Anyone used Cordova?
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I was procrastinating and wandered over to the Cordova[^] site. A cross-platform Javascript library to allow devs to create apps on Mobile devices using a single API using Javascript, CSS and HTML. So: anyone used it? What's the general feeling on cross-platform mobile development? There was a thread on Xamarin[^] the other day that had mixed responses so I thought I'd throw this into the fray.
cheers Chris Maunder
Yes, I use it for collaboration on open source projects under the umbrella of Apps4Canadians.ca. It enabled me to post hybrid apps in Google Play, Samsung, BlackBerry App World and both the iOS and Windows Mobile stores. If you want to get up and running quickly with mobile apps by leveraging your HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills then it fits the bill, however you may want to evaluate other options once you get into more demanding data centric and complex presentation layers on mobile devices. It's definitely a good tool to get started and can serve the purpose for your development and distribution needs dependent upon your business objective. There is also a fairly active community and several books to purhcase if you get stuck on any development or implementation details.
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After dealing with ridiculous type conversions and unnecessary classes just to do the obvious, JavaScript is a relief. I can do a project in about 1/4 of the time it takes to do it any other way. And for those who worry about type safety - if your code is written well, you shouldn't have to worry about it.
Bruce Patin wrote:
if your code is written well, you shouldn't have to worry about it.
If you code is written well, regardless of the language, then a significant amount of development time (and people) could be eliminated from the every industry that uses programming. But I seriously doubt that is going to happen.
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I was procrastinating and wandered over to the Cordova[^] site. A cross-platform Javascript library to allow devs to create apps on Mobile devices using a single API using Javascript, CSS and HTML. So: anyone used it? What's the general feeling on cross-platform mobile development? There was a thread on Xamarin[^] the other day that had mixed responses so I thought I'd throw this into the fray.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
What's the general feeling on cross-platform mobile development?
Cross platform anything is a dream, into which reality often interjects itself. Cross platform often works well for things that are very simple. Anything more complex either requires work arounds or compromises.