Re: Android Development for the IBM i -- WEB400

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On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Dean, Robert <rdean@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Unless your application is really performance critical or you intentionally are targeting only one platform, native
development is much more expensive than a hybrid approach involving using HTML5/JS/CSS with a
cross-platform services API like PhoneGap, Mozilla WebAPI, or the like.

How does HTML5 work for apps that are stored and run entirely on the
client? And Javascript and CSS don't seem to be suited for client
based apps. And I do not know much about it, but HP just shutdown
WebOS which was a browser based way of running client apps. There was
a NY Times article on saturday and it said the OS kind of collapsed
under its own weight. Where Palm had rushed components to market. Then
enhancements and integration of the components required major,
multiple rewrites of the underlying WebOS. The end result being apps
that crashed and devices that froze too frequently. I am sure Android
is not WebOS due to all the money Google is putting into it. But I do
question using javascript as a client app programming language.

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