made for eschewing the
> whole native issue entirely and going straight to a generator.  I'm just
> not at that point yet.
>
> Joe