I am planning to develop a cross platform mobile app.
My app has to deal with camera, organizing pics.. I am planning to use PhoneGap for building the app. I need to select a user friendly IDE for developing my app. There are so many Editors in the market.
This is my first app and I am very confused which would be a best one to use. I am developing my app on Mac. I need a simple, user-friendly Editor.
Can someone please suggest what pros and cons do I have using different Editors and a better one to use?
I am currently using Monaca for developing mobile apps using PhoneGap. It includes an IDE for developing by simply using web browser. The good thing is that you write your code just using HTML5 and Javascript and deploy it to the platform such iOS, Android and Windows 8.
There is a guide here for create a simple app with camera using PhoneGap and JQuery mobile. It is very simple to do. You can have a try.
For Cordova/PhoneGap development right on iOS devices we developed GapCoder IDE.
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Please, am a web developer. I just built a web app for a school to manage their results and fees.
Now, i intend to build an app on android and ios so its 'easier' for both staff and students to get notifications and interact better.
Is JQuery mobile the asnwer?
Thanks for your reply
jQuery Mobile doesn't create an application for Android nor for iOS, it only makes websites look better on said platforms.
To create a real, native, application for Android you should use Android Studio. To do the same for iOS you need XCode and MAC OS X.
But, if you prefer to write websites, Apache Cordova does what you need. Allows you to create apps for any platform using your usual HTML, CSS and Javascript.
I'll drop the link here so you can check it out.
https://cordova.apache.org/
Another approach is creating a basic Android and iOS app that simply opens a web page (your website), but it is most of the time lacking in performance. If this last approach interests you, just look up "WebView" for Android, "UIWebView" for iOS (Obviously you'll need Android Studio and XCode)
EDIT
This is an old answer, now a ton of different technologies exist to build multiplatform applications, without even losing out on performance (for example, see react-native)
If you have already built the app using JQuery mobile and want to make it into an app I recommend looking at Cordova (PhoneGap) https://cordova.apache.org/
For notifications etc I found https://www.pushwoosh.com/ to have the best integration
I want to know how do you develop a multi platform app and/or for one operating system. E.g. If I want to develop an app for all operating systems (IOS and android and windows mobile) is that going to be a mobile site rather than a app or can I develop one app for all platforms.
I know duh... If I want to develop for android I just develop for android. And
The same goes for IOS.
Is there any articles I can read or that you know of that can help me find out.
E.g. The Facebook app did they design one for every platform and now they have to maintain all? Or do they only have one?
Any good articles/tutorials/books that can read or watch to show me more.
In my opinion it's better to develop separate app for every platform.
If you want to develop single app that run on every app you can use any framework.
If you are familiar with C# you can use Xamarin.
Another option is Phonegap. With phonegap you write HTML and JS.
You can design apps for cross-platform compilation, ie FreeRDP is one example. It is available for Android, iOS, MAC OSX, Windows.
For the above you need to put a wrapper or interfaces between your app functions and the OS specific functions.
I am currently developing Android Applications and would like to enter into IOS developing. Many have advised the use of cross platform development tools. I hav searched and found nothing solid. Can anyone suggest a good cross platform deveoping IDE for IOS and Android. Please give suggestions that is sure to work.
I have worked with these both Cross platforms. these are simple to use.
Appcelerator Titanium for cross platform applications.
Using this you can Create rich native iOS, Android, hybrid, and mobile web apps from a single JavaScript-based SDK
PhoneGap
Developing with PhoneGap gives you the freedom to create mobile applications for iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Palm WebOS, Bada and Symbian using the web code you know and love: HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Cordova/PhoneGap works well between iOS and Android but the down side is that you have to use HTML and javascript to implement your application. Native elements such as maps require quite a lot of work although there are many plugins for them. Unfortunately plugins are not standard.
Style sheets and html are good, because they make it relatively easy to scale the application over the huge array of screen sizes.
Window phone has problems with standards and old models are quite slow, but perhaps there is an improvement in WP8.
I'm developping an HTML5 cross-platform game. Now I'm using Phonegap with the Android sdk. But I want this game to work on iOS. Should I have a Mac and repeat all the work on it, or the game will be working on iOS without all this procedure?
PhoneGap doesn't produce one app that can run on different platforms, instead it is used to create an app per platform (each app contains the same version of your HTML5 code). Thus you will have to create an iOS specific version of your app using PhoneGap. This is very quick to do, however you will need a Mac and XCode in order to build the app.
Apple apps also need to be signed with certificates, so you will need to sign up as an iOS developer with the Apple web site and create the necessary certificates.
You could use this site to build your application for all plateforms: https://build.phonegap.com/. For generating your iOS application you should have a certofication licence.
Good luck!
Last night I learnt that it is possible to develop apps for Android using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, much like you would do a client side website. Is this a widely used approach? Because I have started to learn developing with the SDK but I naturally know more about HTML, CSS and Javascript, so I'd like to leverage that knowledge if possible.
So basically my question boils down to this: Are Android web apps as good as native apps? Can the same functionality be achieved through web apps?
Regards
Renault
Check http://www.phonegap.com/start/#android
PhoneGap is based Web Technologies HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
It's very simple to use it. Try it.
Check out Appcelerator Titanium
While other HTML/Css/JS frameworks run your apps inside a web-browser-like environment, Appcelerator claims to run your apps natively. And it seems (almost?) all the functionality that can be achieved through native apps can also be achieved through their SDK.
They also have several convenience features like directly running the app on an emulator or a device, packaging the app for deployment etc., and Titanium Developer runs on Windows, Linux and OS X.