[ECC Mobile Application]

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by JamieSinn, Nov 7, 2012.

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What do you want most in this app?

  1. Twitter

    11.1%
  2. Android Compatability

    44.4%
  3. Other, Post below

    44.4%
  1. brandbauer

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    no one has windows phones... lol
     
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    Java/Android is generally the easiest to program for. There is a reason most uni's teach java and use android as a teaching platform.

    As for WP7, I can't believe it will ever be as popular as that graph suggests.
    As someone who works for a mobile app development company, I can only see android becoming stronger and stronger. Business forecasts put the Amazon kindle tab platform (android) as being a big hit this christmas.

    If you really want write a mobile app for all platforms, html5 is probably the easiest cross platform system, since it can run either in a browser on all devices, or with an app wrapper.

    (As for the comment about IOS running java, don't bet on it)
     
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    I completely agree,
    The main idea was to make it OS Specific, I may take a break on WP7 To work on the android as Java is one of my main languages
    as for html5
    I am looking in to it
     
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    If you're not going to use html5, or html5 boilerplate you should at least take a look at the project as they have a lot of good tips.
    http://html5boilerplate.com


    This post on stack overflow has some nice information in it.
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5063117/choosing-mobile-web-html5-framework


    Another popular framework that wasn't mentioned on the above SO post I thought I'd mention. (If you're going to use bootstrap for mobile devices, make sure you're using responsive)
    http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap


    As a side note, I would just like to mention that the HTML5 specification is still a Working Draft. Not all browsers implement HTML5 and CSS3 fully or have the same features implemented. And just to make life more interesting, some people still enjoy using IE 6 and in my opinion, anyone who still uses IE 6 is a masochist.