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Re:Java for iPhone by nilburns27 on Thursday July 26, 2012 @01:27AM (#4294555)
Did any of you really use it or only look at the video? I agree that the UI needs much more work (the entire Swing programming is really old - and not really convenient). I really didn't like the resource-ui tool. However, being able to write once and compile on the cloud (not needing to open 2 environments - eclipse & xcode ide like in PhoneGap is a huge plus). If they will get their act together regarding the UI (html and css for example)they might be the winner in cross-platform development world... Also I wonder their future support in Scala.
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Re:Java for iPhone by pietrofmaggi on Thursday July 26, 2012 @02:43AM (#4294752)
It seems that you are talking about something like RhoMobile Rhodes open source Framework[1] and the RhoHub hosting solution[2]. Rhodes uses HTML5 and ruby to target multiple OSes and RhoHub allows you to build this apps in the cloud.

[1] https://github.com/rhomobile/rhodes

[2] https://app.rhohub.com/

disclaimer: I work for Motorola Solution, the parent company of RhoMobile.

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Re:Java for iPhone by nilburns27 on Thursday July 26, 2012 @04:35PM (#4298549)
I prefer native or html5 for fast deployment - how are the performance in Rhodes (from yours experiences not from "Google Result") vs native?
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