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Agreed that cross platform has compromises but boring is a
relative term and a good UI designer (or a developer with a good
style guide) can pretty much overcome that. <br>
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Cross platform comes into it's own when you lack the development
resources to build native for each platform.<br>
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UI Options include:<br>
- Xamarin Forms (may be good enough for what OVMS needs).<br>
- NativeScript (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nativescript.org/">https://www.nativescript.org/</a>) is a new variation
on the same idea and like Xamarin it claims to give access to
platform specific features, if required.<br>
- Cordova (basic framework for HTML/JS based apps)<br>
- Ionic - based on Cordova but provides a UI framework using
AngularJS. There are several other frameworks which build on
Cordova.<br>
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On 04/06/2015 12:48, Mark Webb-Johnson wrote:<br>
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We actually have an http API that can be used today. The vehicle
information is available and easy to decode using straight https
calls.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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On 4 Jun, 2015, at 11:36 am, Christopher Cook <<a
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I've thought about this before
but not being an OVMS user means I just don't have the
motivation (sorry!) <br>
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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.<br>
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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. <br>
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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).<br>
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Chris<br>
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On 02/06/2015 14:35, Jille Berends wrote:<br>
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way to get Android apps running on Windows mobile:
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<div class="gmail_quote">2015-05-28 3:49 GMT+02:00 Mark
Webb-Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a
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that I know of.<br>
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Regards, Mark.<br>
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> On 28 May, 2015, at 1:53 am, Michael Jochum
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> Hi,<br>
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> i have an inquire: is there is an OVMS App
for WP8?<br>
><br>
> Not for me, i use iPhone ;-) But i know
there is something others outside :-)<br>
><br>
><br>
> Bye<br>
> Michael<br>
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