Comments on: Mobile Development SDKs compared: MoSync, PhoneGap and AppWhirl

By: Frida Adams

Frida Adams — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:53:06 +0000

Its true, that 71% of all Android users want to have an Android phone as their next phone. Though the iPhone users are even more loyal, their 89% number is quite normal for Apple users in General. However, there is not just one phone with an Android OS – there are a lot by now! Therefore, it is hard for Google / Android to provide the very same user experience on every Android phone. Frida Adams from Rapidsoft Technologies

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By: murray

murray — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:11:18 +0000

check out rhomobile and let us know what you think. they potentially support more devices than mosync and work off a trimmed-down ruby and barebones embedded http server. they also have an interesting online webservice and local caching model which allows for seemless online/offline ux. they throw the whole thing together an online file hosting and ide offering. it’s a nice complete package for developers.

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Cross platform development the Next Big Thing « The Mobile Web Tablet — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:27:08 +0000

[...] of the things they highlight is that cross platform development is that cross platform development is on the rise with developers targeting more than one platform. Should be good news for companies [...]

By: Erik Starck

Erik Starck — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:36:59 +0000

Thanks for commenting!

@Pradeep: Yes, we still have some way to go before the tools are where PC IDEs were 10-15 years ago, but things are happening fast now.

@Richard: I wrote a blog post over at the Sony Ericsson community where I toyed with the idea of a one billion apps app store.
That is, an app store that contains one billion apps, at the same scale that the internet contains web pages.
Will we get there? I don’t know, but it was tools such as yours that were in the back of my mind when I wrote the post. Tools that make it order of magnitudes easier to create apps. I’ll be watching you with great interest!

By: Richard Jordan

Richard Jordan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:53:33 +0000

First, thanks so much for taking an interest and writing about AppWhirl, and for trying out our beta service. You’re absolutely right about a couple of things:

1) AppWhirl is definitely not an IDE

We believe that apps are the new form of self expression, that everyone will want one and as such we’re focused on Apps For Everyone. Right now the site is in a very primitive early stage. You’ll see a lot more functionality and app features following our launch at DEMO 2010 – the industry’s premier launch event. Unfortunately we’re contractually embargoed on details till the launch, but we’d love to give you a tour of our new functionality at that time, including multiple platform support (with some platform surprises in there).

2) This is like the early days of the web

We see a world where Apps become the default entry point to Internet content and services in the mass market – not just on mobile phones, but on TVs, Set-top-boxes, consoles etc. There’s a land grab going on over the next few years, for screen real-estate. We view apps as channels of communication between individuals and their audience, channels the end-user opts into by placing on that precious screen-real-estate – the screen they’re doing their media consumption through. We believe we’re not moving from 100,000 apps to 200,000 apps to 300,000. We see there being a million apps by the end of next year and ten million 18-24 months after that. AppWhirl’s aim is to facilitate that vision.

Thank you again for taking the time to review our company. Your article is a great look at the space. We’d be happy to talk with you any time, if you want a bit more of our thoughts on where this movement goes.

By: Pradeep Singh

Pradeep Singh — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:15:05 +0000

No doubt, approach of MoSync is great and they are funded pretty well. Being part of spicelabs and have been using their cross platfrom MITR tool, I may be biased, MITR is another great tool besides J2ME and other webkit/widget based frameworks. I am still evaluating MoSync by developing one application on it.
I used to love development in VC++ and VB on microsoft tools where application development was much easier. During 98-99, i used netscape IFC classes as well for developing UI based applications.
My expectations are having mobile application development tools on the lines of VC/VB development studios. Any cross platform tool which will ease my application development, will be the best. Screen size level layout designs are still big challenge, and obviously various keyboards.