Re: Android Development for the IBM i

Actually, I'm pretty solidly opposed to writing native applications for iOS. If an application requires cross-platform support, I'll stick with a browser-based technique (like the PhoneGap technology Henrik spoke of). But if I need to take advantage of the native hardware, I'll write it for Android. I personally don't want to waste any time on jumping through Apple's hoops. That's MY New Year's Resolution :).

Joe

Hi Joe

I kind of guessed your response but this is not a war about programming languages as by now we have all learned to speak quite a few.

Clearly the platform is a commercial battle and if you are going to have a successful app it will have to support all.

So no more one is better than all the others, another new year resolution!

Kind Regards

Maurice O'Prey
XMLi5 Ltd

On 2 Jan 2012, at 15:45, Joe Pluta<joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1/2/2012 9:22 AM, Maurice O'Prey wrote:

For my new years resolution I'm writing an IOS app ( not that I have anything against android )

Yeah, I tried that. I got as far as getting Leopard to boot in a VM,
just to see if it could be done. But in the end I couldn't get past a
couple of hurdles. First was the fact that I would have to learn
Objective-C. I really have no desire to re-learn Smalltalk. But the
real kicker was that I would have to pay Apple for the privilege of
running an application that I wrote on a device that I own.

Good luck to you on your endeavors!

Joe
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