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    I've been doing quite a bit of Mobile work - you may find this lnk helpful as I have.

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    Re: I've been doing quite a bit of Mobile work - you may find this lnk helpful as I h

    Very cool
    Chad Brown

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      Re: I've been doing quite a bit of Mobile work - you may find this lnk helpful as I h

      How cool would it be for Alpha to make a video showing how this free software works, displaying a table top full of mobile devices with an app on them built using Alpha Five?

      Bob
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        #4
        Re: I've been doing quite a bit of Mobile work - you may find this lnk helpful as I h

        Cool application......only problem is I can't afford all those devices...lol

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          Re: I've been doing quite a bit of Mobile work - you may find this lnk helpful as I h

          buy what you can, borrow the rest from your friends
          Gregg
          https://paiza.io is a great site to test and share sql code

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            Re: I've been doing quite a bit of Mobile work - you may find this lnk helpful as I h

            Originally posted by bobalston View Post
            How cool would it be for Alpha to make a video showing how this free software works, displaying a table top full of mobile devices with an app on them built using Alpha Five? Bob
            How cool would it be for Alpha to complete the rest of the mobile components slated for release w/v11 along with videos and instructions on how to tie the components together.

            kenn
            TYVM :) kenn

            Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

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              Re: I've been doing quite a bit of Mobile work - you may find this lnk helpful as I h

              Devices.. They arrive on the doorstep 48 hours after downloading, well that's what I read somewhere... I've had my bag out there for 3 days now and it's still empty... have to wait and see.. :)
              Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
              Albert Einstein, (attributed)
              US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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                Re: I've been doing quite a bit of Mobile work - you may find this lnk helpful as I h

                Originally posted by forskare View Post
                How cool would it be for Alpha to complete the rest of the mobile components slated for release w/v11 along with videos and instructions on how to tie the components together.

                kenn
                True all components need to be mobile compliant including pinch and swipe. This needs to be at the top of most of our lists and alpha's. I believe it was one of the main features promised in v11, but I am sure someone will correct me.
                Chad Brown

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                  Re: I've been doing quite a bit of Mobile work - you may find this lnk helpful as I h

                  Has anyone had success using device emulation software, so you don't have to buy a bunch of mobile phones? Adobe has their Device Central software (broken link removed)

                  I gave a quick test, but I could not get past the login screen with my A5 app without getting some sort of error. But I could run the Web Applications demo okay.

                  -Rich
                  Last edited by Lenny Forziati; 07-20-2021, 11:27 AM.

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                    Re: I've been doing quite a bit of Mobile work - you may find this lnk helpful as I h

                    Yes, Alpha Software did hype up mobile development quite a lot prior to version 11 release. The last comment regarding mobile development that I saw on their blog was sometime in April of last year: "We're still baking the mobile development framework in the oven and it hasn't passed the sniff test yet, but I just can't resist giving you a taste of it." Cute metaphors aside, a big part of my decision to buy Version 11 was the promised mobile capabilities -- the tablet demo with Google maps was quite convincing, but I assume now that it was done with external technology enhancements (jQuery, HTML5, etc.) rather than entirely with the off-the-shelf A5 v.11 framework.

                    Apparently, "mobilizing" the framework is going to require a fair amount of jQuery and HTML5 running inside the framework, and I don't assume that this is a simple task.

                    However, since my next project is going to be a mobile app, I sure hope that at least the basic mobile capabilities (pinch, swipe, tap, automatic screen adjustments for different form factors, etc.) will come online sooner rather than later. If not, I'll have to go with something like PhoneGap or Titanium or something else to get this cross-platform mobile project done. For decision making purposes it would be nice to know how close A5 is to releasing the long promised mobile bits of Version 11.

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                      Re: I've been doing quite a bit of Mobile work - you may find this lnk helpful as I h

                      I couldn't agree with you more. I too expected v11 mobile app to be a viable option by now. I'm certainly not as adept as others in putting a mobile app together and without a finished product from Alpha, I'm dead in the water. Maybe they had to hire a new sniffer or maybe the present sniffer is so good he won't let any more be released.

                      Yes, it would be very nice to hear of an update from Alpha. While I'm a big Alpha supporter, common sense must prevail. I will not entertain the notion of another subscription package until Alpha comes through on this.

                      kenn
                      TYVM :) kenn

                      Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

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