[Ovmsdev] Fwd: Re: App for Windows Phone?

[Mark Webb-Johnson]

We actually have an http API that can be used today. The vehicle information is available and easy to decode using straight https calls.

The problem with cross-platform tools is really the boring interfaces that they provide and the lack of support for what makes each platform special. These apps tend to end up looking like web pages.

That said, I have a project about to start to use one of these tools for my day-job. Perhaps I'll change my mind after seeing how that project works out, but at the moment these tools really don't interest me, personally. And that is the key problem - I guess the reason that there is no WP8 app at the moment is that nobody felt the itch to personally do it. Nobody with the required skills AND and using WP8 AND willing to commit the time and effort. As a hobbyist project, we depend on people to scratch their own itches.

I'll let you know how my day-job project works out. It is a fairly simple job, and a web style interface should be fine as it is mostly forms based work. I am particularly interested to see how the cross-platform PUSH notifications work out for that.

Regards, Mark

> On 4 Jun, 2015, at 11:36 am, Christopher Cook <christopher.cook at webprofusion.com> wrote:
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> 
> I've thought about this before but not being an OVMS user means I just don't have the motivation (sorry!) 
> 
> A long term cross platform solution would be to develop using Xamarin then much of the (C#) code could be shared across platforms. A basic shared UI can be done using Xamarin Forms but the tricky part of an OVMS app isn't really the UI, it's the server comms/decoding/encoding.
> 
> Another alternative is allow an HTML UI for the app (as we use for Open Charge Map) which would require a native Cordova plugin for each supported platform to do the low level comms/translation. The plugin would expose a high level api to the app to pass in/out JSON objects that the javascript based app can then use. 
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> Alternatively a full HTTP or Websockets based server API that any app can use would remove the need for a native component (standard javascript can't talk to normal sockets).
> 
> Chris
> 
>> On 02/06/2015 14:35, Jille Berends wrote:
>> According to the news, MS is working on a way to get Android apps running on Windows mobile:
>> http://www.techtimes.com/articles/49681/20150502/android-apps-coming-windows-phones-will-help-resurrect-microsofts-mobile.htm
>> 
>> 2015-05-28 3:49 GMT+02:00 Mark Webb-Johnson <mark at webb-johnson.net>:
>>> Not that I know of.
>>> 
>>> Regards, Mark.
>>> 
>>> > On 28 May, 2015, at 1:53 am, Michael Jochum <mikeljo at me.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > i have an inquire: is there is an OVMS App for WP8?
>>> >
>>> > Not for me, i use iPhone ;-) But i know there is something others outside :-)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Bye
>>> > Michael
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