Converting rails application to mobile application

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

I am having full fledged working website using rails framework. It is responsive also. But now I want mobile application of the same with some less features. Now I have done Rnd and found that there are 2 ways or 2 Platforms.

  1. Cordova

  2. Android Studio

Now I am not able to select which will be better and how I proceed converting rails application to mobile application.

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Hi,

I am having full fledged working website using rails framework. It is responsive also. But now I want mobile application of the same with some less features. Now I have done Rnd and found that there are 2 ways or 2 Platforms. 1) Cordova 2) Android Studio

Now I am not able to select which will be better and how I proceed converting rails application to mobile application.

Do you mean that you want to keep the web server doing the work, with an app running on a mobile device interfacing with it?

Colin

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Yes Exactly i want to have interface in mobile also in app format with no changes at the server end.

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Yes Exactly i want to have interface in mobile also in app format with no changes at the server end.

So that means you do not wish to convert the rails app to a mobile app, you just want to provide an additional interface to the rails app that you can access from the mobile device. Usually this would be done by using a JSON api in the app, which you access from the mobile app.

Colin

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Can you please elaborate this how to create json api. And will it look like application which is built using android studio. I am novice in apps so might be asking silly questions. But can you please tell me something more about this. I have thought 1 way using cordova in which I will transfer data using ajax that is using json only , are you suggesting this thing only??

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Can you please elaborate this how to create json api. And will it look like application which is built using android studio. I am novice in apps so might be asking silly questions. But can you please tell me something more about this. I have thought 1 way using cordova in which I will transfer data using ajax that is using json only , are you suggesting this thing only??

You can just add format.json do in the respond_to block and render the json that you want. I am sure google will easily find loads of stuff on adding a json api to a rails app.

As for developing android apps this is not the right list, as that is nothing to do with rails. In your case it just happens that the server api is being provided by a rails app, that is of little relevance to the mobile app.

Of course the simplest solution is just to provide pages specifically designed for mobile devices in your rails app and view them in the browser on the mobile device.

Colin