Im starting an official Droid App request page

[disney_fan1972]

Begging.... Pleeeeaaaaaassssseeeee! Pretty please with sugar free ice cream on top!

 

[jsoren11]

ANOTHER BUMP

 

[Blumonkeyboy]

Didnt pete say that the platform wouldnt work for technical reasons?

 

[MM32830]

Didnt pete say that the platform wouldnt work for technical reasons?

The platform (operating system) in itself should not be a restricting factor. There are apps out there available for both the iPhone and Android platforms that are far more intricate than eTicket.

Cost to rewrite the software might be a bigger factor. Are there enough Android users that would purchase eTicket? There are as many (if not more) Android phones out there than iPhones but are they of the correct demographics?




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[doconeill]

There are as many (if not more) Android phones out there than iPhones but are they of the correct demographics?

There is conflicting information now about iPhone vs. Android numbers (or course).

As I've said before, even if Android outnumbers iPhone, an Android programmer must deal with the fragmentation of the Android market. Some phone manufacturers are unable (technically) or unwilling (support, customization issues) to do upgrades of the OS on their phones. So you need to write for the lowest common version, abandon some segment of the market, or maintain multiple versions (which confuses users). How hard that would be to deal with for E-Ticket I don't know - depends if it uses advanced features.

And on top of that, you have to deal with the variances of the phones themselves (multiple screen sizes, etc.)

 

[MM32830]

There is conflicting information now about iPhone vs. Android numbers (or course).

As I've said before, even if Android outnumbers iPhone, an Android programmer must deal with the fragmentation of the Android market. Some phone manufacturers are unable (technically) or unwilling (support, customization issues) to do upgrades of the OS on their phones. So you need to write for the lowest common version, abandon some segment of the market, or maintain multiple versions (which confuses users). How hard that would be to deal with for E-Ticket I don't know - depends if it uses advanced features.

And on top of that, you have to deal with the variances of the phones themselves (multiple screen sizes, etc.)

Are these hurdles to overcome? Absolutely! But are the insurmountable? Absolutely not!

I've look at the SDK (software development kit) for both the iPhone and the Android platforms. There's no reason, technically, that eTicket couldn't be written on the Android platform. However, like I said in my previous post, the reason could be strictly financial.

Once cool feature that could be exploited on the Android platform is Flash. If eTicket was written for the Android platform, I would think about writing it as a client and have the features available on a server. So many advantages to doing this. Development time would be reduced. Cross platform advantages (you could access eTicket from a desktop to input a variety of information like hotel reservations, ADRs, itineraries, etc. and have that data available on your phone). Updates would be seamless.



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[DiRTyBuNNy]

There are actually cross platform development toolkits (Adobe in fact makes one) that allows a developer to write in let's say C++ but compile code that is compatible for either the Android (Yes, the OS is called Android. The line of phones from Verizon are "Droids" with that name used with license from Lucasfilm) or iPhone with no extra programming needed. As for the whole fragmentation debate Google itself has said that they are happy with the platform as it stands with 2.2 aka Froyo and future updates are going to be tweaks not the OS overhauls of the past (i.e. Cupcake, Donut and Eclair).

--DB

 

[doconeill]

Are these hurdles to overcome? Absolutely! But are the insurmountable? Absolutely not!

I've look at the SDK (software development kit) for both the iPhone and the Android platforms. There's no reason, technically, that eTicket couldn't be written on the Android platform. However, like I said in my previous post, the reason could be strictly financial.

I wasn't claiming they were insurmountable. But they DO add to the financial cost.

 

[doconeill]

There are actually cross platform development toolkits (Adobe in fact makes one) that allows a developer to write in let's say C++ but compile code that is compatible for either the Android (Yes, the OS is called Android. The line of phones from Verizon are "Droids" with that name used with license from Lucasfilm) or iPhone with no extra programming needed. As for the whole fragmentation debate Google itself has said that they are happy with the platform as it stands with 2.2 aka Froyo and future updates are going to be tweaks not the OS overhauls of the past (i.e. Cupcake, Donut and Eclair).

--DB

Adobe and Apple are having a tiff about the cross-platform stuff. Apple has said they will not approve an app that wasn't written natively for the iPhone. I don't know if they've backed off that statement yet.

 

[DiRTyBuNNy]

Adobe and Apple are having a tiff about the cross-platform stuff. Apple has said they will not approve an app that wasn't written natively for the iPhone. I don't know if they've backed off that statement yet.

Well, sort of, Apple forbid's via their developer agreement for their to be any mention in the codebase that it was written via crossplatform tools. That's not to say it can't be done and it wouldn't surprise me if Adobe just changed their compiler to omit the offending code. This and many other things are also the reason why the DOJ has got their eye on Apple but then again that's a whole different discussion.

--DB

 

[bradisgoofy]

...Apple has said they will not approve an app that wasn't written natively for the iPhone...

And that is why I will never own an Apple product.

 

[doconeill]

Well, sort of, Apple forbid's via their developer agreement for their to be any mention in the codebase that it was written via crossplatform tools. That's not to say it can't be done and it wouldn't surprise me if Adobe just changed their compiler to omit the offending code. This and many other things are also the reason why the DOJ has got their eye on Apple but then again that's a whole different discussion.

That sounds like they backed off (via a "clarification" )...

Side note...saw a demo of a replacement virtual keyboard for Android called Swype. It's in open beta right now for a short time. You enter text via swiping your finger across the keynoard without having to lift-and-poke. You can enter text a LOT faster. It is coming standard on some phones now.

 

[jsoren11]

Android E-ticket App please!!