[Lazarus] Qt5 plans available

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 12 May 2011, zeljko wrote:

> On Thursday 12 of May 2011 12:14:50 michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 May 2011, Michael Schnell wrote:
>>> On 05/12/2011 11:11 AM, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
>>>> Hence the conclusion: a web application is probably the best way to go
>>>> when developing business apps for the mobile.
>>>
>>> Do you mean: Using Android's  browser as a GUI and have it connect to a
>>> server done with FPC and running as a daemon in the background and
>>> accessed as http://127.0.0.1:12345 ?
>>>
>>> This is quite similar (but less powerful and maybe easier to do <for
>>> simple stuff>) than the "ifi" way.
>>
>> I would not do it locally.
>>
>> In my line of work, there *always* is a central database.
>>
>> So:
>> No access to the database (i.e. internet access) -> no functionality.
>>
>> In such a scenario, a web app makes perfect sense.
>> And it solves the "which device to support" question as well...
>
> IMO, better solution in such scenario would be to use web server than direct
> SQL database access, since link can be broken at anytime, and app will hang,
> but if it is web based product, web browser should say that web page is
> currently not available.

That is exactly the design I am advocating ? (see 'Web app' ?)
The web server is hosted by us (database resides on our servers as well), 
and the mobile just connects to the webserver.

> So, I think that such concept of bussiness application on phone isn't good ...
> we are already moving to web concept.

My idea 100% !

Michael.