I've been creating apps using AppSheet where an app is usable from both a desktop computer as well as Android and iOS mobile devices. We recently became disillusioned with the AppSheet platform due to bugs that they refused to fix, and so decided to move on to Codename One. My only question is, will an app I create on Codename One be usable from both a desktop and an Android/iOS device?
Thanks.
Tiffany
Yes if you have a pro account. Codename Ones desktop support requires a pro level subscription.
iOS/Android work fine in the free subscription too.
Notice that the web support for Codename one (running in the browser) requires the enterprise level subscription.
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How would one go about porting an app built with Android SDK to Codenameone? The objective is to port to multiple OS.
I suggest checking out the Android trail in the Codename One website http://codenameone.com/android.html generally you would need to rewrite your UI and networking code. Adapt to a smaller subset of Java functionality etc.
You could keep most of the business logic intact though. I would suggest starting with a GUI builder application and some of the How Do I? tutorials just to get the UI right then the rest should be easy.
I know is hard to develop web application and make a individual app versions in each device.
But i just want to know how that works with big companies.I want to know how they write there code
The best example is Evernote and Google Drive.
They make a cloud application and individual apps for each device.
So the questions are..
How do sync the data with the cloud apps ?
Do they use version control ?
Can i get software requirement specification anywhere ?
Platforms and Languages:
iPhone and Mac - Objective C
Android and Other Mobile Apps - Java
Windows 8 - C#
Web Apps - PHP or Python
How do you solve this solution languages differ?
I guess i it's not possible with version control..
How to minimize coding ?
I recommend you use a version control tool.
make a individual app versions in each device.
I assume you mean developing different versions with few differences. The branch feature in a version tool can help you manage these versions easily.
How do sync the data with the cloud apps ?
You can use the web deployment feature to upload the applications/modifications to your web server.
I list some version control tools here for your reference:
Git
SVN
SourceAnywhere (I work for the company)
Team Foundation Server
I want to create an mobile phone app which can run on more than one mobile OS. with a little bit of browsing it became clear that I can use SDK's like Phonegap or Appcelerator so that my app would run on any mobile OS. my problem is that i dont know which SDK should I use ? All that i require from my app is that
1. It should run on the mobile 24x7.
2. It should have access to the GPS functionality of the Mobile phone.
3. It should send a data string to a specified server.
Should I work with Phonegap or Appcelerator or are their any other better SDK's for this tiny task ?
Thank you
It's better to go with Appcelerator titanium because it gives native look to your application..., as the application would be implemented in javascript.
please go through this link
http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/2.1/index.html
Phonegap works on 7 mobile platforms vs 2 mobile platforms for Appcelerator
I would say, from my own experience, in order to create a multi-platform application with a native look/feel and native performance it is best to go with Appcelerator Titanium.
It is very easy to have an application run on both iOS and Android with minimal change of code.
Either Titanium (JavaScript) or the combination of PhoneGap and Sencha Touch (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) will suit your purposes, however, as stated above, I advise using Titanium for the native feel.
I have a winforms application and was wondering whether I should attempt to move it to Windows store app (and WPF) or not. I would expect metro style apps to have the same potential as desktop apps, but what got me wondering is the fact that VS 2012 is not a metro app. It doesn't really surprise me much as every metro app I've seen so far look like a phone app that can't really do much and I can't imagine how VS would look like as a metro app.
Seems to me like Microsoft wants to slowly move everything to metro, otherwise I don't see the point on introducing a whole new visual experience just to get stuck with having to switch between metro and desktop, but even Notepad is still a desktop application. So my question is, basically, is every kind of application supposed to be movable to metro or is metro only for small phone-like applications?
I don't believe that Microsoft is intending every application to end up Metro. I see more lightweight types apps going to Metro. Heavy duty line-of-business apps will stay on the desktop side of things.
I do see an opportunity for writing both desktop and Metro style apps in enterprise environments though. Imagine this hypothetical scenario:
In an enterprise, I can see Accounts Receivable running the full-blown, monolithic, desktop application on their desktops just like they run them under Win7 because they’re needs are pretty extensive.
The receptionist will run a touch enabled laptop with a Metro app that is tied into just the corporate appointments.
The guys on the loading dock will be running Win8 phones that have the intake/outtake app showing schedules for deliveries and what not.
Managers and executives have Metro tablets that have an app that shows metrics: lots of pretty charts and graphs showing the current condition of what and how the company is operating in it’s different lines of business.
For the users that need the complexity, it’s desktop mode, but for the users that perform smaller, specific computer tasks, touch-enabled Metro apps for them.
Metro-style apps are for content consumption, like you would find on a tablet.
Classical desktop apps are for content creation.
I think metro apps are an additional feature and I do not think, that they are a serious replacement for desktop applications. If you want to deploy your apps to tablet PCs, phones or any other touchscreen/handheld devices, metro style would be a good choice. At the moment there are just not many consumers for metro apps as Windows 8 has not even come to the markets.
As you already mentioned, on desktop PCs metro apps are very uncomfortable and do not provide the full functionality as desktop applications can do.
So my question is, basically, is every kind of application supposed to be movable to metro or is metro only for small phone-like applications?
I don't think so, as this means automatically that many customers who have used previous versions of Windows would have to learn working with the metro interface.
Metro apps provide much more functionality than desktop gadgets have done in Vista, as they can be programmed using C# or other .Net languages, but metro apps use up too much space to be controlled with a simple mouse.
I create a new netbeans codename one project and it runs on codename emulator but when i build the broject the application does not work on j2me device because there is no MIDlet.
there is an option called send j2me build but it is not available in my country i cant even signup for some
political reasons how to solve this problem ?
thank for any help.
It seems that Google App Engine which we use for infrastructure is blocked in some countries. This is entirely out of our control. We are looking into the possibility of replacing the Google App Engine server architecture but that would take some time.
Technically you can build Codename One applications like you build LWUIT applications but it requires quite a bit of know how.