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Re:Google j2objc, a Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool... by cromwellian on Friday October 24, 2014 @06:26AM (#8502963)
Case in point: Inbox by Gmail. It is not just a thin skin over AJAX calls, but actually a fairly sophisticated client side application.
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Re:Google j2objc, a Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool... by akrymski on Friday October 24, 2014 @07:42AM (#8503154)
> a fairly sophisticated client side application is it actually an full blown IMAP client? Most likely it uses AJAX to fetch JSON from Google's proprietary APIs
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Re:Google j2objc, a Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool... by cromwellian on Friday October 24, 2014 @12:01PM (#8504270)
It works offline, that should give you a clue that it is not just a request/response app. Yes, it does make requests to Google's servers, but it can run completely offline with no connection as well.
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Re:Google j2objc, a Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool... by betteringred on Friday October 24, 2014 @07:16AM (#8503084)
Does Google Inbox use J2ObjC? You seem to be alluding to that but not explicitly saying it.
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Re:Google j2objc, a Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool... by bookwormAT on Friday October 24, 2014 @10:24AM (#8503786)
Google Inbox is indeed written in J2ObjC:

See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/j2objc-discuss/5lMZN...

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