While I have been involved with moving some of the medical utilities I have previously coded with Ares for webOS over to Web apps and also lately native Android apps with Phonegap, I have not shared the details on how I have done so.
Most of the webOS apps I created have been using Ares as it is really easy with a drag and drop graphical IDE which runs in Chrome or Firefox browser.
Mike Wardo over at webOSNation, like many webOS users, has since moved over to Android. Mike was one of the early webOS adopters and I created a webOS app for him called Cranio which help calculate Cephalic Ratio and Cranial Vault Asymmetry Index – something which might be useful if you are a Prosthetist or Orthotist. Mike recently contacted me if I would port this to Android, and I agreed (time permitting) but I thought it would be a great idea to share the mechanism with readers of this blog.
Requirements:
1. Windows PC
2. NSB App studio ($99 but comes with a free trial)
3. Some knowledge of Basic and Javascript
This is the original Cranio App hosted in webOSNation. It is a simple app with the main screen with a List to select one of two modules.
I couldn’t quite recollect the app so I had to download it and run it in the webOS emulator and re-examine the Javascript code in the original app.
… to be continued
from the Palmdoc Chronicles
Porting a webOS app to Android (I)
