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Aw, that’s nonsense! I hadn’t programmed Java in 15 years before I downloaded Android Studio. I’d never programmed in Objective-C (Xcode) before a few weeks ago. Now I have my Android version done and am soaring through my iOS native version. There’s so much free training/code available on Youtube, Google, and Stackoverflow. Best of all, everything is a local built – right on your own computer!
Good luck!!
@Stickleback,
Stick with the phoneui.js file from the other post for now.to not have the location show set the location parameter to no, it defaults to yes if its not included:
window.open(‘http://genuitec.com’, ‘_blank’, ‘location=no,toolbar=yes,toolbarposition=top’);
@xx-man
> Why keep being a second-class developer?
What a noob insult. As a native and hybrid mobile developer, I don’t consider native or hybrid strategies to be 1st or 2nd class. Intelligent developers pick the right tool for the right job. Hybrid let’s you pick the best of both strategies. For example I’m working on a crazy cool innovation now and chose a hybrid strategy. My project involves high gpu work that can only be done at the native ios level but then I quickly defer to the web side for cool graphic effects using new css3 capabilities and html layout. 1 line of css saves me a 100 in objective-c. I don’t consider that 2nd class. It’s smart, fast and efficient. Yea, I could nut it up and waste a day cranking out the obj-c for this but that’s just dumb and I got a lot more done with that time.
Regardless of your opinion, hybrid-mobile has an increasingly strong position these days and a large number of apps in the appstores are hybrid. There are many more developers going hybrid with great results than the more complex direction you have chosen. My advice to readers of this thread is to consult a professional you trust on advice regarding native vs. hybrid, nothing is ever so black and white. The relative positions have been hammered out by professionals with much more experience.
PS – Lastly my sincere advice to you is to evaluate your public communications practice. Your “going native” tweets give you and your setr product an immature and unprofessional vibe.
Sales of that app are way up. 🙂
What’s second class is the lag in support between Apple or Android phone manufacturers changing parameters (screen sizes, screen densities, etc.), or updating look-and-feel, and relying on 3rd parties, such as Adobe or Genuitec to upgrade their products appropriately and in a timely manner. For example, Mobione landscape compilation has been broken since atleast early 2013. Being at the mercy of a 3rd party (and one’s desires not aligning with the 3rd party’s business case) is being a second-class developer – including not being able to compile because some far away build service is down. Not being able to take advantage of the latest and greatest because you’re waiting for a 3rd party to get their act together, that’s a second-class lifestyle. Paying a yearly fee for bloated software when free SDKs run more smoothly on one’s laptop, that’s a second-class lifestyle. That’s no longer my lifestyle. You’ll get no more of my money. #goingnative
@stickleback
xx-man’s list of grievances are with mobione. We have already addressed every technical issue while in addition providing a much broader set of technology choices. But to get there we had to make some hard choices. In order to develop more quickly and provide the range of capabilities we envision for the broadest range of developers it could not be accomplished through mobione (innovators dilemma) . If you’ve followed the new MyEclipse PhoneGap support over the past couple months then you’re aware of the dramatic progress that has been made for local SDK builds and PhoneGap cloud build models. And our choice of the PhoneGap Build service is paying off with significant enhancements Adobe introduced in late Dec. Our goal is for you to be able choose what works for you. Develop for the frameworks you want. I use ionic and it rocks. Nothing 2nd class about any of this. And we had to start somewhere for the next generation, thus the tools are packaged in a fully enterprise dev format. We know that’s not for everyone and it’s being addressed (more news coming soon).@xx-man I understand and respect your decision to go a different direction. I wish you the best of luck with your native apps.
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yes the hybrid thing is cool, but how to make the app compatible to all device sizes… like for an ipad or tabs…
for phone devices we can use the scale thing to adjust… but in case of ipad how to adjust it.. because in some cases the design changes.. so is there any way to do it in hybrid apps? like in native android app there are ui-layout xml files…
