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> native UI concerns mean you can just publish the same thing to both Android and iOS

That's a myth often seen in "deploy everywhere" mobile dev tools, in reality the design habits/guidelines between the two platforms have a lot of difference and you need a separate UI layer for each more often than not.

Doesn't change the awesomeness of RoboVM, but it had to be said.



Sorry, that was actually I a typo on my part, I meant to write "can't"


> the design habits/guidelines between the two platforms have a lot of difference and you need a separate UI layer for each more often than not

Phonegap is a great tool for writing code once (html5 & javascript) & deploying to many platforms with native capabilities.

I suspect it's not quite there for games, however it has great performance for most CRUD apps.

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Re: RoboVM, I suspect there will be libraries that will properly use iOS-like UI. Some logic branches will be required, however the main flow is centralized and DRY.

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There's also cross platform, openGL based tools. If you are making an openGL game, you minimize your need to use the native UI.

http://coronalabs.com/products/corona-sdk/




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