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scud bomb
scud bomb

Reputation: 417

Building mobile app derivative of Rails web app

How does one approach building the mobile app version of one's Rails app, with little to no mobile development experience? iOS, Android, one or the other, or both.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 175

Answers (2)

Nikolay Elenkov
Nikolay Elenkov

Reputation: 52936

First, you might want to create (private) APIs for services your web app provides. The de facto standard for Android apps is REST-like endpoints that accept/return JSON. You can use whatever Ruby REST framework works best. Then you need to consider how you would authenticate Android apps, if needed. Do you use the same authentication database? Can you allow anonymous access, what parts of the app do you expose, etc.

Finally, you need to build the frontend. A few options here:

  • learn Android
  • hire someone to do it
  • use a framework that lets you develop using Web(-like) technologies: Thitanium, Rhodes, etc. The upside is that you get to use what you know and might also get an iOS app for free. The downside is that you can never get the native performance, and look-and-feel might not be completely Android-like (never used Rhodes, so maybe it does this well enough, but still)

Upvotes: 1

gayavat
gayavat

Reputation: 19398

Consider using http://www.rhomobile.com/.

Upvotes: 1

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