Re: o dig up an old question.....any chance of an Android port?

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From: Charles <charles_at_...>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:51:59 -0000

I know this, as mentioned I have written this kind of thing recently. And this is _exactly_ why protecting the revenue with a HTML5 packaged app becomes an issue.

Spend a moment to think about why, and why this is not an issue for Google and for Facebook.

If all of the text, all of the pictures and all of the logic are packaged as a HTML5 app, then once anyone gets a copy on their disk, then they can just pass it to their friend, with no revenue for David. If David puts in a simple call home at startup then a) the app is not usable offline and b) it is still easy for crackers to work around.

> Once you have an app made in HTML5, it's just a matter of wrapping it in a browser package such that for the end user, it acts just like a native app.

> AFAIK Facebook and Google mobile apps are made just this way.