Hey Jason, I'm just a lowly Windows user. Any chance you could send me the img files from a recent nightly?
Thanks! E On Apr 8, 2:35 pm, Jason Parekh <jasonpar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Evan Ruff <evan.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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? > > Nope, sorry. > > I know it's a lot of work, but building from the repo may be a good > idea (there's been a lot of change since early January). > > jason > > > > > 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 theAndroid > >> > 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 thatAndroidDevelopers Group is really only > >> > interested in native apps. Where to go for Browser specific help? > > >> I recommend theAndroidlists--some members of theAndroidbrowser > >> 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 forAndroid? 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---