Genuitec takes Eclipse to mobile
April 7, 2009 —
Despite a past grounded firmly in the desktop, Genuitec, the makers of MyEclipse, is focusing on the mobile world for its future. To that end, the company has released a mobile development suite based on Eclipse, and it hopes to parlay what it learns from the project into a new open-source effort within the Eclipse Foundation.
Wayne Parrot, vice president of product development at Genuitec, said that Mobile Web Studio will be a singular place to design native-feeling Web applications for mobile platforms. Parrot said a milestone release of Mobile Web Studio will be available this month, and that the 1.0 release should be out in June.
Parrot said that for a mobile application, “to be native is to have a really crisp look and feel. There are a lot of native applications [on the iPhone] that I believe could be built and delivered as Web applications, and they would be just as compelling."
For this reason, Mobile Web Studio will target multiple mobile Web platforms, and not just the iPhone. Though Apple's phone will play heavily into the development environment, Parrot said that developing Web applications for mobile devices sidesteps the existing difficulties of maintaining separate codebases per device.
The Eclipse Foundation will soon see the fruits of Mobile Web Studio's development effort. Genuitec has signed on to head up project Blinky, an open-source mobile development environment focusing on the Web, as well.
“Mobile Web Studio is a prototype for what Blinky will be,” said Parrot. He said that Blinky will “be the benefactor of the technology we're learning about in Mobile Web Studio.” Key to that next project, he said, will be Genuitec's efforts to integrate SWT and Webkit.
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