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Recently there has been talk about Android on Netbooks. One of the reasosn why I am being so particular on the release of AndCooper Android Applicatiosn Build system is that is has to support multiple development modes in java development such as possibly google gears and etc. let me explain.
Microsoft's apporach to netbooks has been oh lets run native applications on the mobiel OS and mobiel processor. That is not the Android strategy. The Android strategy is cloud based or in other words java appplications plus hybrid java applications where the cloud is accessed via google gears or etc Even in not connected mode its access the stuff google gears downloaded so thatyo can access and cahgne fo example google docs.
A hybrid mobile application say a RIA with offline access such as the Google Gears does nto nee dthe same real heavy requirement sthat a Mcirosoft Office desktop application has and thus is perfect for the netBook model where the netbook is subsidized by mobile operators that want cusotmers to have mobile broadband.
However, Google Gears in non webView Andorid application is not the only use case. How about those webview applications? Well, yes webvie acces to Google Gears is turned off, however have you considered the power of the GWT compiler? View this talk, you can use GWT compiler as the css/js code optimizer for webview applications.
The reason Motorola and other OEMs have not seen this yet, is because I have been quite about it as I needed a build tool developed in a certain way to provide the code analysis hooks so that I could develop two webview demos one withoutusing GWT and one using GWT to demo its full glory. Because one cannot predict what changes in workflow will provide the next agile methods for hybrid webview webkit Android applications the AndCooper while it has a focus on webview applications has a deeper code analysis basis os that its flexible enough that you could use it to prove the valeu of a new dev approach as you would have the statistics through code analaysis and etc to prove the new approach.
I wonder what happens when the OEMs figure out that Android WebView applications can be optimized using the GWT compiler?
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