Retrospection: Cross-Platform Mobile Development at EclipseCon
Yesterday, Peter and I talked about \"Cross-Platform Mobile Development with Eclipse\" at EclipseCon in Santa Clara. After some conceptual slides telling about the difficulties one face when targeting different platforms (in our case iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and minimalistic, mobile web), we went over to some live-hacking. First, we presented a domain-specific language for data-driven mobile applications. Our goal was to build an application similar to the official EclipseCon conference apps during the show. The application listed every speaker with a picture, bio and a list of talks. Also, a schedule for every day could be browsed where details of both speakers and sessions were revealed once you clicked on an item of the list. As you might know, there are quite a few options to produce cross-platform native (and look-alikes) mobile applications from a single source. As itemis is specializing in model-driven approaches, we picked a domain-specific language to describe the application togeth
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