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So you want to connect the app directly to the database and do sql transactions directly from the app?
I don't support that! -
Zenith78yBecause here's the thing, if I have to write 90% of a web app anyway, why not do 100%, point a browser at it, and call it a day? Why fight the Android build tools and App Store at all? Why not direct people who want a rich experience to a Windows device where those problems are already solved?
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@Zenith You are the missing the point of native apps and why they exist.I cant explain that but imma give this illustration.
What you you are saying is similar to = we get rid of all of your PC apps and replace them with webapps inside web browsers because it's harder to write native PC apps.Doesnt seem logical -
Zenith78y@bdhobare
Except that Android has practically no features and is thus reduced to being a dumb terminal for websites. There is hard (calculus) and then there is Android hard (kill yourself in a rubber room while wearing a straight-jacket). It's just incredible to me that this crippled platform took off while the infinitely more capable Windows mobile is considered stillborn. -
@Zenith it's because Microsoft was involved, and was involved late. By the time they existed, people had already chosen
It's 2016 and Android still doesn't support ODBC (let alone OLEDB). Every time somebody asks how to connect their app to a database directly, the groupthink brigade goes "dur hur, use JSON/SOAP/XML services cuz raisins!1one*." That wasn't the fucking question. I don't want your framework-cobbling make-work dependencies. Even the cretins at Xamarin, trying desperately to hook Windows C# programmers, only have SQL Server support because Microsoft fucking did it for them. WTF have Android developers done over 7 OS versions if basic features like database access are still fucking missing? No wonder the App Stores are full of Mickey Mouse garbage.
*raisins!1one = "I don't know how to secure a database so I'll just yell 'security!1one' so people think I r smrt"
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