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Re: Rhomobile promises: Build once, deploy to any smartphone

Brian LeRoux — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:55:23 -0000

Sync'd data is fully possible with PhoneGap and, yes, we have a plan for all smartphone operating systems and it is an explicit project goal for the project to cease to exist. We believe in enabling web technology with device capability. It really is only a matter of time.

Re: Rhomobile promises: Build once, deploy to any smartphone

Adam Blum — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:09:25 -0000

Would love to see PhoneGap do all smartphones. I've referred customers to them when people would prefer to write in JavaScript versus HTML+Ruby as we enable, and don't ever need to do synchronized data.

Re: Rhomobile promises: Build once, deploy to any smartphone

forever4now — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:25:47 -0000

The PhoneGap comment "only works on iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry" is a bit misleading. There are plans for PhoneGap to support all major smartphone OSes. I suspect Palm's WebOS will be added in the near future, since WebOS also uses HTML & JavaScript to build applications (i.e. there should be a straight forward mapping between PhoneGap & WebOS).

One thing I like about PhoneGap is that, if it is able to establish a standard set of JavaScript functions that map to all core smartphone services (geolocation, accelerometer, sound, ...), smartphone OS vendors could potentially provide a native implementation & eliminate the need for PhoneGap entirely.

Re: Rhomobile promises: Build once, deploy to any smartphone

Ryan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:09:41 -0000

This sounds very interesting, especially if they can address all the unique UI features that come with each phone (such as tab bars on the iphone).

However, isn't a 5 second start-up time for an app built on Rhomobile a bit long?

Re: Rhomobile promises: Build once, deploy to any smartphone

Tech Blog — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:09:53 -0000

I this is a great product it will save developers a lot of time and money.

Re: Rhomobile promises: Build once, deploy to any smartphone

IT Rush — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:42:08 -0000

This would be a great help especially those who wants to develop their own mobile apps. Thanks for sharing.