Jason, I actually downloaded a January 7th image I found on the web. Do you know if that version has the Webkit/SquirrelFish updates in it?
Sorry if this thread has kinda gotten a little off the tracks, guys. E On Apr 8, 12:57 pm, Jason Parekh <jasonpar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Evan Ruff <evan.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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? > > I recommend the Android lists--some members of the Android browser > team monitor those lists (I don't think any of them monitor this > list). Also, filing bugs on the tracker is always recommended. > > As for trying out cupcake, you can build an emulator running Cupcake > with the instructions athttp://source.android.com/download. > > jason > > > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---