You do know that Java is a dominant development platform for phones,
right? J2ME ring any bells?
J2ME with JSR231 (JOGL) would allow truly gorgeous apps to run on
this device.
-Joshua
On Jan 11, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Sean Reilly wrote:
This may sounds like heresy, but would it really matter if Java
apps could run on the iPhone? It's not like a swing/swt/awt
application would be able to transparently integrate with the multi-
touch screen. I'd love to get that kind of smooth scrolling in my
desktop swing application, never-mind on a wafer thin handheld
device! I think Steve J's head would explode if he saw the average
swing app running on this beautiful device.
I assume the iPhone demands a specialized GUI library that would
have to be native in order to get the kind of performance and
graphics quality that we saw on Tuesday. Not to mention that a
desktop java app can suck up large amounts of memory and you never
know it because the VM takes care of it, but on a phone with java
running a VM context switch would be downright painful.
Maybe we should focus on lobbying for *any* kind of development kit
for the iPhone. Java would be nice, but unless Apple also comes up
with an API for the multi-touch smooth scrolling graphics (thus
making it very platform specific and negating the primary benefit
of java) then we might as well all polish up our Cocoa skills (not
such a bad thing).
Cheers,
Sean
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