Hi Folks, I'm interested in using GWT for building mobile web apps. I have some experience developing with GWT for desktop browser based RIA's but this is my first effort in mobile focused dev.
I'd appreciate it if others would like to join the discussion: What are your thoughts and impressions on using GWT today for mobile web apps? What does Google have planned for increasing GWT's capabilities in mobile web app development? Where can I find examples, articles, and tutorials focused on using GWT for mobile web apps? (I'm particularly interested in using GWT to build touch optimized UIs) I know GWT compiles Java into optimized JS that can run in mobile browsers. That's great of course but I'm focusing on mobile optimized UI's and layouts. I'm including what I've found so far below (hopefully it will help others just beginning this journey :). 1.) Google I/O 2011 presentations are great and have been my main source of info so far: Chris Ramsdale's "Using GWT and Eclipse to Build Great Mobile Web Apps" demo's the MobileWebApp sample (more below) and discusses addressing GWT mobile app performance by using code splitting, client bundling, app cache (HTML5), and local storage (HTML5). John Labanca's "GWT + HTML5: A web developers dream!" covers HTML5 and what it brings to mobile web app development, namely local storage, canvas (making charts and visualizations), audio, video, drag-n-drop, CSS3. 2.) MobileWebApp sample in GWT 2.4 distribution. This is the app used in Chris Ramsdale's demo. I'm having problems getting it running in Eclipse. Once I've got it running, I'm hoping to better understand the UI components it uses. I've already started testing its method for using deferred binding to send a different view to desktop, mobile and tablet devices. 3.) HTML5 - Both of the aforementioned Google I/O presentations discuss using HTML5 for local storage and app caching. 4.) Community projects. There are a handful of community projects currently out there that are intended to help developers use GWT to build mobile web apps: gwtmobile, gwt-touch, gwt-mobile-webkit, gwt- multi-touch. I'd be interested in hearing feedback on these projects. 5.) Touch events. I see there are a number of touch related classes in the GWT Javadoc. I'm assuming these are for mobile devices. Are there any examples or tutorials out there using these classes? I hope this wasn't TL;DR. I hope to get a feel for how others are using GWT today for building mobile web apps. Thanks! -- 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.
