Why even bother considering an app for displaying and sorting a table? Plain HTML / Javascript would just do the work for that, it is cross platform, and it looks like will last for a few years :)
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 3:13 AM, bilbosax <[email protected]> wrote: > So I showed the app that you all have been helping me to optimize to many > people and they think we need to bring it to the masses on mobile devices. > My app has to heavily process data that could take forever to process on a > mobile device and display it in tabular form. This would be inefficient. > So the plan is to do all of the heavy processing on a mainframe every night > at 3am. Then, a mobile user would only need to download the data when the > app opens instead of processing it on the device, and they could sort and > filter the data using the application as they see fit. This would make it > much more responsive. > > I will be the first to admit that I am not a very good programmer. I do > not > have the skills or time to write an app in different languages for each > device and to maintain them. I need a platform that I can write once and > it > will work on iOS and Android on both phones and tablets. The only > prerequisites that I have is that I can skin buttons for a customized look, > plays nicely with arrays, and is very good at displaying webcontent such as > pages or Google Maps. > > My first thought was Adobe AIR, because I am already familiar with that > language so the learning curve for doing a mobile app would be low. But > this is an app that would have a life of at least 5-10 years, and I am just > sooo uneasy about Adobe's commitment to AIR in the long term. We may try > to > sell this to a bigger company for their clients and investors to use and I > don't know if they would have a lot of confidence in Adobe Air either. I > just absolutely love the platform though. > > I have done a little searching and options like PhoneGap seem to be getting > a lot of attention. So for all of you mobile developers, which is the > best/easiest/reliable cross platform program to develop an app for? Thanks > for your thoughts! > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://apache-flex-users. > 2333346.n4.nabble.com/Best-Cross-Platform-Mobile-App-tp13260.html > Sent from the Apache Flex Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
