Re: [aerogear-dev] gwtcon

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Erik Jan de Wit <edewit(a)redhat.com&gt; 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 > _______________________________________________ > aerogear-dev mailing list > aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev > -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf

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