[Charlug] phone programming advice

[Bob Evans]

Mono only gets you into the  .NET world...
Is programming in Java an issue?

-be

remote from Albany


On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone know the best resources for phone programming? I know Android
> runs on Linux but you program in Java. I think Blackberry is also in
> Java. How about Samsung? (the market leader in the USA). Or Nokia
> (market leader worldwide). Someone else told me just to program in
> Mono and it can be ported to all platforms. Anyone know about that?
> Right now I'm programming Android on Fedora 8 and 10 in Eclipse and it
> works very well except for the 30 seconds or so to start the emulator.
>
> I'm thinking about taking this iPhone boot camp course:
> http://iphoneclt.eventbrite.com/ but it just seems like too many
> platforms to try to target. It says "The iPhone Development
> Accelerator (IDA) course is specifically designed to take you from
> zero to a working application as quickly as possible. " but what I
> really need is some course that tells me how to write once and run
> everywhere. Even Java cannot do it as it has different UI libraries on
> each phone from what I can tell.
>
> Anyone know what is the best approach? The mono thing? Is everyone
> just making separate apps for every single phone?
>
> Thanks!
> TimJowers
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