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Ask HN: Transition from Rails development to iPhone/Android?

About a year ago I started learning web dev in my spare time. First HTML/CSS, the moved on to RoR and with it, Haml and Sass. I am in love with the simplicity and ease with which RoR and related tools lets me develop web apps. Recently, I picked up a book on Objective-C and iPhone dev. BAM! Brick wall. This kind of work seems to be much more painful.<p>So HN, I asks:<p>Is there any method, toolkit, library, etc that provides me the same ease and simplicity for iPhone/Android development work?

DamonOehlman 16y ago
If you are coming from a rails background then I would highly recommend having a look at Rhodes from Rhomobile (http://rhomobile.com/ http://rhomobile.com/). There's lots of good things going for it and it also offers in-roads to developing on devices outside of just iPhone and Android. If you don't find Rhodes a good fit, then have a look at PhoneGap (http://phonegap.com/ http://phonegap.com/) which offers similar functionality on a pure HTML + Javascript solution. I can't see you being disappointed with Rhodes though...
vantran 16y ago
You could also try out http://www.appcelerator.com/ http://www.appcelerator.com/ It is similar to Phone Gap, and a lot of people use it to build simple iphone apps.
gtracy 16y ago
Have you looked into jquery mobile? Still in alpha, but a nice toolkit for building mobile apps that run in the browser but look and feel like a native app. http://jquerymobile.com http://jquerymobile.com
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