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I like rubymotion and looked very seriously at it for doing some prototyping/mvp work a few years back before we hired in house ios dev. I think react-native h
by dpeck 10y ago
I like rubymotion and looked very seriously at it for doing some prototyping/mvp work a few years back before we hired in house ios dev.
I think react-native has largely filled the niche that was there for rubymotion to fill and with the momentum of facebook and javascript behind it the days of new people coming to rubymotion are largely behind it.
It was a great idea and a great product/tool in its time, but it was outflanked by additional resources and circumstances.
- rajangdavis 10y agoDo you know of any good resources to play around with RubyMotion? I went through the quickstart for an Android app, seems pretty simple, but I am not too sure how I would structure an app or change views. Ionic 1 seemed pretty straight forward to me and I haven't tried React Native.
- stephenhuey 10y agoI recommend looking into tools like RedPotion which brings together multiple tools such as RMQ, ProMotion, CDQ, AFMotion, MotionPrint, etc. redpotion.org https://github.com/infinitered/redpotion https://github.com/infinitered/redpotion
- silkodyssey 10y agoYou write Android apps the same way you'd write them in Java and the Android SDK but with the Ruby language. The quickstart gives you an idea of how to translate some of the Java to Ruby but you'll still need to learn how to build Android apps with Java.
- rajangdavis 10y agoI had the wrong understanding of how it worked (I come from a Rails/Javascript/Ruby background), so thank you for the explanation, it illuminates a lot.
- dpeck 10y agoredpotion seems to be the way to go, but that project seems to be in maintenance mode. There are a few other libraries/frameworks from the rubymotion project itself, called motionflow iirc, that seemed like they were the way of the future when I checked out status a few months ago. However they were not finished at the time.