Prototype Android apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript

  • It looks like this will be the first sceptical comment... ;)

    I didn't try Fries, but I tried using PhoneGap for prototyping and found that building such a web app is not much faster than building one in XCode (and I was a web developer for nearly 15 years!). So why bother?

    Another problem is that if I want to build prototype in your framework, I must learn its conventions (what was that CSS class again, "buttonnormal" or "button-normal"? Since the web frameworks can't really compete with native apps in terms of user experience (behaviour of UI elements differs from what user expects), I will have to build in Objective C - which means I have to learn both iOS programming AND your framework.

    Granted, such a tool would be useful if UX team wants to build prototypes and they only have web knowledge - and you have a separate team for building a final (native) version. Other than that I fail to see a point.

    I would love to be proven wrong though. :)

    BTW, my comment doesn't apply to Titanium which basically produces a native app (but I don't use it for other reasons).

  • Pretty cool ... reminds me of ratchet http://maker.github.io/ratchet/

    Why would you use that only for prototyping and not in production?

  • Prototyping them in the IDE is pretty damn easy tbh..and you've done some of the work to build them.

  • How is it different from using jQuery Mobile with phonegap(cordova) ,just curious.

  • Updated the docs! http://jaunesarmiento.me/fries

  • A visual demo would be nice too.

    (If its there,via didn't see it on nexus7 4.2