Hey guys, Little stream of conciseness here, sorry if this is a bit long/ disjoined.
I was wondering if anyone had done any work with GWT and the Android Browser. While I'm getting basic functionality to work, the general speed, responsiveness and user experience seem very sluggish and, well, sorta bad. Another issue I'm having is locating a group to go to for support, examples and help. While I'm interested in GWT with Android, it seems that Android Developers Group is really only interested in native apps. Where to go for Browser specific help? Anyways, some of the particulars I've run into: What group to go to? 1. Issues Controlling the viewport: No matter what I do, I can't seem to get proper control of the viewport. Editing the meta data, overflow CSS properties, insuring that the window's objects are small, etc. I'm continually getting white space borders and stuff like that. This causes weird finger behavior, especially allowing the user to browse into the white space. 2. HTML5/Gears Wrappers: I was wondering if the Gears API has an implementation to support HTML5 storage/cache issues in case of a non- gears enabled client. If not, is there a library anywhere that supports the encapsulation for GWT? 3. MouseListeners: The OS seems to swallow up the MouseUp event in order to do detection of scroll/drag type stuff. I guess I understand why it does it for the drag type thing, but it never fires MouseUp even after the drag is done. Ehh... fair enough, I guess. 4. Focus Panel ClickListeners: When I click a focus panel, a orange circle shows up in the upper/left corner with what seems like a cursor in it? (http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff2/gte619n/ selectBubble.png) Also seems like a non-trivial delay between the press and then a following action. Makes the app seem especially sluggish. 5. Image Loading/Display: Seems really slow. Even when doing background repositioning to flip sprites. Additionally, the images don't seem to load in any fixed order and method. Also seems to hang when loading images (http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff2/gte619n/ selectBubble.png) I've attempted to get around this by doing Prefetch and such, but nothing seems to work. Seems like it needs to talk itself into refreshing the screen after loading finishes (even in localhost in the emulator) 6. Visibility hide/show: Very sluggish in general. 7. Scroll inside divs: Flat out doesn't support this. I guess the Cupcake release, bringing the browser up to Nov 2008 Webkit, should fix this but I still don't have any visibility into that release. Has anyone compiled some best practices to use when building an Application for Android? Maybe even some widgets or JSNI breakouts to better manage the behavior and performance of the app? Thanks! Evan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
