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Web GUI frameworks for Phone development

I looked already and couldn't find anything good.

So a question is, are there any good web frameworks that would allow to easily develop GUI for the majority of high end phones? By this I mean

  1. It would have to work "the same" on majority of high end phones (forget the low cost ones)
  2. It would have to simplify the development and hide the ugly details from developer
  3. Clear design and good documentation. Also some stability on the market.
  4. The focus is on good looking and easy to make GUI. Javascript is only a plus.

So basically I am looking for something like jQuery or maybe ExtJS for phone development.

EDIT:

It would be a big plus if it could be consumed in Delphi

EDIT 2:

If it was not clear, I am looking for a web base solution that would run in a browser. So the target is HTML output and not native code.

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Runner Avatar asked Apr 16 '10 14:04

Runner


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To contribute to the subject. I found a question that has answers to such topic:

iWebkit vs. JQTouch vs. iUI

So there seem to be the following frameworks:

  1. iUI
  2. jQTouch
  3. WebApp.net
  4. iWebKit
  5. Yahoo! Blueprint
  6. JQTouch
  7. PhoneGap
  8. Sencha Touch
  9. jQueryMobile

PhoneGap supports a wide variety of phones but it does so by making native (or interpreted I don't know) code to run on them, so it is a no go for me.

Yahoo! Blueprint supports a lot of phones also, but seems to need a special framework to run on. So also a no go.

jQTouch and WebApp.net look promissing, but they only support webkit based browsers. Yes these are in majority these days probably, but Blackberry for one has non webkit based browser and Blackberry is very important to me.

I will keep looking, in the meantime, don't be shy to contribute ;)

EDIT

Found this wiki about some frameworks. Most are embedded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_phone_web_based_application_framework

EDIT2

I added Sencha Touch (www.sencha.com/products/touch) to the list as it was added after this post was created. They are the former ExtJS and now have the WebKit based mobile solution.

EDIT3

I added jQuery Mobile (http://jquerymobile.com/) to the list as it was added after this post was created.

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Runner Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 23:09

Runner