Thursday, November 26, 2009

QuickConnect Cross Platform Mobile Development

The latest QuickConnectFamily beta, 1.6 beta5, includes Xcode templates for iPhone, Android, and Palm WebOS development.  The file structure is the same across all of the platforms.  You can write your application in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for one device and then move the code into projects for the other platforms.

Coming soon, one project that builds and launches on all platforms.

Things to remember

  1. The 1.6 beta 5 dowload includes the full Android SDK
  2. You have to install the Palm WebOS SDK if you want to develop for that platform
  3. The Android and Palm versions don’t yet have all of the functionality of  the iPhone version.  They are most definitely beta at this time

Here are images of the same simple application running on all of the platforms on my MacBook Pro

[Via http://tetontech.wordpress.com]

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