[aerogear-dev] What is it about

[Bruno Oliveira]

Ashish, if you want a point of start, maybe a demo is a good fit:

- iOS - https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-todo-ios
- Android - https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-android-todo

I hope that helps.  


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On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 4:38 PM, ashish wrote:

> Hi Summers,
>  
> Yes, this is tremendously helpful.  
>  
> As to your remark
>  
> “I'm afraid I don't understand your question. Are you asking why would  
> someone use AeroGear instead of writing code to consume those services  
> directly or are you asking why won't someone go to your mobile web page  
> and skip the native app all together? “
>  
> What I meant here is that we are in a situation wherein a web based portal communicates with a server via a web service. We would like to extend the functionality of the portal to an iOS and Android App. Most of the work done is in terms of [invoke service -> get data -> present the data] and so on. So, to accomplish this, we had started looking at invoking a SOAP service from objective-C. Then we heard about AeroGear and were wondering where AeroGear fits in.  
>  
> Hope this clarifies what I was asking.
>  
> Thanks a lot.
>  
> Regards,
> Ashish
>  
>  
> From: Summers Pittman [via aerogear-dev] [mailto:[hidden email] (/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=2331&i=0)]  
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 2:10 PM
> To: ashish
> Subject: Re: [aerogear-dev] What is it about
>  
> Ashish, I will respond inline.  
>  
> On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:46:59 PM, ashish wrote:  
> > Hi,  
> >  
> > We are building an application using JBoss middleware. This application has  
> > a web based front end. We are thinking of extending this web application's  
> > reach to mobile devices (iOS and Android). I came across the AeroGear  
> > project and have some questions.  
> >  
> > 1. What is AeroGear about? How can it help someone in my situation?  
> AeroGear is about providing libraries to make it easier to expose Java  
> EE services to remote clients AND to make those exposed services easier  
> to consume.  
>  
> > 2. Why would someone not build a native application (using Objective-C for  
> > example) and invoke a web service made available via our server side  
> > application? Where does AeroGear fit?  
>  
>  
> I'm afraid I don't understand your question. Are you asking why would  
> someone use AeroGear instead of writing code to consume those services  
> directly or are you asking why won't someone go to your mobile web page  
> and skip the native app all together?  
>  
> > 3. I read about hybrid mobile app development tools so how does AeroGear  
> > relates to things like PhoneGap, JQueryMobile and Apache Cordova.  
>  
>  
> PhoneGap is Adobe's commercial offering of Cordova. Cordova is an  
> Apache project which provides an API and a container to Javascript  
> applications. This API and Container bridge the Javascript  
> application's WebView to the underlying OS and allow you to write  
> applications which use a phone's camera, accelerometer, etc. This lets  
> you write native-ish apps with HTML5, CSS, and Javascript and submit  
> the to the various app stores.  
>  
> Jquery Mobile is a library which provides mobile focused themes,  
> events, styles, widgets, and utilities to a Jquery based JavaScript  
> application. This can be used with a website hosted on a server or in  
> a Cordova Application.  
>  
> AeroGear in this situation serves as a communication library. It  
> provides a wrapper around native storage, networking life cycle, object  
> marshalling, and networking error handling. We try to have our APIs  
> among the various platforms be similar enough that knowledge and design  
> lessons learned on one platform can be applied to other native  
> platforms.  
>  
> I hope this helps some.  
>  
> Summers  
>  
>  
> >  
> > Thank you  
> > Ashish  
> >  
> >  
> >  
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