I want to build application both for Widows Phone 7 and iPhone using .net stack.
As being rationale I want to avoid to double code this logic. Is it possible to use resx files in both platform for this, or are there any good viable solution so I can reuse code base on both platforms?
Any good advice or best practice if anyone stoped on the same issue?
Here's a post from Craig Dunn that examines code sharing between the platforms
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I need to build a mobile app which should run on both iOs and android.I'm not interested to make my app as native app rather a hybrid one(my app may/maynot includes native code of iOs & android in few areas).Please help me on these queries.
which one should be the best technology to initiate my project.
Can I use MVP pattern in GWTMobile?
Which one requires less developing cost(factors: time,manpower) and less developing overhead(factor:less boilerplate code).
Which one have great look and feel in their widgets.
my app requires some of the features of phoneGap too, which one is gives great support to GWTPhoneGap. I'm prefering GWT-RPC for server communication and HTML5-Database support for local storage and offline service. Please give me answer with explanation to each point. Thanks in advance
don't know
in mgwt: yes
features requires cost. Both are more or less widget and framework components. I don' think they wil be really different.
compare them: http://mobilegwt.appspot.com/showcase/ http://demo.gwtmobile.com/
gwt-rpc isa bad idea for phonegap apps. It will work, but you must ensure, that clientcode (packaged inside the app) and the server must be in the exact same version, because of th serialization-policies.
I have been involved in doing web automation and Android automation testing. Currently we are looking for any iPhone functional testing tool which will help us to reduce the number of hours for regression testing. We are looking for an open source tool like Selenium or Robotium, where test cases are easier to write and implement.
If you wait until iOS 5 is released, I am sure you will find a component in Instruments that will do just what you want.
Non open source option could be SeeTest from experitest. It support both Android and iOS.
These days there are a number of projects to automate testing for native applications, including iphones. These two are the ones i see first on github searches.
https://github.com/TestingWithFrank/Frank
https://github.com/ios-driver/ios-driver
I remember there must be more but i do not recall their names
I am a C Sharp.NET & Silverlight developer and now thinking to swicth to SmartDevice development specially for iPhone & Andriod based phones. I have looked over web and found some cross platform development frameworks like
http://developer.openplug.com
http://www.phonegap.com/
http://android.xamarin.com/Welcome
but not sure about which to choose. Naturally I would like to keep my learning curve less but also would like to choose platform which provides more power, so I am looking for your suggestions and 'Getting Started' tips and also which device you think will be in demand in future iPhone or Android ? .
Thanks,
Maverick
I wouldn't recommend any of those. The problem is, that those "cross-platform" development frameworks, still aren't cross-compilable. This means you still need to develop an application for each platform, but you can reuse heavy calculations if you are using models af MVC.
Another thing is that those frameworks still aren't 100% native supported, so you'll loose some features from the native frameworks when developing applications.
I've read a lot of articles and to be honest, these cross-platforms seems to be dying out, cause both Android and iOS are moving very fast in each their direction and the cross-platforms cant keep up. But it's still up to you.
In would recommend you to choose one of those platform and learn it from scratch. With your C Sharp background, maybe iOS and Objective-C would be the most natural choice.
Enjoy
Edit: Regarding you last question:
I dont think it matters which one you choose, both will be domination for a long time. You should pick the one you can identify yourself with.
since you are C# dev, go for MonoTouch. I heard good things about it.
Miguel de Icaza is behind Xamrin. He wrote the most prolific .NET platform for UNIX, mono. I believe both he and his team have the capacity to bring you the most coverage for common features on Droid and iOS. My friend has a startup and is releasing an app shortly for iOS on Xamrin. It is a video streaming app.
HTML 5 will get you the most cross platform for the investment. Of course, like everyone else has said, if you need lots of native integration or if you want to use the latest APIs upon availability, you have to go native.
Im new to the development of apps and i've got some questions.
First let me tell you about the app i need to make.
As an intern at a company i need to develop an iPhone and Android app, they want me to create an app that is based on a existing CRM database.
I need to get data from the database and show it on the iPhone, this data should be edited and send back to the database.
The company itself does not has experience in the development of mobile apps.
EDIT:
The requirements i wrote above are the basic of the application, it will have alot more functionality implemented after the basic has been made. Something like an auto sync, either the database or phone will sync with each other once in a while. And when you are called on the phone it will also check the number in the database and if found the name is displayed instead of an unknow number. Just 2 things that should be implemented after the basic app
Is such a thing possible with an iPhone/Android?
As i have no experience with Objective-C, and little experience with java
Is it easy to learn, i have good knowledge of C#
What platform could you suggest for me?
As i need to develop for both iPhone and Android,
What is the quickest way of developing for both at the same time?
i've done research but as i do not have an mac at the moment i can't try stuff out for the iPhone.
Titanium Appcelerator is something i liked, and since this works for both iPhone and Android i think this might be a good option. But as i do not have any experience i want some good advice from those who have experience before i start programming.
tnx in advance,
~kamikze the rookie
You can also try PhoneGap.
You can use web services to connect to databases
As per your requirements, use Titanium Appcelarator, which will make you write your code in JavaScript, and will generate apps for both, iPhone and Android.
What you're wanting it to do is fairly simple and shouldn't introduce a lot of complexity before you.
Go ahead with Appcelerator, if you don't want to spend a lot of time learning Android SDK and Objectiv-C
It sure is possible to access/change databases.
If you have good C# knowledge then getting started with Java should not be an issue for you.
I think it should be quite easy to implement for Android, but I also have no experience in iOS development (don´t have a mac)
Can anyone tell me the best way to go about making an iPhone application support multiple languages? I am going to put separate versions for each language in the App Store, but what is the best way to represent this in Xcode?
Putting a separate app in the store for each language is NOT the way to go. The iPhone SDK handles multiple languages with grace, and you only need to have a single app with all the various translations. The iPhone's locale setting will direct your app as to which language to use.
A good place to start is here.
I haven't done iPhone dev yet, but "normal" Cocoa apps use ".lproj" strings files for different languages. See the docs about those, that should help. Good luck.