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I've been testing a few apps with Andromo online builder. It does let you build easily an Android App, when using static content. I also tried using dynamic content importing webpages from an external source and it works fine too. But, lacking the possibility to use cookies or to write anything locally on the mobile device, the users can't keep passwords or "save" data in the app - which is a limit.
But for quick info displaying apps, I find it very useful.
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I don't write mobile apps but I do know about Xamarin and try to made "Hello world!" for my Android phone
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There is too little information to appropriately respond to this. Here are some questions I would ask before rendering an answer:
- Is this supposed to be for Android, iPhone, or both?
- What functionality is required?
- Would the interface strictly be for mobile or would it eventually be available through other means, like Windows or Linux?
- What would be the projected life of the project?
- Would new features be added?
- Will this be written and passed off to someone else to maintain and what are their capabilities?
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I would make a web app and perhaps build with Twitter Bootstrap as framework and use the Google development tools.
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For bus apps - Angular/Cordova, for fun cocos2dx
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I am currently using Kivy (a Python UI library) on Raspberry Pi for several embedded projects. If I needed a mobile app related to those devices, I would seriously consider using Buildozer to package up a version of the embedded app, since the UI code would probably not change much.
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Especially if you need it to talk to a server backend.
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But if the opportunity presented itself, it might be fun, given the right leadership.
I helped out on a mobile app a few years back, but I can't remember the platform. The decision was made to go with Windows Phone  because we were a windows shop, but I can't remember if it was some native stuff.
Anyway, I was just helping here & there, so never got truly into it. I do remember the markup being very clumsy and hard for me to get used to. But, that could've been just inexperience too.
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I might steer toward progressive web app or just a web page
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Am just about to do this for a client. They asked for a webpage (actually a page within a Wordpress site) which I delivered; THEN they asked for it to run as a standalone app on "all" mobile devices. Adding the extras to make it into a progressive web app seems the simplest solution with no rewriting of existing code required.
If it goes well I might write it up as an article here...
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Completely argree. PWA is the way to at this point
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I am interested in understanding how are you doing this.
What exactly do you mean by progressive web app?
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This[^] gives a good explanation of what it is and how to build one. Not followed through the steps yet but looks manageable and hopefully meets my needs...
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I started testing with UWP because some of its features suited for the desktop and I found that the same code and design with little adaptation code also worked in the now discontinued Microsoft Phone.
And I've been lucky, because thanks to the UNO Platform, now I can share the same UWP code and design for several Mobile and Desktop platforms including WebAssembly.
Sorry for my bad English
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However, it all depends on the target.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I've written exactly three apps, the last in 2015. Not really a part of our business plan. Since I usually code in C++ Java was simple enough and Studio replaced Eclipse while I was writing the first one. Our usual software has to run inside AutoCAD so phones are a foreign land that I have only visited.
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As the subject says, I don't get to have an opinion. I would have to make do with whatever language I am assigned.
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I have been using Flutter for a few of my apps and it provides a great experience. Dart turned out to be a great language, and for those who have Java or C# experience, language has similar constructs.
Flutter itself is a good tool and similar to React Native, but with Dart as the programming language.
Not sure about others, but I like the way views and business logic are made available in one place, unlike with native tools where an XML file is to be used with a back-end programming language. Overall, I would give it a good rating and a recommendation to be at least considered for a development trial.
As for the survey: I would develop with any tool and every tool as long as it does not use a WebView to render my apps, the app should be native.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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With a web app, you can support not only mobile, but any device. I would use a local db for local state and MongoDb on the server (it's works great as long as you know what you are doing...including security).
I have written mobile apps before...after doing so, I got rid of my cell phone.
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I had, at one time, interviewed for a position developing X-Ray Proof and Laser Proof nose cones for ICBM's . I was willing to do that as I expected they'd not be used (unlike, say, a Bouncing Betty, which would be used to kill and maim).
HOWEVER,
Making an application for a Mobile device? There are limits as to how far I could stretch my moral core and contribute to the demise of the species.
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B4X, although it's not really what I would like to use but as targeting Android is an eternal elusive target it'll have to do.
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Is BASIC the only language it supports? 
(I did look at their site, gave it 30 seconds, but couldn't find a link within that 30 seconds that told me anything useful.)
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Hmm, something is rotten in Denmark as my reply disappeared :-/
Yes -- I'm sort of used to the stench maintaining an 20 years old VB6 program ...
It does "compile" to java, so you should be able to insert hooks to use ABI.
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