Can I use MoSync on Windows and Mac computers?

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14 December, 2011 - 00:27
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Thomas Jeffries
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Can I use MoSync on Windows and Mac computers?

The subject line has the whole question- this looks like a good solution for mobile devices, but I need to build an app that works on phones, tablets, and those old-fashioned big boxes usually called "computers".

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14 December, 2011 - 08:58
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Hi, the short answer is 'not really'. MoSync does come with its own emulator, MoRE, which is bundled with MoSync for Windows and Mac, to let you test code during development, but it looks like a phone and it isn't designed for redistribution.

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14 December, 2011 - 20:47
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Thanks. Too bad, it would be great to be able to build apps for all platforms with one toolset.

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31 January, 2012 - 07:47
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Sorry for my poor English :-)

I need MoSync apps also on desktop (or netbook) without microemulator ( J2ME) or another emulators.
In future it is possible? If yes - when?

Now i think maybe J2ME -> java decompiler -> J2EE compiler will work?
Or another way?

Thanks.

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31 January, 2012 - 09:32
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Hi, I think that building desktop apps is something which can be done in the near future, but not in MoSync 3.0. I think it would be relatively simple to produce HTML5 apps on desktop for instance, but there maybe prerequisites about which browsers are installed on the desktop.

J2ME -> java decompiler -> J2EE (or more likely J2SE) would be very painful. You can use the MicroEmulator (http://www.microemu.org/) as a target platform, which is a J2ME implementation on J2SE, so you can deploy it as a desktop app.

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31 January, 2012 - 21:16
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Sam, can you elaborate on HTML5 apps for the desktop?

I need to build applications that run on Win, Mac, and mobile platforms without a browser. I've been trying to figure out if HTML5 could do that but the answer is not yet clear- maybe that's because HTML5 is still being developed? My alternative is to build a mini-browser that doesn't look like a browser on each platform. We'll be using the web for data, but it has to look like an application running on each platform.

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