Boden cross-platform framework: Native C++11, native widgets, no JavaScript

Post by tom_ » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 12:40 AM UTC

zapzupnz wrote: post #27

Signez wrote: post #2

> Native widgets: Instead of drawing widgets that look nearly identical to the platform's design, Boden uses native OEM widgets ensuring that your app will always have a truly native look and feel. While I fully understand the underlying concept, I don’t understand why so many people seems to be bothered by that anymore; I used to care about that as an Android user, but most of the apps I use everyday on my phone (Tw…

Native widgets don't just mean "look". They can also mean "feel". This is particularly true on macOS. On macOS, I expect certain widgets in order to accomplish certain tasks. I expect that they will respond to mouseover and button presses in a certain way. I expect to be able to use certain key combinations to cause certain widgets to do certain things, I expect keyboard combinations to be able to be redefined in Sys…

Post by YetAnotherNick » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 12:50 AM UTC

nicoburns wrote: post #23

nkozyra wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It draws a comparison between electron, probably the leading contemporary approach for cross platform (albeit not for mobile)

And ReactNative and Cordova which are probably the leading contemporary approaches for cross platform mobile.

Post by glangdale » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 12:53 AM UTC

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #32

rhodysurf wrote: post #19

This is pretty much all I want except for it being GPL

Is there any reason why you don't want to publish your changes to the library?

Post by SiempreViernes » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 12:56 AM UTC

0xcde4c3db wrote: post #21

Signez wrote: post #2

> Native widgets: Instead of drawing widgets that look nearly identical to the platform's design, Boden uses native OEM widgets ensuring that your app will always have a truly native look and feel. While I fully understand the underlying concept, I don’t understand why so many people seems to be bothered by that anymore; I used to care about that as an Android user, but most of the apps I use everyday on my phone (Tw…

I might be totally off base here, but I get the sense that native widgets have become a skeuomorph for following the common UX conventions of the platform you're running on, with the latter being what brings the real value. The equivalent conventions for web apps and their desktop derivatives are much looser and don't yield as much consistency on which to build effective user expectations and habits. People who exper…

Post by dymk » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 12:58 AM UTC

elteto wrote: post #29

Teknoman117 wrote: post #12

GPL means its pretty much unusable...

Why?