Monday, April 30, 2012

Re: GWT Mobile App Widgets

if you are interested in mgwt there is a very friendly user group for
the framework: http://groups.google.com/group/mgwt

mgwt pays a lot of attention to do things in a GWT way, which brings
big advantages to mobile device development.

take a look for yourself at http://www.m-gwt.com



On 30 Apr., 20:43, Alfredo Quiroga-Villamil <laww...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, if you are trying to cover that case, then you must absolutely
> find a mobile library that can potentially support any of the
> installable browsers in mobile devices. The important case to always
> keep in mind I would say is over engineering. Unless it's a
> requirement from the client, I would ask myself the question, what
> percentage of the market am I trying to support? Ideally the answer
> would be 100%, reality it's a different story. This is more the case
> since mobile web is fairly young. Even the web after all these years
> would be a nightmare if you removed GWT and libraries like it that
> have tried to make the developer experience better by hiding the
> browser differences or better said quirks.
>
> About a year and a half ago, perhaps more already, there was a point
> where the future of mobile web for developers looked bright. It was
> all going to be based on webkit or at least most of it and the world
> was going to be a happy place.
>
> Fast forward and we find a world where there is an incredible amount
> of fragmentation in the mobile market place with multiple versions of
> webkit, many don't exactly behaving consistently. Throw into the mix
> your request and it's almost starting to feel like we are right back
> to the web as we know it today where may browsers exists with
> difference in behavior not only between them but even among versions.
>
> Best of luck and wish your project the best.
>
> Alfredo
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> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:01 PM, AgitoM <karel.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well the app runs fine on iPhone Safari, Google Chrome, and the
> > Android Default Browser.
> > However the app does not work on Firefox and Opera installations on
> > the Android platform, so that could be a problem.
> > So still hope someone can make a suggestion.
>
> > On Apr 30, 10:53 pm, Alfredo Quiroga-Villamil <laww...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Mobile web libraries are based on webkit. Firefox is not. Mobile devices
> >> use webkit. To test the app you can try to use a webkit based browser such
> >> as chrome or safari. So if you are happy with that library I recommend you
> >> continue using it and test it as previously mentioned.
>
> >> Regards,
>
> >> Alfredo
> >> On Apr 30, 2012 10:35 AM, "AgitoM" <karel.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> > Does anyone know a decent library that contains GWT Widgets for the
> >> > development of Mobile Apps in GWT?
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> >> > Over the past few days I've been experimenting with gwt-mobile-gui.
> >> > Though this library is great, it doesn't appear to be working on all
> >> > browsers. (or at least I can't get it to work on Firefox).
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> >> > So basically I am looking into other Libraries. Does anyone have any
> >> > suggestions?
>
> >> > Reason I am looking for a mobile widget library is because I am
> >> > developing a mobile app. I developed a framework for a mobile app
> >> > myself, and it works fine, but it looks too ugly.
> >> > If no other library is available, does anyone know any tutorial of
> >> > guide to how to develop nice looking GUI in GWT?
>
> >> > Hope anyone can offer some advice.
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