JavaFX on iOS and Android - are we there yet?

[Stephen F Northover]

Rather than arguing this point, the correct answer is to provide both 
and let the application developer choose.

Do you guys know how old this argument is?  Hint: It predates Java.

Steve

On 2013-10-22 6:17 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira wrote:
>> Even the most fab skins or CSS is not going to get us away from the need to
>> integrate JavaFX controls with true native controls.  As has been pointed
>> out, there are some native controls on both iOS and Android for which there
>> is no JavaFX equivalent and this will always be the case.  Even if someone
>> were to develop near identical lightweight controls in JavaFX, they would
>> need to behave slightly differently on iOS than they do on Android and vice
>> versa.
>
> I don't think this is exactly this straight forward. Ideally you would want
> to have this kind of native behavior on every platform. But having this
> native behavior involves having a different version of your app for each OS
> you want to deploy in, which might not be what the developers want.
> Remember JavaFX is a cross platform development kit and the major reason a
> developer would choose JavaFX over doing native mobile development is that
> his app can run on a variety of mobile platforms: windows 8, ipad, android,
> iPhone, etc with the same code base and *MOST* importantly with much less
> development time than building an app for each platform.
> For the sake of development time an app that doesn't go against any of the
> different platforms UX but that has the least common denominator so that
> each user in each different platform understands the UI might be a better
> solution for the sake of development time. One such example is the back
> button that appears when you drill down a list on an ios app but doesn't
> appear in an android app because every android phone as a physical back
> button.
>
> I do agree with you that there are some places where a native looking
> control is ideal and doesn't involve any extra effort from the developer to
> customize it for the given platform like for instance comboboxs where a
> kind of wheel appears where the user can choose an option, or input
> controls where the native keyboard pops up.
>
> Thanks, best regards,
>
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