MoSync experiences

Question

Does anybody have experiences from cross platform mobile app development framework MoSync?
It sounds very good and promises much. But does it deliver?

Donica

The only problem is that it's not available for Linux platform users. – Laughlin

Answer 1

We have used MoSync for 8 months now and I have a good feeling about it. It is still magic to me that you code in C++ and out comes a jar-file or whatever platform you choose. It is great for application development but I wouldn't recommend it for gaming with advanced graphics. It seems too slow for that on Symbian.

The APIs are very easy and I learned it very fast. And I have the freedom to do whatever components I want thanks to the MAUI framework and using widgets with skins. You can really make an application look very nice.

It is great for me as a developer that I can support so many phones and platforms. I can also do specific behavior and include/exclude functionality based on the phones capabilities.

When it comes to deployment I end up with hundreds of binaries for every device and I have to take care of them my self. To put them on a web server somewhere and make sure that every user get the correct binary when they try to download the app. I wished that they had some kind of app-store so they could host the apps.

MoSync still have a bit to go until it is working properly. There is no guaranty that an application that is build for a specific device actually works on that device. But I'm sure that they will reach there very soon. And when they do... I simply just need to rebuild my app with the SDK (I think).

Casa

"It seems too slow for that on Symbian": I don't doubt that, but just to balance that comment a bit, according to a simple test of an evaulation app the MoSync version launched really fasy compared to other cross-platform development frameworks. Not sure how good of a measure that is though? See ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6178193 – Snore

Answer 2

Have you seen Mosync 2.6, I think this solves most of the problems you mentioned, the feature list is at:

http://www.mosync.com/documentation/manualpages/whats-new-mosync-26-pyramid

I personally I'm quite excited about the whole HTML 5 integration, it sort of blurs the line between native and web app.

Hope this Helps

Tony

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