I am little confused which one is best for build hybrid mobile application.
IONIC Framework, Onsen Framework, IBM Worklight, Sencha or other. I am familiar with javascript, css, and angular.js
There is no "better" framework. They all have their own strength and weakness.
The only things that matter for me when I want to start a new project with a new technology are:
Is it mature enough to be used in production?
Is it still in developpment?
Is it well documented?
Is the community active?
Is it hard to use?
I'm using Onsen UI And Ionic and for what I can tell, both are doing the job, are easy to learn once you know how to use Angular.
Ionic:
Big community and support
Lots of tool to make your developpment easier
Plugins and themes available
Growing project
Onsen UI
Can be used with multiple framework
Good Documentation
Easy Router implementation
Small community
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Can you explain me how to use Dart flutter with just an ordinary desktop web site?
Let's say I have a website, which has a good responsive design, but I want to make it more handy for mobile users. So, I decide to use Dart, I create a server and then? Do I need to redirect users to f.e. m.mysite.com which is built on flutter widgets, but PC users will redirect to mysite.com? Also, there is an information that since June 2019 you can write desktop web application. What does it mean, we couldn't do that before?
As #Randal Schwartz noted, Flutter Web is in very early stages of development (alpha, I believe), meaning you should not roll with it in production. However, it is the only way to use Flutter to build websites. You can find it at:
https://flutter.dev/web
https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/web
https://flutter.dev/docs/development/platform-integration/web
If you want to use Dart (not Flutter) in a website, you can try these. They are more mature than Flutter Web, but you'll lose "Flutter" features:
VueDart (https://refi64.com/vuedart/)
AngularDart (https://angulardart.dev/)
React-Dart (https://github.com/cleandart/react-dart) (This one is tricky!)
These are all ports of popular JS frameworks (Vue, Angular, and React) to Dart, so you can use them for responsive website design. Note that you might have to do some background research in the original JS framework, to fill in documentation.
Note: All of the above work on both Mac and Windows. Flutter Web/Dart frameworks are not platform dependent.
Flutter has primarily targeted the mobile platform. What is changing is that Flutter is also being developed for desktop and web applications. Not clear what you mean by "desktop web". Both desktop and web flutter are "not ready for prime time", but progress is being made rapidly.
Reading about Ant Design I am getting confused about which library to use for mobile web development. There are two libraries, antd and antd-mobile. While it is clear that antd-mobile supports react-native on iOS and Android, it is unclear which one is best suited for plain mobile (non-native / SPA) web development.
Reading the antd introduction you see statements like "Ant Design which is specially created for internal desktop applications, ...", while reading the antd-mobile introduction you will see "Support Web / iOS / Android platform (Based on React Native)"
From this I would think that ant is somehow not very suitable for web development other than web based desktop (i.e. Elektron) apps.
But trying to build a normal web app with ant-mobile I couldn't get it to work. For example the Button is showing but DatePicker is not. Switching to ant everything seems to work fine.
Am I right to assume that for any non-native mobile development you need to use ant instead of ant-mobile?
If so, what is this supported "Web" platform that antd-mobile is mentioning?
From my experience:
Antd:
Intended for full browser web only (or electron) development, they are no mobile first design, some cases you have to tweak to make you web page look good in mobile.
Antd-mobile:
Antd mobile exports 2 versions of components, the web one (which uses DOM) and the react native version (uses View, Text etc...)
Web version: You can think it's like jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch etc, it's intended to build pure mobile web page/application, the application that you are going to see in a mobile browser. example, go and open facebook.com, amazon.com with a mobile browser (they look really different then the desktop one).
React Native version: You will use this to build a Mobile App (a hybrid app) that sits in Google Play store/App Store, an app that needs to be installed.
Hope it helps.
If I made mistakes please let me know.
I am exploring different options for creating my first mobile app. I am from a web development background using Rails and Postgres.
I am unsure of how something like the Ionic framework works. I've looked around on the web but I weren't able to find answers to my specific question. Is my understanding correct that I will be able to create a full Rails/Postgres backend with various API's and then talk to the backend from my Hybrid mobile app (Ionic framework)?
Can anybody point me to a tutorial that might have worked for them please?
We've just released a tutorial on how to integrate a Rails backend with Ionic, based on our experience building many real world production apps.
You can find it here:
http://www.dovetaildigital.io/blog/2015/8/21/rails-and-ionic-make-love-part-one
This is the first of a three part series in which we move from basic integration to full user authentication and integration testing. Hopefully this is of some help to you!
So if you have any epxerience in web design ionic is a very easy. You build a webpage just like you would for hosting on a server. All ionic does, along with angular js, is extend html's vocabulary using something called directives. I would use the intel xdk. It has brackets as a built in text editor, a built in phone emulator, and a build server for mobile apps all tied into one. You can also start with an ionic template. what you end up with is some html, javascript (mostly angular js), and some css. Then that code is built into a mobile app for whatever platform you choose through the cordova build process. You can grab the intel xdk here https://software.intel.com/en-us/html5/tools, ionic docs are here http://ionicframework.com/docs/, and an ionic tutorial here http://ionicframework.com/getting-started/. Best of luck to you!
is it possible to publish a mobile (specifically IOS) app using Flex Builder 3, or is this only available on Flash Builder 4.5 and later?
Mobile support is only available in Flash Builder 4.5 and later. You can use the free command line tools to create mobile applications; but I strongly recommend that you upgrade your tooling because it will save you a lot of headaches.
Although it is possible, I am not sure I would recommend trying to publish a Flex 3 based app to iOS or any mobile platform. Rewriting the app to use Spark components is going to give a much more optimized performance.
A client wants a blackberry application for listening live radio for his radio station. We focused on iPhone development. I know Java language have done several projects. However haven't tried yet J2ME. Which do you recommend J2ME or HTML Javascript framework like PhoneGap or any other cross platform framework? What are the advantages and disadvantages of them? Thanks.
If you are comfortable with Java Swing or other Java UI programming then going with native is probably a great idea.
If you are more comfortable with HTML, JavaScript and CSS then use PhoneGap. If you are planning on deploying your application to more than one platform then definitely use PhoneGap. PhoneGap also allows you to write native BlackBerry Java code and integrate that with the HTML / JS code in case the specific APIs you need are not exposed.
With the imminent release of BlackBerry OS 6 things should get a lot better on that platform for both PhoneGap (since the browser is now WebKit based) and for native Java programming.
There are many other comparisons between PhoneGap and X on stackoverflow, though most other cross platform frameworks don't support BlackBerry.
J2ME: Blackberry supports this (and is fact still the BB's core), however it's a rapidly aging platform. You can't do many interesting things in BB without the proprietary APIs.
Phonegap: Haven't used it myself but I've heard so-so things about it. High footprint, lowest-common-denominator etc.