Re: [Rails] Build mobile apps for Rails sites — Would XML/JSON passing be the best approach?

Sure, happy to use JSON as the format.

I wouldn't want to use anything like PhoneGap, since I am also
integrating hardware components.

Not too mention I have C, C++, Ruby and Python skills to leverage, so
native app development is no problem.

In fact, I was considering open-sourcing this whole mobile JSON
interfacing format, in order to gain community standardisation.

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Peter De Berdt
<peter.de.berdt@pandora.be> wrote:
>
> On 21 Nov 2011, at 11:29, Alec Taylor wrote:
>
> I am strongly considering building my project using Rails.
>
> My project will provide a web-interface and a mobile app.
>
> I was thinking to build the mobile app from XML sheets, i.e.:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <mobile version="3.1.3">
> <newstory>text here</newstory>
> <newstory>text here</newstory>
> <newstory>text here</newstory>
> <newstory>text here</newstory>
> <pinned><newstory>text here</newstory></pinned>
> </mobile>
>
> Then I could easily parse the XML file using Qt and display it in a neat way
> in the mobile app.
>
> I'm not sure if this is the best approach, so am open to recommendations.
>
>
> Or you could just stick with HTML and go for PhoneGap, gives you just about
> every mobile platform you could ever wish for.
>
> For your data exchange, JSON is probably the best one. It's much less
> verbose than XML in just about any case. In any case, for mobile devices
> (and even for a snappy desktop experience), you want to build your app to
> transfer the least amount of data possible. Plenty of resources about that
> around the web.
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
> Peter De Berdt
>
>
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