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iPhone/PhoneGap like NSBasic
justapps:
It would be cool to have a way for Lazarus to generate Javascript/HTML5 apps and then package them into a real iOS app using PhoneGap like NSBasic is doing. Except using Pascal instead of BASIC would be nice along with the code completion features that Lazarus offers.
Phil:
Rather than waiting for something that will never happen, why not just start developing for iOS today? PhoneGap is a good choice if want to try to target both iOS and Android with the same JS / HTML / CSS codebase. Many PhoneGap users develop their app's UI with jQuery Mobile (http://jquerymobile.com/) or Sencha Touch (http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/). Or you could use Dashcode (http://web.me.com/macpgmr/ObjP/MacXPlatform_Part9.html).
I used to think that PhoneGap was just a niche tool, but I noticed last week that the number of registered users on the PhoneGap forum is now greater than Lazarus, even though PhoneGap forum has only been around for 3 years.
Many native mobile apps are connected to things on the Web, for example to a Web service. You can write the part that resides on a Web server in anything you want, even Pascal.
You can also write a native iOS app with Pascal if you want. Here's how:
http://web.me.com/macpgmr/ObjP/Xcode4/ObjP_Intro.html
Thanks.
-Phil
felipemdc:
--- Quote from: justapps on July 19, 2011, 09:33:36 pm ---It would be cool to have a way for Lazarus to generate Javascript/HTML5 apps and then package them into a real iOS app using PhoneGap like NSBasic is doing. Except using Pascal instead of BASIC would be nice along with the code completion features that Lazarus offers.
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Why HTML5+Javascript when you can have a real native fast application developed in Objective Pascal?
See more details here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/FPC_PasCocoa
And here: http://web.me.com/macpgmr/ObjP/Xcode4/ObjP_Intro.html
And there are also articles published about Objective Pascal in the Toolbox german magazine and in the Blaise Pascal Magazine (this one in english).
felipemdc:
--- Quote from: Phil on July 20, 2011, 03:42:47 am ---Rather than waiting for something that will never happen, why not just start developing for iOS today? PhoneGap is a good choice if want to try to target both iOS and Android with the same JS / HTML / CSS codebase. Many PhoneGap users develop their app's UI with jQuery Mobile (http://jquerymobile.com/) or Sencha Touch (http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/). Or you could use Dashcode (http://web.me.com/macpgmr/ObjP/MacXPlatform_Part9.html).
I used to think that PhoneGap was just a niche tool, but I noticed last week that the number of registered users on the PhoneGap forum is now greater than Lazarus, even though PhoneGap forum has only been around for 3 years.
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I am sorry to say this Phil, but you each time more resamble Rudy from the Embarcadero Forums. Rudy from the TeamB used to be a supporter of Delphi, but in the last years he hangs around in the Embarcadero Forum just to recommend people using other tools and to say how C# and Visual Studio are better then Delphi. Is that the way you are going?
jl:
--- Quote from: felipemdc on July 20, 2011, 09:48:09 am ---
--- Quote from: Phil on July 20, 2011, 03:42:47 am ---Rather than waiting for something that will never happen, why not just start developing for iOS today? PhoneGap is a good choice if want to try to target both iOS and Android with the same JS / HTML / CSS codebase. Many PhoneGap users develop their app's UI with jQuery Mobile (http://jquerymobile.com/) or Sencha Touch (http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/). Or you could use Dashcode (http://web.me.com/macpgmr/ObjP/MacXPlatform_Part9.html).
I used to think that PhoneGap was just a niche tool, but I noticed last week that the number of registered users on the PhoneGap forum is now greater than Lazarus, even though PhoneGap forum has only been around for 3 years.
--- End quote ---
I am sorry to say this Phil, but you each time more resamble Rudy from the Embarcadero Forums. Rudy from the TeamB used to be a supporter of Delphi, but in the last years he hangs around in the Embarcadero Forum just to recommend people using other tools and to say how C# and Visual Studio are better then Delphi. Is that the way you are going?
--- End quote ---
It will be good if all of us consolidate our efforts onto a common platform instead of having competing products.
I sell software for end user, but I try to avoid having to change platforms - a new technology means that I will need to learn something new, and time is money.
There's so many competitive platforms out there for Pascal based RIA, Delphi Prism, Unigui, Morfik, Raudus (hope the spelling is right), extpascal, fcl-web. None are really good. the market is probably fewer than 1000 users for all of them. Extpascal is not even beta. Everyone is wasting time.
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