Thanks Bob. I was not expecting quick replies to my question - I know
it's a tough, and potentially wide, area to address.
Thanks for the pointers to those apps - I looked closely at QuickInfo
and more briefly at the other.
My first comment is that I guess I'm not ready to give up on LC yet :-(
In some ways, the WebApp approach is at one end of the spectrum of
responses to my question: i.e. provide essentially a single UI for all
platforms. Of course, it can and should be responsive to screen size,
layout, aspect ratio, etc. - but it basically makes *an* app which has
its own look/feel, rather than try to appear like a native app on each
platform.
Also, of course, it provides two large advantages :
- sidesteps the hurdle of getting into the AppStore (and setting up
correct SDK, Xcode, yada, yada, yada, ...)
- gives an immediate solution to the Dropbox issue.
I'm sure that before too long we'll have a usable Dropbox library (i.e.
with an OAuth component that imho is needed to make it usable for most
use cases), so I'm happy to deal with some short-term work-around for
data sharing (which isn't too hard for my single app). (btw - yes, I did
look at OAuth with a view to whether or not I could write such a
library, and decided it was beyond my ability/effort level in an area I
just don't understand).
The app store issue - well, I have only the anecdotal evidence from the
uselist, which suggests it is frustrating, but that as long as you have
a reasonable approach to UI, you have some freedom to adopt either a
very iOS-centric approach, or something "quite different but
consistent". (see more of my views on that topic in my reply to
Richard's post....)
Thanks again,
Alex.
On 12/01/2016 14:34, Bob Warren wrote:
Hi Alex,
The lack of response to your question shows, I think, that
multi-platform apps in LiveCode, for both desktop and mobile, are
really hard to achieve. I would love to be able to do this in LC
because I love the language, but the only practical way I have found
so far is to write browser apps in JQuery.
If you think it would be of any use at all, visit the main page of
www.howsoft.com and click on the "Universal Apps" icon. The extensive
Helps to the 2 apps in this series will give you a good idea of how
they are written. You will see that data is exchanged among platforms
by the use of DROPBOX.
Regards,
Bob Warren
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Alex Tweedly wrote:
I'm considering developing a multi-platform app; i.e. ont where the same
app runs on both "desktop" and mobile.
On the 'desktop' platforms it will use 'standard' menus, and that will
be the main "command" access (along with an optional toolbar, most
likely, but the toolbar will give access to a limited number of most
often used commands/features, rather than to "everything).
But, on mobile, there are no "standard menus", and although they are
appearing on a few apps (as homegrown menus), they aren't the usual
convention on mobile devices. So, I will have a combination of icons,
buttons, etc. on the mobile platforms.
I suspect that means I'm in the same boat as many other people have
already been in, and I'd like to benefit from your experience.
If you have developed an app running on both desktop and mobile:
1. did you follow this same split on how your main command structure was
invoked ?
2. how did you manage this ?
a. really one app with per-platform customization
b. two (or more) apps with as large a percentage as possible put
into library stacks (or similar) as possible, with separate menu-based
vs button-based apps.
c. something else that you could readily explain
Many thanks
Alex.
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