[Chicago] Suggestions/Advice?

[Ben Rousch]

For extra fun you can compile Python to Javascript via PyJS then dump
it into a PhoneGap app. It works!

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Daniel Peters <danieltpeters at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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>
>> 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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