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Exploring the Possibilities of Standalone App for use in Micro-Econ Program in Bangladesh.
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I see the problem would be creating the UI since Pythonista doesn't provide API to use standard iOS' UI widgets.
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Thanks so much for your initial answer and the subsequent comment. I think at this point I will have to play around with pythonista for a few days, just to get a feel for what I am doing.
If either of the users who replied to this wish to elaborate on exactly what bee's comment means for me, and the availability of Hydrogen, that would be much appreciated. I am still learning the basic way to talk about applications.
rory
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bee's comment means that Pythonista's graphics modules (see: scene and canvas) do not provide access to the native iOS graphical user interface elements such as buttons, lists, menus, etc. My reply to his comment means that enterprising developers like bashedcrab have gotten beyond this limitation and created graphical user interface elements in Python that could deliver the required functionality. The Python source code for Hydrogen can be accessed from bashedcrab's GitHub site: https://gist.github.com/BashedCrab
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I haven't tried Hydrogen. I believe it's a good UI framework. But is it complete? Does it have grid, for example? How does the look-and-feel compare to the native UI? Is it well tested? Is it still actively developed? To whom may I ask for support? How about the license? Etc, etc…
Maybe it's alright if you build a small custom application with minimal technical support. But if I need to build a serious enterprise application, I don't want to spend most of the development time to write custom UI codes. I want a reliable and well tested UI framework and it's nothing else but the native UI of the OS.
But I don't know the scale of the app rcreedon want to build. Maybe Hydrogen is good enough, or maybe not. Only rcreedon knows the answer. :)
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So I don't think what I am doing is a 'serious enterprise application' which is good news. I run various projects for a research institute based at yale university out here in the wilds of Dhaka, and the teams are small. The problem is I am a social scientist not a computer scientist. I am a total noob at anything other than data management.
So, I'm not sure how much you guys are into helping me, but I have started to write what seems to me to be the beginnings of the application. I have played around in Pythonista and mostly found it baffling. I have therefore more or less resorted to pseudo-code in an attempt to think through what I want to do, and to work out if it is achievable.
I have only really touched on the very beginnings, for example I have not yet created the data containers. I have paused because I think the usefulness of doing this is somewhat unclear, so I wanted to get some feedback. If this psuedo-code approach is so useless as to be, well, useless, then I shall not bother and I will try a more ground up approach to learning Pythonista, if it is useful to describe what I am trying to do, and if I am able to get feedback on that, then I shall continue.
Totally understand if this is too much to ask a forum, but as ever any help at all will be gratefully received....
Link to gist here:
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Actually you know what, I can do better than that. I am having difficulty with the scene module, but I can write this to be more meaningful with console I think, and then possibly transfer the ideas across....
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Hey guys,
Sorry for the s#!t post earlier. I had a rethink and developed a better structure using console. I think this gives a much better idea of the sort of thing I am doing. Ultimately I could live with doing this in the console, but really to make this look like a real app rather than a computer dialogue would be much nicer.
Any hints/tips/collaborations welcome :-)
Thanks
Gist link:
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I added some questions in the gist comments.
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Thanks so much. I am going to work on this today. I have added some comments/clarifications. I guess at the risk of overloading this forum with useless info we can move our discussion there. Alternatively my email is *** If you let me know once you have read this I will delete the post to avoid python spam ;-)