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General Discussion

Posted by Brad Ward
Brad Ward
322 Points

app development

What is the best way to develop apps for all devices?

3 Answers

Adam Greenough
Adam Greenough
7,742 Points
Adam Greenough
Adam Greenough
7,742 Points

Building a web app in PHP or Ruby is probably the most cross-platform way of doing it. Any internet-enabled device could then use it.

rayorke
rayorke
27,709 Points
rayorke
rayorke
27,709 Points

If you're looking to develop apps that access a phone/tablet's native APIs, take a look at Adobe's PhoneGap. This will allow you to build the application using web technologies, and target iOS, Android and Windows Mobile devices.

http://html.adobe.com/edge/phonegap-build/

Xing En Xiao
Xing En Xiao
3,315 Points

Rhys,

Do you have experience with PhoneGap? Performance wise, did you see any differences between PhoneGap vs. Android(Java) and iOS(Objective-C) native apps?

Brad Ward
Brad Ward
322 Points
Brad Ward
Brad Ward
322 Points

well, i dont have any experience in that, but i will check out the adobe, i thought that is where treehouse came in to play.