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I think I require further explanation. I played with this and all it seems is a quick and easy way to build a feed reader with a data source of your choice. It

by talmand 15y ago

I think I require further explanation. I played with this and all it seems is a quick and easy way to build a feed reader with a data source of your choice. It does look like you can put your own HTML and CSS to change the look but I don't see how to change or add functionality with code. I think that part needs to be explained more because otherwise it just appears to be a "Look at my feed!" app. I'm sure those have their uses but it's easy enough to make a page on our site that's a feed. Plus, why is there a debugger if I'm not writing any code? That is what's making me think I'm missing something somewhere.

steren 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback, we will try to clarify this in the future. There are two ways to use the Joshfire Factory: - no development, using the available applications templates. - import your own application code Most templates help you to generate content-based applications. Which means, adding existing online data into an application well designed for the object it will be deployed on. They may be "Look at my feed" apps, but there is a need from professionals for this kind of app today. They have online content, and they want to reach more devices. If you import your own code via git, you are able to build any kind of application you want. You may want to use the debugger add-on to debug it on a built native application.
- bmelton 15y ago
  I had the same questions as the grandparent, but I whipped through to the end (just building a generic 'Twitter' app to get there, and then realized that I can download the source and (presumably) import it into Eclipse. To me, this is the sweet spot that nobody else is doing, and that will likely have me using it, if only as a bootstrap for an application. If I might suggest a (potentially premium) feature, make it so that I could store and upload my own 'skeleton' apps and use them with the GUI builder (to whatever degree of possibility that might be.)

by talmand 15y ago

steren 15y ago

Thanks for the feedback, we will try to clarify this in the future. There are two ways to use the Joshfire Factory: - no development, using the available applications templates. - import your own application code Most templates help you to generate content-based applications. Which means, adding existing online data into an application well designed for the object it will be deployed on. They may be "Look at my feed" apps, but there is a need from professionals for this kind of app today. They have online content, and they want to reach more devices. If you import your own code via git, you are able to build any kind of application you want. You may want to use the debugger add-on to debug it on a built native application.

bmelton 15y ago
I had the same questions as the grandparent, but I whipped through to the end (just building a generic 'Twitter' app to get there, and then realized that I can download the source and (presumably) import it into Eclipse. To me, this is the sweet spot that nobody else is doing, and that will likely have me using it, if only as a bootstrap for an application. If I might suggest a (potentially premium) feature, make it so that I could store and upload my own 'skeleton' apps and use them with the GUI builder (to whatever degree of possibility that might be.)