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If you need nice looking/doing App, dont even look into cordova.
We did try few things but I got totally bored with it. I'd prefer three different environment and do native dev. The app you mentioned looks fairly simple , you can do with :
*VS2013+WindowsPhone SDK
*Android Studio
*Xcode/Objective C
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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At this point, it doesn't appear to need to be "nice looking".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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As today there are two options...
1. Apache Cordova - free, but uses JavaScript
2. Xamarin - cost money, but uses C#
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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At $1000 per supported platform, Xamarin is ridiculously expensive.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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In case you missed the news...Xamarin now comes free with every edition of Visual Studio 2015...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Or RemObjects for all 3 platforms in C#, Pascal (like Delphi), and Silver (like Swift).
Although you can use some common business library code, it does require that you know all 3 platforms libraries and UIs.
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It seems to be a rather simple app. I suggest you using a hybrid approach (JavaScript...). Take a look at Telerik App Builder. Their products are good. Also they have automatic submission to app stores. As far as I remember it was free and it really saves time.
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Telerik App Builder: Wow - $1800/year? It appears like it's just a paid version Cordova...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Ugh, It seems they've raised the prices. The builders was free some time ago... Sorry my bad.
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John,
Have a look at NSBasic (www.nsbasic.com). It's an outfit out of Canada that has a tool for developing to mobile devices. I haven't gotten deep into it, myself (I wrote an HP Calculator simulator in it, and it works nicely). I'm not even touching what I think it's capable of. The thing will allow you to develop to the app stores or do it by deploying the app to a server (not quite a "side-load" but it seems to work pretty well). It will develop to a number of different devices and formats and is in active development. I think these guys are really onto something, and it only costs $99, I think. It really shows some promise, IMHO.
-CM
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If you are just developing and testing but don't need to actually put it on the store, XCode lets you do that without the $99 fee now.
I need an app that will automatically deliver a new BBBBBBBBaBB (beautiful blonde bimbo brandishing bountiful bobbing bare breasts and bodacious butt) every day.
John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Xamarin has a free version of their app and your's sounds simple enough to use this version. Xamarin is perfect for cross platform development in C#. You can use a hackintosh for The Apple version.
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Xamarin is free now that Microsoft has bought them.
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My 6 yr old little cousin, looking at the keyboard asked me what this particular key "Scroll Lock" do.
I had to say, "It would turn the 2nd LED On & Off".
"The Scroll Lock key was meant to lock all scrolling techniques, and is a remnant from the original IBM PC keyboard, though it is not used by most modern-day software. In the original design, Scroll Lock was intended to modify the behavior of the arrow keys."
There's a key, there's a spring & all mechanism, there's print, an LED - But all got no use , & still it comes along, even with the brand new keyboards. Scroll lock is present in all your keyboards? Anywhere there's an use?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Ain't no such key on my keyboard, or my wife's.
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Vunic wrote: Scroll lock is present in all your keyboards? Anywhere there's an use?
Yes. It's so you can swear an excel when the arrow keys stop doing what you expect them to.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Scroll lock today is used by at least Cakewalk Sonar DAW software to inhibit horizontal scrolling of the wave forms along the timeline as a song plays so you can edit a area of data in that song.
I'm sure there are others.
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The trouble is that keyboards have to be backwards compatible: if there was a key and a LED, then some app which may be important to the user may have used it. The additional cost is trivial compared to the shouts of fury if an app can't be used because it isn't there!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Vunic wrote: "It would turn the 2nd LED On & Off".
There are Arduino projects and the like that do little more than that. Never underestimate the power to impress of switching on a light! Oh, and on my keyboard it's the third not the 2nd!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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On mine, it's the third of four - I have an extra one. Oooo! Shiny....
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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and I suppose your amp goes up to 11 too
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Nah, I'm not greedy. 10.5
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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lol
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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