Poll: You and Mobile Development

#1

Post by acangiano » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 5:54 PM UTC

For which of the following mobile platforms/OS do you develop? Please select all that apply to you.

Re: Poll: You and Mobile Development

#2

Post by dotmanish » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 6:16 PM UTC

You missed J2ME (which has certain, but not 100% overlap with Symbian OS development). Now even Bada supports J2ME apps.

Re: Poll: You and Mobile Development

#3

Post by lynaghk » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 6:16 PM UTC

Kindle

Re: Poll: You and Mobile Development

#4

Post by kgutteridge » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 6:18 PM UTC

iOS, Android, webOS, Blackberry, J2ME

The first two are so much nicer to develop for due to tooling, webOS is pretty nice but perhaps a dead end!

Re: Poll: You and Mobile Development

#5

Post by acangiano » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 6:18 PM UTC

dotmanish wrote: post #2

You missed J2ME (which has certain, but not 100% overlap with Symbian OS development). Now even Bada supports J2ME apps.

Darn, I forgot to list it. I won't add it now though, as it would not be fair. There is an Other option for what is worth. If Other gets a huge number of votes, we'll know that options such as J2ME and others have a somewhat large market share among HNers, and it's not all about Android and iOS.

Re: Poll: You and Mobile Development

#6

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 6:19 PM UTC

dotmanish wrote: post #2

You missed J2ME (which has certain, but not 100% overlap with Symbian OS development). Now even Bada supports J2ME apps.

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Re: Poll: You and Mobile Development

#7

Post by kragniz » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 6:23 PM UTC

PalmOS 5! A tad outdated, but still running fine. It's "fun" to write apps in Pascal.

Re: Poll: You and Mobile Development

#8

Post by estel » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 6:27 PM UTC

kgutteridge wrote: post #4

iOS, Android, webOS, Blackberry, J2ME The first two are so much nicer to develop for due to tooling, webOS is pretty nice but perhaps a dead end!

I've been wondering that about webOS. I've started making a few apps that fill my own personal wants for the platform; and it seems that in the short-term it's a platform primed for opportunistic development.

Hundreds of thousands of consumers have recently gotten their hands on a Touchpad, and the HP store has so little new content coming into it that competition is pretty much non-existent. There are also plenty of gaps that are entirely unexploited by existing apps that haven't been found in iOS/Android since they launched.

Re: Poll: You and Mobile Development

#9

Post by simonsarris » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 6:27 PM UTC

Spending all of my programming time these days doing HTML5 Canvas stuff (work, personal projects, writing tutorials, helping people on StackOverflow, and helping those who email me for help)

Canvas is definitely on a slow-but-steady rise in popularity - there are a lot more questions each day on SO than there were a year ago. It's kind of nice to watch it grow, in a way.

I picked "Mobile-friendly Web development" though amusingly Canvas works in strangely different ways on mobile devices/different browsers, so it's more "mobile friendly" than Flash but still not quite the friendliest thing!

Re: Poll: You and Mobile Development

#10

Post by josteink » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 6:33 PM UTC

Thinking about doing Android-apps. And definitely thinking about exploiting the platforms (current) lack of tablet-optimised apps to make my own stand out.