I didn't know Gideros had UI components that allowed us to make
apps instead of games.
After seen
report complete application from
@SinisterSoft I looked for UI components in documentation and I didn't found out some components, like an input text element.
Is there any external UI library to allow us to make a full application (not a game )?
I'm asking this because I don't know if
@SinisterSoft made his own UI library neither how complete, mature this library is.
I was considering to use flutter (that is written in Dart programming language) to make apps for desktop and mobile phones, but if Gideros can do it as flutter does I'd be very happy to stick with it.
Thanks.
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2, https://wiki.giderosmobile.com/index.php/KeyCode
Also in the forum someone posted a text editor created in gideros
There is no difference between apps and games - games are very advanced apps
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Some of the really cool things about real apps is being able to schedule things like reminders, app startup at phone load, etc. These things just aren't available in Gideros.
Sure, you could add them inside Android Studio but that would be more hassle than it would be worth.
I'd say go with Flutter, but I looked at it and its not overly easy to get your teeth into IMHO.
I've been having some success using NodeJS, Electron, and JavaScript to enable application creation where the app is basically a web page that has access to the local file system.
The screenshot is my own UI editor written using JavaScript, Electron, and NodeJS. It can be compiled to Windows exe and also Mac (but I haven't tried that yet).
JavaScript is a pretty easy language to learn and HTML5 + CSS3 give you excellent UI creation options (although I hate both with a passion LOL).
One other thing is to think carefully about adopting google technologies because they are rather fond of just abandoning projects when they lose interest or they didn't get a big enough user-base... just be aware
@antix At first it didn't seemed so hard to use flutter (but I didn't digg to much into it to have a solid opinion about it). The part about Google abandoning their projects is a strong point to take in consideration. Maybe I go with Haxe and its stableUI library.
Thank you.
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But how hard and time consuming would it be to create all components yourself?
I think it does not worth the effort. After all, I don't want to make components. I want to make an app.
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Every programmer, when developing their own components, uses them repeatedly in different projects - and not difficult to do, this is great practice
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+ SinisterSoft ...
+ https://wiki.giderosmobile.com/index.php/AlertDialog
+ https://wiki.giderosmobile.com/index.php/Media
+ ...
It may depend of what you need. Flutter does not export to desktop yet but when it does it should be very nice too.
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Many years ago I had to make scrolling lists, text input boxes, check boxes and so on for a J2ME product in the enterprise I worked for.
At the time it was a good experience but now
(15 years later) I don't want to do it again. I just want to use components. I'm getting older and lazy.
Regards.
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http://forum.giderosmobile.com/discussion/6651/layout-gideros-gui-framework/p1
>Is it a good idea to create non-gaming apps using Gideros?
I guess it depends on your apps.
If you need some specific native android stuff that isn't implemented in Gideros, you should definitely use Android Studio (or Flutter, or React Native, or whatever, if they have this stuff)
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“The more you do coding stuff, the better you get at it.” - Aristotle (322 BC)
However yes, UI
suckstakes a lot of efforts currently in Gideros, and I wish we could have some UI builder tool (like JFormDesigner I still use for Desktop Java). I have been working on a Widget kit for Gideros for some time now. It works, but I am not ready yet to share it, because I still refactor the code a lot.I'd like to make a demo app for it, like a widget showcase, before releasing it.
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It's interesting how many new things I'm learning about Gideros.
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i do need from time to time platform-specific (desktop) extra features but so far most of the time i could arrange it with @hgy29 to implement them for a fair donation.
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Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game
Again I had to change a few things with the code to make it work, that's for this kind of reason that I am not ready to release it. Plus it appears to be rather slow on Html, not sure why yet.
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I like the code, its a lot more cleaner than mine ))
P.S. layout still doesnt work with sprites?)
P.P.S. I used FireFox, cuz chrome gives me error ("Your browser's WebGL doesn't support this app").