My team and I are currently planning to do some Rich Web development for the android and iphone and I am wondering if you guys could share some resources with us. Anything will be welcomed. Thanks in advance.
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Take a look at this SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/215390/available-iphone-web-application-javascript-ui-library-frameworks - the answers list off various iPhone web app frameworks, and a useful link to http://distractable.net/coding/iphone-android-web-application-frameworks/. These are all HTML5 based and therefore will work on Android too. There are not any Android specific frameworks that I know of.
Mind you, its debatable if you want to use an iPhone webapp framework that gives native look & feel on Android because the user will have Android device but will have iPhone user experience - which may be confusing.
Have you considered just using something like jQuery & jQuery UI ? iPhone & Android support both of these and they can be used to develop rich apps. Update: http://jqtouch.com/ is jquery based and while I haven't had chance to use it yet, it looks pretty good.
One other thing to bear in mind that users will be accessing your site on limited 2G/3G connections so don't lose track of the download size of your web app.
Kevin
2010-07-07 09:44:12
yeah i looked at jqtouch, but i was wondering if it wasn't an overkill for a mobile app
ferronrsmith
2010-07-07 19:46:37
How rich does your mobile web app need to be? Gmail type richness, or just some useful js validation type stuff?
Kevin
2010-07-07 20:55:47
Yeah Gmail. We wanna do some ajax and some html5 stuff. So thanks for the info
ferronrsmith
2010-07-08 03:18:58
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If you want to "do HTML5" stuff, then I'd recommend that you look at our demos and other stuff at www.sencha.com/products/touch - although if you think jQTouch is overkill, then Touch will definitely be even more overkill [I work for the company]
Michael Mullany
2010-08-02 00:18:20