2015-10-02 Long emails on mobile
I received of couple of daily mails from social networks or
diffusion list. I usually read them on my mobile phone
in the subway... They recently became bigger, not the content, just the
formatting... and
they get cut by my phone. If I want to read them, I need to click to download
the end of them. I'm in the subway so it is very slow. I usually give up.
In fact, I always give up. As a result, instead of giving me nicer emails,
the web site which send them to me gives me truncated emails.
2014-01-18 Framework for Mobile Application
What framework to choose if you want to build a mobile application which
will save you some time while deploying on multiple phones?
(Android, Black Berry, iPhone, Windows Phone). I'm not sure
there is a perfect answer and it will probably change in a couple of months.
However, this what I found. I was looking for answers. Which phones does it support today?
Where can you develop your application? Which language? How to build?
How to deploy? Cost? I limited my study to the following frameworks
(according to a friend, the others are not as mature):
- Apache Cordova (or PhoneGaps):
This framework provides a common API in javascript/HTML
to access the API of each phone. The goal is to build application
for many phone based on the same code. It produces
a web application.
- Sencha Touch:
It contains more template javascript/HTML templates than Cordova.
The free framework does not seem to do more than
building a web application with javascript and HTML.
However, you can use both Cordova and Sencha Touch (see below).
- Titanium Mobile:
It is also a framework using javascript/HTML. The framework
can access the native API of each phone (as opposed to Cordova).
You might end up with a different version on each phone.
The framework should give more freedom than the first one.
- Xamarin (+ MvvmCross):
It proposes a way to build phone application written in C#
on every phone (using Mono for iOS and Android).
It gives an access the native API.
The framework also includes the possibility to design hosted on
a remote machine which can communicate with the phone application.
- kivy
A framework in Python (2.7, migration to Python 3 should happen some day).
It was not meant to develop phone application but it now proposes
a way to make it work on Android,
with pyjnius,
and iOS,
with pyobjus and kivy-ios.
This two libraries connect Python to java which accesses the phone
functionalities. There is no support for Windows Phone.
A last module plyer
gives access to some extra functionalities (GPS, text to speech).
more...