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This is looking really interesting. I'm a web developer and dabbled with Phonegap/Appcelerator before - would happily trade complexity for simple command line tools and speed. Being able to output browser plugins from the same code is a nice extra too.

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Thanks! Yep, we see good command-line tools as being the best substrate to build on: even if we did support every platform, people are going to want to run scheduled builds and so on.

We actually find ourselves developing as Chrome extensions for the first few iterations, purely because the debugging tools there are great. After that, it's an easy switch into a mobile app, using our Catalyst debugging tool.

Just out of curiosity, what is it that you think is complex using phonegap build? I've used it before and I thought it was very simple. I was even able to walk our receptionist over the phone on how to generate new build for android from our ios build using phonegap build. Thanks. I am also interested in using command line tools though. Thanks.

Ditto here. However, I'd be interested to know whether this follows the PhoneGap approach with iOS of essentially using webkit to dump your content into, or the Titanium approach of actually generating Objective-C...

Architecturally, we're more similar to PhoneGap than Appcelerator: we do use the native WebView as a container for the app.

There's a million things to talk about and this margin is too narrow: I might do a deeper dive in a follow-up post...

10-4, thanks for the response. Congrats, and best of luck.

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