[Chicago] Suggestions/Advice?

[Daniel Peters]

I'm passingly familiar with the other options for developing, sencha,
phonegap,  appcelarator(i think..?). but had the same feeling, learn a
native approach first and then perhaps move on to these other less
cumbersome ways.  Thanks for the suggestions.

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Tal Liron <tal.liron at threecrickets.com>wrote:

>  Android supports only a subset of the Java API, which means that many
> Java libraries will not work. Jython is one of them. Also worth pointing
> out that Jython is *huge*, and its startup time is also significant. Even
> if it did work on Android, as a dependency it would seem unreasonably heavy
> for most apps.
>
> It might be worth pointing out that my favorite way to develop mobile apps
> is in JavaScript, using Sencha Touch:
>
> http://www.sencha.com/products/touch
>
> Sencha Touch has recently started to support direct deployment, but I
> deploy using PhoneGap (with a few custom plugins):
>
> http://phonegap.com/
>
> There are pros and cons to this approach, but for many of my uses the pros
> outweigh the cons. All that said, I would still work on learning the
> Eclipse dev environment.
>
> -Tal
>
>
> On 08/27/2012 06:36 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Daniel Peters <danieltpeters at gmail.com> <danieltpeters at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  ha.  Don't think you can use jython on android...mores the pity.
>
>  So in Android the compiled Java things (class or jar files? I'm not a
> Java programmer either) aren't used?
>
> Skip
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