Posts tagged "mosync"

Travel Through the Wormhole of HTML5 and C++ With MoSync

Posted by Harper on 05 November 2011   |   Tags: mosync, html5, C++, cross-platform

HTML5 may be the best thing since sliced bread, but some might argue it's not moving quite fast enough to keep up with the demands of the mobile market. APIs from W3C are slowly emerging, making it hard for pure HTML5 apps to take advantage of certain device functionality like high processor speeds, mobile cameras, accelerometers and even barometers. Meanwhile, clients and managers are bringing up HTML5 to developers, expecting them to get onboard, without fully understanding its limitations.

But MoSync, a small company from Sweden, has released the latest version of its open-source development environment, which it says combines the ease of development and UI slickness of HTML5 with the powerful capabilities of C++, giving developers the best of both worlds. Part of its latest (v2.7) release, it’s dubbed "Wormhole Technology", and offers several benefits for developers, while maintaining Mosync's core capability of enabling cross-platform development.

The main benefit is really...

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Mobileapps2.0 : Dennis Korkchi talks about Bloo

Posted by ThibautR on 10 September 2010   |   Tags: mosync, mobileapps2.0, bloo

 

Bloo LogoThis is the second interview in our series dedicated to changing lifecycle in mobile development. If you missed the first episode of this epic (in making), here's a quick summary :
"A few years back open source arrived in mobile with much noise and fanfare... it was going to revolutionalize the industry with niche OEMs appearing, hackable devices and a broad developer appeal... Well there was a revolution but maybe not in the way we expected it... open source development practices, code copy-pasting a la web development, open source cross platform development frameworks, "no barrier to submission" appstores and web APIs have had a much stronger impact than the open sourcing of entire OSes... 
Debatable? Related phenomena? "
 
That's what we'll continue to explore with this interview...with another cross platform application, we're now looking at a flirting service from Swedish company bloo,. With a particular emphasis on the nightmare of the "release often, certify...

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