[aerogear-dev] gwtcon

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Erik Jan de Wit <edewit at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was at gwtcon last week and I talked with Daniel Kurka ( he is part of
> the gwt team) about inbox. This is a new gmail app that is launched on iOS
> web and android. So google even though they have a lot of people to develop
> applications went for a cross platform approach based on Java. They
> considered cordova, but because they wanted an UI that was very speedy and
> also on older android devices they choice native. Java is used across all
> platforms using gwt to translate Java to javascript and j2objc to transform
> Java to objective-c. He reckons that about 70 - 80 % of the code is shared.
>
> So that gave me an idea, instead of using Java as the common language why
> not use javascript. And build a native UI that calls the javascript parts.
> This is of course a bit like appcelerator but without a layer in between.
> That way you could also still target windows phone.
>

not sure we really target UI. It's more libraries (and gluecode) that
AeroGear brings to the table


>
> Why not try out this idea and see if it’s feasible? WDYT?
>
> Cheers,
>         Erik Jan
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