GWT for mobile.

[svkirans]

Hi,

We are planning to use GWT as UI framework on top of Spring for our
large enterprise application which needs to run in an heterogeneous
environment. We want the application to run on IE 7, IE 8, IE 9,
Mozilla , Safari and chrome in different Operating Systems like
Windows and Mac.

GWT already proved to be good choice for cross browser desktop
applications and so we are ready to start using it.

But we are in dilemma about its capability to support browsers in
mobile devices of Android and i-OS. I know there is mobile version of
GWT, but that requires large amount of re-implementing the
application.

We want to reuse the same service for both the desktop and mobile
clients. I know there will be some price to pay in terms of GUI and
performance on mobile apps, but in short term until we get a a mobile
version native apps ready we are prepared to use the application in
browsers of the mobiles.

Please suggest if GWT can achieve this or is there scope for bigger
issues.

Thanks in advance.

[Alfredo Quiroga-Villamil]

During the past few months I've seen a few projects that look promising in this area. All of which are using GWT. You can take a look at:

http://code.google.com/p/mgwt/

http://nextinterfaces.com/

http://www.emitrom.com/gwt4touch

With all of these I believe if I am not mistaken that you will be able to use the existing back-end services and even share models that are used in both Server and the UI.

There are probably others so look around to see which one better matches what you need.

Best of luck.

Alfredo

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[koma]

Been using MGWT and works great for Android and iPhone.

gwt4touch seems to be locked in with Sencha.

[David Vree]

Why is there a concern about running in a mobile browser.  I was under the impression that GWT apps would run in a mobile browser.

I understand Google Groups is written in GWT and it looks and runs extremely well on my Android phone.

[Thomas Broyer]

Absolutely, and the MobileWebApp sample from the GWT SDK is a good example of how to provide 3 distinct UIs (desktop, tablet and phone) for the same app.