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Comment: Write (nearly) once (Score 1) 197

by oever (#38758662) Attached to: The Headaches of Cross-Platform Mobile Development

At the moment the best alternative is the write the application in OpenGL ES or HTML5. The choice depends on the type of application. Both will need a small wrapper on each platform. PhoneGap is a good choice if you go with HTML5.

I'm not sure how viable the OpenGL ES option is for Windows Phone, but then I personally loathe that platform anyway.

As for look and feel consistency, look at Angry Birds to see that that is not needed at all.

Comment: Re:To summarise the article. (Score 5, Interesting) 121

by oever (#37251080) Attached to: A Talk With Syllable OS Lead Developer Kaj de Vos

That sounds very much like Android Intents and Activities.

An Intent provides a facility for performing late runtime binding between the code in different applications. Its most significant use is in the launching of activities, where it can be thought of as the glue between activities. It is basically a passive data structure holding an abstract description of an action to be performed.

Comment: distributing the private API key (Score 5, Informative) 262

by oever (#36594452) Attached to: Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users' Pics

Each application on facebook get's a private API. In FOSS, this key is present in the source code. That is not permissible according to facebook terms of service. In effect, they are blocking FOSS software. An alternative is to use a different key for each user.

More info: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276609

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