In case you haven't seen it, IBM is also doing some work in the mobile area. RAD includes support for building mobile apps using Dojo Mobile, and they have a Mobile Technology Preview which includes examples for PhoneGap. (Interestingly, it also includes an unzip installable version of WAS that spins up in 4 seconds and auto-detects what features to load).
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/ibmmobile/?lang=en
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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dean, Robert
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 9:18 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Android Development for the IBM i
Unless your application is really performance critical or you intentionally are targeting only one platform, native development is much more expensive than a hybrid approach involving using HTML5/JS/CSS with a cross-platform services API like PhoneGap, Mozilla WebAPI, or the like.
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From: web400-bounces+rdean=landstar.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx [web400-bounces+rdean=landstar.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Joe Pluta [joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 7:06 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Android Development for the IBM i
On 1/2/2012 4:03 PM, Maurice O'Prey wrote:
Joe
I did not suggest that you are incapable of writing IOS apps, of
course you are. You simply seem to have chosen not to and have backed
that up with some of your reasons, well it's your call.
Yup! It is a question of balancing resources with requirements.
I do not see the business case for ignoring an entire (leading) market
segment, maybe you do?
I'll address iPhones with web-based apps. And maybe a generator like PhoneGap will be enough to create platform independent native applications.
But if it comes down to having to learn individual languages and platforms to support different platforms, I'll gladly support Android and drop support for iPhone. Android: open platform, open language (Java), open API. iPhone: closed platform, closed hardware, closed language, closed API. Not a tough decision.
Given infinite resources, perhaps I'd support them all. But given reality, it's Android all the way.
Joe
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