QT is ok if you can code in c++ but kivy works in python and using qml a powerful language to create your interface. Cordova is great if you want a webpage in your phone. I don't like how slow it is.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 7:25 AM Gary Cowell <gary.cow...@gmail.com> wrote: > This UI independence is the most important thing, actually (for me) > > There's the 'Visual Basic' way of coding, where each control component > will contain the business logic for the thing that happens when you press > the button. I see this so often. > > But better, is to have a module, or modules, that perform the business > logic, interact with other web services, and have web2py call upon these > module functions when UI interactions take place. In this way, you can > build useful things using your business rules, from command line admin > tools, to web apps using 'framework of the day', to desktop or mobile GUI > apps in Kivy or anything else, and you're always leveraging your module > code. > > Example, I was working on a tool to interact with Amazon Web Services, > cloudformation stack creation etc. Originally I built the app using pyqt, > but then I switched to pyside, not a huge change there, but still. Then I > built a new UI in kivy and deployed an android version. Finally the > production version I built with web2py and it's there still. I could have > used django at that point, or turbogears, or whatever (although I most like > web2py for web development in python). Point is though, I didn't have to > rewrite 80% of my code each time. Just the UI parts, and learning things > like ajax reloading in web2py. > > This was developing the entire app on a new platform. > > If I'd started with web2py, and built and deployed the first version on > that platform as you have done, then any mobile development would most > likely have used web services exposed by my web2py app, and interacted with > those. Seeing you already have a web2py app running, exposing some > services you want to access via mobile seems like the way to do it to me. > > > > On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 00:36:09 UTC+1, Encompass solutions wrote: > >> The best thing to do here is abstract your interface. Web2py does a fine >> job of it. >> Most likely your wanting to make the app and then communicate over json >> objects in post requests. >> With Kivy you should be able to make something pretty interesting and you >> can use the same skills you have learned in python there. And then QML is >> pretty awesome stuff. I used to work for Qt so I would know. :) >> I haven't seen Kivy in production code yet, but you can be a first. :) >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:04 PM eric cuver <amihaco...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > good question I am also interested in the answer >>> >>> >>> Le lundi 1 juin 2015 16:19:56 UTC+2, Joe a écrit : >>>> >>>> I developed a web app with Web2py. It works great, I thing Web2py is >>>> fantastic. >>>> >>>> I want to create a mobile app from my web app and I am not sure what is >>>> the best approach. >>>> Does anyone have any experience using Kivy? Does it work with Web2py? >>>> Or, is there a alternative solution to Kivy? >>>> >>> -- >>> Resources: >>> - http://web2py.com >>> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) >>> - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) >>> - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "web2py-users" group. >>> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to web2py+un...@googlegroups.com. >> >> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
