iPhone / Android App

My first app. What a painful experience. Intention was to write an app which will run on all major mobile devices.

Starting with Accelerator showed quickly some drawbacks and the learning experience was not pleasant.

Next was PhoneGap based on Apache Cordova. Much better and getting an app running was quite simple. I chose the ionicframework and AnuglarJS as key frameworks to work with. ionic is similar to bootstrap and AngularJS is a MVC based javascript framework. I made an app talking to a google appengine service through RESTful API. And really write once run on all major platforms!

Bootstrap

Bootstrap

I compared 2 HTML5/CSS/JS frameworks and decided to use bootsrap - http://getbootstrap.com/.

The other framework called Foundation http://foundation.zurb.com/ provided similar features but the documentation was better on bootstrap and it seems to have a broader support in web tools (like apache wicket or google web toolkit).

I started to integrate bootstrap into plain web pages, enhanced by some very basic PHP scripting. Beside plain HTML pages bootstrap is very easy to be used in google web toolkit / app engine.

The migration from version 2 to version 3 has several manual migration tasks involved and if you customize your bootstrap there is no easy way to keep your settings (like colors, ...).

But overall it makes it very easy to create web pages to run on any device.