<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>If we are writing new app across platforms, my recommnedation is to write PWA - Prograssive Web Applications. These are new and are straight away cross platform. PWAs are simple web applications and make use of new web standards like, datastore, service workers. Twitter also has a wtitter lite that is pure PWA. This means we dont have to install any native apps, just visit your site and the site becomes offline on the device. When it gets chance to update from internet we could pull data. The two big things are your clients must use latest browser on their platform and your app should not depend on some native features like proximity sensor, geofencing SMS and ambient lighting etc.</div><div>On the UP side, it is easy to build apps on these platforms. You can choose Angular, Vue or React or even venila JS frameworks to build your site.</div><div><br></div><div>To know what your browser can support visit <a href="https://whatwebcando.today/">https://whatwebcando.today/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Other links to read more on PWA</div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_application">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_application</a></div><div><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Venkat</div><div>On Fri, 2021-11-26 at 18:48 -0500, Michael Potter via Ale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>If it is a currently working web app then this is a good bet:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://ionicframework.com/">https://ionicframework.com/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>There are a lot of options but that one is the easiest for a web developer to get running.</div><div><br></div><div>They have options for cloud builds so you would not need an apple computer to build iOS.</div><div><br></div><div>Having said that, Ionic has a lot of options to sift thru so it may be a bit confusing to pick the right set for you. You might be better off starting with phonegap which is also known as cordova.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://cordova.apache.org/">https://cordova.apache.org/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>phonegap and ionic work very similar so you can easily switch between them. Ionic is just a new code base so there is less historical baggage.</div><div><br></div><div>In a nutshell: your web pages are static html/js files inside of the app and they use webview to display it on the screen to the user.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 2:54 AM Leam Hall via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">Anyone know of a good site or person to turn a small website data input app into an Android/Apple app?<br>
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