I am starting to believe that it is time to look at tools for doing cross phone development and as such have started playing with Sencha Touch. They are lacking WP7 phone support at this time but I think they will soon have it and one must concede that the WP7 market is tiny anyways. My goal is to use Sencha or a tool like it to develop apps that run across most of phones and tablets and consume Azure services. So far I really like the Javascript based tools and their use of MVC, I think that combined with PhoneGap and KnockoutJS for MVVM and binding I can build apps that are robust enough for most applications. There will always be the demanding UX that will require truly native apps.
So, should you build a mobile web app or a native one? If you're building an app that's graphically involved or involves any computationally expensive operations, go native for sure as the tools aren't quite there yet to make the job easy for mobile web apps. If you're building something fairly simple and you don't need any native styling or design polish, go the mobile web route. I think a great example is the first PhoneGap app on the WP7 which is Property Finder UK, it has great looks and function however the giveaway that is not native is the slow scrolling but overall this is minor given the functionality. The author can then move the same app to IOS , and Droids
About Me
- jmcfet
- indepth experience in developing RIA applications with C# Linq,WCF , Silverlight and JavaScript. Just help in delivering a robust business application in Silverlight for a large financial company.helped with architecture and coding. Participate in Codecamps as a presenter. This blog has no sense of order as it mainly a self help so I can reference things of my interest. my site http://www.sandkeysoftware.com has articles and videos by category
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Why don't you use WCF RIA Services for Silverlight?
WCF RIA now have JSON endpoint and RIA Javascript that expose its features to other platform than Silverlight.
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