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Title: NT app PhoneGap question
Post by: Poul Jensen on September 15, 2016, 11:11:16 PM

Hello,

The NT Apps documentation is all about disconnected apps.

Can NT app mBuild be used to create PhoneGap Build projects for standard NT web-apps or is this only applicable for disconnected apps ?

Cheers
/Poul

Title: Re: NT app PhoneGap question
Post by: Bruce on September 16, 2016, 03:19:06 AM

Hi Poul,

Really only disconnected apps.
There's nothing stopping it from being extended to web apps in general, but what would be the point? at that point the app would "require a connection to work" so I'm not sure what the benefit of doing that would be.

cheers
Bruce

Title: Re: NT app PhoneGap question
Post by: Poul Jensen on September 16, 2016, 06:11:26 AM

Hi Bruce,

The only thing you would achieve is a more standard App look and feel and a standard way of installing and getting an icon on the smartphone's start screen.

If that is worth the trouble I do not know.

/Poul

Title: Re: NT app PhoneGap question
Post by: Bruce on September 18, 2016, 11:33:56 PM

Hi Poul,

you can already add an Icon to the "desktop" which points at a web site/ web app.
ie it's kinda like "bookmarking" a web address on your desktop.

Cheers
Bruce

Title: Re: NT app PhoneGap question
Post by: Poul Jensen on September 19, 2016, 11:43:29 PM

Thanks - I am aware of that.
It is just not as streamlined as a real app.

On the other hand you avoid the various app stores, so that makes distribution easier :-)

Cheers
/Poul