Web Development for Android...

[underparnv]

Hey everyone,

I'm a web developer and tinkerer. I would like to make a web application (possibly applications...) specific to the Android platform, and have a test page up for everyone.

Please check out this page in both your regular browser (or, if you're geeky like me, browsers ) and see if you get the message boxes. You should only see them within Android...here's to hoping anyway:

http://www.dmwc.biz/m/

If this works for a majority of users, I can see a lot of games being developed soon... :P

Thanks in advance,

underparnv

[LazyGenius]

i just tried it on my phone and it worked.

[underparnv]

Sweet...one for one!! :P

[ickyfehmleh]

Why not fire up the Android emulator and use that to determine HTTP_USER_AGENT strings?

[underparnv]

I'm at work and can't install the emulator :P

Also...I'm more looking to make sure the javascript works. It's all ExtJS and I wasn't sure if it was going to be slow on the G1 or not...so I put it to the test...albeit a simple one. A more sophisticated test will be forthcoming...

[LazyGenius]

I'm at work and can't install the emulator :P

Also...I'm more looking to make sure the javascript works. It's all ExtJS and I wasn't sure if it was going to be slow on the G1 or not...so I put it to the test...albeit a simple one. A more sophisticated test will be forthcoming...

i will participate in any test that helps g1/android/ or any dev that makes free apps

[underparnv]

Well...prepare to help test

More details forthcoming...

First example will be Crazy Eights, so practice up!!

[skaflyer]

let me start by saying i'm not trying to be negative... but may i ask why you are trying to develop web apps for android instead of native apps? I too am a web developer/programmer, but I cannot see how any web app will be able to provide good functionality to the end user. What are your thoughts?

[underparnv]

Hey skaflyer,

Mostly it has to do that I'm more of a web developer than a regular programmer. In fact, I don't believe I've ever coded in Java though I have done some simple stuff in VB...if that gives you any indication of my programming experience

Don't get me wrong, I'm going to try to learn. I am actually installing Eclipse on my Ubuntu machine at home to try to get started writing native apps...and hope to be up to speed as quickly as a can. For now, however, I already know how to write web apps...and if I can get some simple javascript working on there, there are no limits to what I can make for the most part...at least for what I have in mind :P

Hope that answers your question

[ZooMob]

Sounds good. Would like to see what you can create...