[aerogear-dev] gwtcon

[Corinne Krych]

I think there is definitively an interest for having one code base (Java/JavaScript: choose your weapon) for multiple platform using native look and feel. At Devoxx I attended 2 sessions on the topic:

Here is an extract from my blog post devoxx summary [1]:

"Develop your mobile app once in your favourite language and deploy it on iOS and Android. Still the Nirvana mantra for quick-win mobile development… If your language of choice is Java, see “Real cross-platform Java on mobile devices” session and how to use JavaFX to build your app on Android (LodgON) and iOS (RoboVM). UI is not yet native feel but it’s in the pipe for future as well as using Java8. If you’re a JavaScript ninja, go to “Use JavaScript to build Mobile Apps with Native UI” session to hear about Titanium. You have to learn a titanium specific API to build all your app including UI. but, UI get bridged into native widgets. As … stresses a lot no lowest common denominator, When you need to go platform specific use a if/else :)) “

Worth investigating further...

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Corinne
[1] http://corinnekrych.blogspot.fr/2014/11/devoxx-2014-in-eyes-of-mobile-developer.html

> On 27 Nov 2014, at 08:59, Erik Jan de Wit <edewit at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 26 Nov,2014, at 11:49 , Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
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>> so, you are proposing having a layer that basically wires a native GUI element to a JavaScript function?
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> Yes
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>> I thought that Cordova would already allow you, building native UI _and_ invoking JS functions, but looks 'pure' like Cordova apps are just WebView? So, for adding native buttons, I'd have to take the project to the next stage (e.g. open in Xcode and do some ObjC/Swift foo), where I than need to manage the JS invocation (I assume that I am able to leverage Cordova for the call from native to js, since that's what the plugins do - but _not_ explicitly wired to a native 'button;)?
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> No cordova does not have this functionality, so my suggestion is to make a library to make that effort easy. Initially base this on cordova and the way cordova makes calls to and from native code, because then you could still use the plugins as well. Another possibility could be to build something on top of iOS 7 JavaScriptCore and v8 on Android, because we don’t use the web view anymore and only need a Javascript execution environment, but for first version using web view to execute the Javascript would be good enough.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Erik Jan
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