Hi, On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:53, Muslim Chochlov <muslim.choch...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > Looks very attracting at a first glance. Write once, run everywhere is > definitely a very good approach. > However, it seems the more complex and platform specific application tends > to be the more sophisticated becomes development process. I am particularly > concerned about using intents. They are a crucial part of Android mobile > application, but using them with Phonegap is not a trivial task. You need > to write your own plugin that calls an intent and plugin writing is not > well documented. > If thinking about this project as a basis for multi platform GnuCash > mobile helper tool then it's definitely a good approach. But could it > happen that at some point it becomes more effort consuming than supporting > few native mobile applications. > BTW, there is an alternative called Appcelerator Titanium which is more > native platform friendly but supports only Android and iOS. > > @Ngewi, how enthusiastic are you about developing with PhoneGap or maybe > you have any previous experience of using it? > You could investigate on this topic and check if PhoneGap bridges all the > functionality required by expense tracker application. > There should not be a problem with storage or ui, but could be with > intents. Here are a few links to get started [1] [2] [3]. > > I do not have any previous experience with PhoneGap or any of the other cross-platform frameworks like Titanium. With Titanium, you will be targeting their JS framework which then interpretes the code at runtime [0]. It however uses native UI elements. I don't know how appealing this is for GnuCash to target proprietary cross-platform framework. PhoneGap seems to be just pure web app in a WebView wrapper, which is good. After googling a bit, a few notes - Data storage is not a problem (5MB database size limit ok?) - Intents pose a challenge. You could use plugins and WebIntents [1],but performance of plugins is reportedly not good [2] - From what I've read, general performance seems to still be an issue (although improving) So no, I am not enthusiastic about developing with PhoneGap or any other framework (although I must admit that I am partial to a native UI look than to generic looking apps). > @Ngewi, add github code link to your proposal in Melange. You should still > be able to edit it, if not just paste it into comments. > > Cheers, > Muslim > Done. Cheers, Ngewi [0] http://developer.appcelerator.com/blog/2010/12/titanium-guides-project-js-environment.html [1] https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins/tree/master/Android/WebIntent [2] http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/app-builder/phonegap-plugin-vs-a-native-solution-in-android/653 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
