OT: Wanted: Android App Developer $??? Reward ...

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I've looked at it several times.  Each time the price goes up.  $4,150 
is a little pricey for me.



On 2014-08-04 13:35, David Schwartz wrote:
> Delphi is just as easy to use as VB, if not easier.
> 
> Have you looked at it lately?
> 
> It’s just not considered “mainstream” any longer.
> 
> People say, “Oh, is THAT still around?”
> 
> Yup. Check it out.
> 
> http://embarcadero.com
> 
> They also have a tool they now call HTML5Builder or something along
> that line, which is an allusion to their C++ Builder app — a C++
> version of Delphi.  HTML5Builder is a PHP/HTML5 version.
> 
> -David "The Tool Wiz" Schwartz
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 4, 2014, at 11:40 AM, techlists at phpcoderusa.com wrote:
> 
>> On 2014-08-04 10:57, David Schwartz wrote:
>> 
>>> Now we’ve got a new language: Apple introduced Swift and is making it
>>> available for free, like their other tools. This is going to 
>>> stimulate
>>> a whole new generation of devleopers to jump into the fray and start
>>> building apps for iOS — apps that are going to be hard to “port” over
>>> to Android platforms, or even web platforms.
>>> I’ve talked with Joe about his app. To his credit, he’s focused 
>>> mainly
>>> on the app. But what he’s missed is the fact that, IMHO, he’s
>>> over-spec’ed it to the point where you'd need so much custom code to
>>> impement what appears to be a simple tool that he’ll never be happy
>>> with the end result. His UI design makes assumptions based on HIS
>>> experience with *nix shell scripting, and he clearly explains this in
>>> the spec. There are no native widgets that work like “grep” in the
>>> Android world!  So he’ll be extremely hard-pressed to find anybody
>>> who’ll build it for him within the budget he’s demanding.
>>> I’ve worked with something called Delphi since Borland introduced it
>>> in 1995. Starting with the XE2 release a few years back, they’ve been
>>> embracing a multi-platform targeting strategy where you can develop
>>> apps in one language that will run on any of the popular platforms:
>>> Windows, OS X, iOS, and Android. And it actually WORKS!
>> 
>> This is what we need - build once run everywhere.  I personally think 
>> web development is way behind in they types of tools we have.  I often 
>> wonder why we do not have something like VB that is drag and drop.  
>> Instead we build everything every time.  The web dev model is very 
>> expensive.
>> 
> 
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