[Chicago] Suggestions/Advice?

Daniel Peters danieltpeters at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 03:32:59 CEST 2012


interesting, hadn't heard of this one yet. good lookin out sir

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Eric Mills <ericmills2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why not try Kivy <http://kivy.org/#home>? It is cross platform and you
> can make the app into an iPhone app, Anrdroid, Linux, Window, and OSX.
>
> Haven't used it yet, but I will once I find an app to build. It's still in
> its early stages thus far, but very promising.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Daniel Peters <danieltpeters at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> though I've sworn in blood never to type a certain three letter acronym,
>> I very much did laugh out loud at this.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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