I wish it was mobile optimized web site but all the good stuff, camera control, address book, motion sensors etc. is not exposed to web apps and won't be any time soon. You will be writing an objective-c app for iphone, and java apps for android and bb.
Poll: A year from now, which language will you be writing mobile apps in?
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Re: Poll: A year from now, which language will you be writing mobile apps in?
#12I'd love to give Silverlight a try. I've got a Silverlight web mapping app that handles 20x the complexity that I've ever seen with AJAX or Flash and I think I could get it up to 100x.
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#13HMTL5
Thanks. I updated one of the JS entries to: "JavaScript (HTML5/Mobile-optimized web-site)". Do you think "HTML5" should be a completely separate option?
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#14What about C# or F# for Windows Phone apps? I'd either use one of those (I do most of my development on .NET these days) or an HTML5/JavaScript site.
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#15While native applications wont go away any time soon, I fully believe that we will see the exact same position as we do currently do with flash vs the web. People will use native apps particularly when web apps just cant provide the functionality needed, but web apps will grow into the large majority, slowly improving and eating out the market from the bottom. its taken the web a very long time to take out flash's ma…
I disagree. Native apps will not have to, unless they specifically introduce it, the overheads of a browser rendering engine and all that entails. Even after you make the rendering engine as efficient as possible both in software and in hardware engineering, the overheads will always be there no matter how good you get things. You really can only do so much on 3.7v.
Personally, I'm looking into doing Qt development next year.
Re: Poll: A year from now, which language will you be writing mobile apps in?
#16I wouldn't be surprised if windows 7 phone apps were a big part of the eco system in a year, so I guess C# will be common for app development.
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#17Gee, we've only been writing C# mobile apps for five years. Except now I can write iOS and Android apps in it too.
Re: Poll: A year from now, which language will you be writing mobile apps in?
#18Python on Android would be my preferred option. But I've yet to look at Scala and Ruby, so if they become available on Android, I'd definitely try that. I have 3 android devices, but haven't gotten around to programming them because I hate Java.
You can use Scala with a moderate amount of hassle today: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/scala-ide/Developing_for_A....
Re: Poll: A year from now, which language will you be writing mobile apps in?
#19I'm going to use sproutcore
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#20Hopefully Clojure, which I suppose is another way of saying Java.