[Chicago] Suggestions/Advice?

[Daniel Peters]

Ya'll this is such an awesome list of information.  I appreciate it so much.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Chad Glendenin <chad at glendenin.com> wrote:

> I've found that PhoneGap works well with the camera. Also, Sencha Touch
> has some wrapper functions to access native features (
> http://docs.sencha.com/touch/**2-0/#!/guide/native_apis<http://docs.sencha.com/touch/2-0/#%21/guide/native_apis>
> ).
>
>
>
> Tathagata Dasgupta wrote:
>
>> How good is phonegap for accessing camera, bluetooth, nfc or other
>> sensors?
>> [So convenient to ask than RTFM-ing + trying it out ... lazy_me]
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:09 AM, JP Bader<jp at zavteq.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> I'll get slammed for saying this, but Adobe AIR can also be compiled
>>> down to an .apk and run natively on Android.  You could write
>>> something in AS3 or the Flex Framework (now on Apache 4.8 release) and
>>> run it there.  It's very accessible and quick to learn, however there
>>> are a lot of caveats (but that's with any language).
>>>
>>> JP
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Kumar McMillan
>>> <kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Daniel Peters<danieltpeters at gmail.com*
>>>> *>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm about to dive into some android development and could use any
>>>>> advice
>>>>> or suggestions on a solid primer on java.  I've never written a line
>>>>> of it
>>>>> and the brief bit of googling I've done has left me overwhelmed on
>>>>> where to
>>>>> start.  So aside from the obvious ("Don't"), what would you say to a
>>>>> python
>>>>> programmer about to get into java chipy?
>>>>>
>>>>>  Hey Daniel.
>>>> You should forget Java and use PhoneGap http://phonegap.com/ The side
>>>> effect
>>>> is that you'll also have an iOS app when you're done ;) These
>>>> proprietary
>>>> stacks need to die. You might run into issues where you have to go a
>>>> native
>>>> route but it's worth a try first to see how far you get.
>>>>
>>>> Kumar
>>>>
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