On 24 August 2014 17:08, <and...@benjamin.dk> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I am about to develop my first mobile app with the same function of a > website I have developed in rails. So I have a few questions: > > 1. My plan is to create an API to the website and build the app using that > API to my website. In your experience is that a good solution?
Yes, but you should not need a separate API, you can use the same routes but with .json to return a json value for the app. > > 2. Whats the best option, use a cross-platform framework like > http://rhomobile.com/ ? something like rubymotion for iOS and try to find > another framework for android? or actually just do it on the given SDK? Don't know about cross platform support, I have only done android, using the SDK > > 3. Should I not even worry about developing a website and go straight ahead > with the app leaving the API idea behind? I thought you said you already have developed the website so I don't understand the question. > > 4. Any other suggestions? There is an alternative that may be a quick route to getting something working, which is to embed the website in an app. It will not give as good a user experience as an fully fledged app of course. Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLstkbUuKrz94oj%3Dz%2BbC33fvRBaEdMXj930YcYT2h0WWqw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
