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There's a big argument against doing something like that in PhoneGap. Phonegap/JS does not have (low-overhead, easy to use) multithreading. I can guarantee you
by argonaut 12y ago
There's a big argument against doing something like that in PhoneGap. Phonegap/JS does not have (low-overhead, easy to use) multithreading. I can guarantee you that something like Flipboard is loading/marshalling all the content and data in a background queue of some sort. Maybe even doing some background rendering.
It bears noting that running background tasks in iOS is extremely easy for developers.
- nicholasreed 12y agoI bet a Flipboard-clone wouldn't be too difficult for a few engineers to bang out in Famo.us. But then again, the value of Flipboard isn't in being a beacon of iOS beauty and functionality, but instead lies in the apps wonderfully-curated content.
- argonaut 12y agoIf Flipboard had any regular, perceptible lag, no one would use it.
- pbreit 12y agoYou don't think that's possible on JavaScript/PhoneGap?
- argonaut 12y agoIt's not currently possible today (Web Workers are high-overhead and quite limited) and I haven't seen it in any of the standards for browsers that will be implemented for the foreseeable future. Are there any solutions you can think of?