[aerogear-dev] gwtcon

[Bruno Oliveira]

On 2014-11-10, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
> 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

I must agree here.

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