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Developing cross-platform Web apps for smartphones
- dmix 18y agoRhomobile, http://rhomobile.com http://rhomobile.com, is taking a cross-platform approach by building a framework to develop ruby applications from mobile phones (with html interfaces). They use xruby a java complier + a tiny web server to make this happen. The apps will work on iphone, blackberry, symbian and windows mobile. It might not be as powerful as a native java/j2me app but its has a lot of benefits over a mobile web app in the browser. It launched recently and it looks like it might have some potential.
- brlewis 18y agoAll on one page: http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/09/01/20/03TC-phone-web_1.html http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis... They didn't talk about email as part of the cross-platform strategy. By asking iPhone users about the limitations around emailing photos, I was able to make OurDoings much more suited to them: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2009-01-19 http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2009-01-19
- numair 18y agoIs it just me, or does the phrase "cross-platform Web app" remind you of the JVM fiasco of the 1990s?
- pedalpete 18y agoamazed that it took them until page 3 to mention PhoneGap. As far as I'm concerned, that is a huge opportunity to alleviate the issues they build up in the first few pages.