Re: Android Development for the IBM i

On 1/2/2012 1:26 PM, David Gibbs wrote:

On 1/2/2012 11:19 AM, Joe Pluta wrote:

I have taken a look at phoneGap.

Although it's been a while since I looked at phoneGap ... and maybe I misunderstood something about it ... but I think you still need to buy a Mac and sign up with the Apple developer program to be able to create applications for the iPhone.

I wouldn't doubt it, at least for the native version of the applications. I'm still a bit hazy; I think you can create browser-based apps, but then you have to do some sort of compile stage to get to the native applications. I have lots of initial concerns. For example, in order to send an email in iOS, it seems you need a "plugin". The plugin is written in Objective-C. What's with that?

Also, I did a quick peek and it turns out the documentation renders REALLY poorly in IE8.

http://docs.phonegap.com/en/1.3.0/phonegap_contacts_contacts.md.html#contacts.find

If your product is supposed to be cross-platform, having illegible documentation in IE doesn't bode particularly well to me.

Joe