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Did you ever use .net compact framework? It was actually decent from a functionality standpoint (especially coming from a J2ME background). While it was way bet
by tostitos1979 10y ago
Did you ever use .net compact framework? It was actually decent from a functionality standpoint (especially coming from a J2ME background). While it was way better than what was out there, it was designed for corp usage. It didn't have the design flare required to be a mass consumer product.
- flukus 10y agoThe UI toolkit was awful, lot's of fixed positioning makes supporting different resolutions and aspect ratios almost impossible.
- kalleboo 10y agoSo... just like iOS?
- flukus 10y agoI haven't done anything with iOS so I don't know if it's been resolved yet. But for a long time iOS had the advantage of only running on a single device. I believe the iPad had the same aspect ratio and could simply upscale the UI at first too.
- kalleboo 10y agoYeah these days it's all fine after they got AutoLayout working, but developers got lulled into "there's just one device size" that threes was a minor panic when they expanded the line (and now with iPad multitasking you need to handle basically any size)
- tostitos1979 10y agoAt the outset, there were a few devices with generally consistent screen sizes ... the compaq ipaq was very popular for instance .. so not too bad.
- rimantas 10y agoNothing like iOS. You've got autolayout, view classes and stack views on iOS.
- kalleboo 10y agoIt does now, but we were comparing to platforms that existed when the iPhone came out. Even J2ME was designed to handle variable layouts. AutoLayout wasn't usable until iOS 6