Which one gets your great new app first?
Had a great chat with Clint Mario Cleetus of Bogex this morning about cross-platform development challenges. We had been working separately but in parallel on the same problem: Cross-Platform Apps Dev. He’s furthering development on Busybuzz.Biz and I’m tinkering with another social product. I’m actually considering going completely mobile except for paid subscribers. Hmmm.
The same old platform problems have existed since there was a second platform:
- You want to know everything – just not for every platform.
- You like the learning curve – just not for every platform.
- Every platform presents a brand new set of unique challenges.
- You have limited resources.
- But for max reach, you want or need shipping product – on every platform.
Clint turned me on to QuickConnect on Sourceforge.
The Quick Connect family lets you code lots of client side functionality in JavaScript on your mobile platform of choice (iPhone, Android, Symbian, etc) and access Native APIs and then take that over to your next platform for a recompile. They’ve even got a way to do SQL without installing it into your shipping application.
There are a couple others listed on TopGadget like PhoneGap and RhoMobile as well as a new book about different considerations when you’re going cross-platform:
BTW, need to go local PC? Check out Mozilla Prism.
Got any others that I’m not aware of? Any experiences on any of the above you’d like to share?
