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Chrome 19 on Win 7 for me.

Also the Element window gets stuck on my cursor when I try to scroll through it.

Really looks great though.


Thanks :).

Ah, ok. Will fix the stuck issue. That's a nasty one.


Do trigger.io apps have the same speed/responsiveness issues that people usually experience with PhoneGap?


You have to write your apps in the right way for mobile and we've blogged about ways to do that:

http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blo...

We've also done benchmarks of our native bridge vs phonegap showing it to be 5x faster on Android:

http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blo...


To me this makes the case for using a cross platform framework for mobile games, such as Gideros, Moai etc. If you can achieve 2x revenue with 1.2x effort it definitely seems worthwhile.


I'm using MOAI and it just plain rocks. There is no greater joy, after 3 years of platform-specific development, than having a single codebase to deploy on both iOS and Android platforms. It just makes sense.


I'm investigating Moai now. Do you have conditional code or different resources optimized for iOS and Android? Or can you build packages for both platforms with a one push of the button?


There is very little conditional code in the Lua sources, we do set a different theme as needed for Retina though, and yes .. at this point, we're building the MOAI host and integrating sources essentially at the push of a button - our buildserver checks out the Lua project, bundles it into .apk / .ipa files, and off it goes. It really is genius.

We've had to extend the host a bit, too. Its not too hard to do that, and in fact the point is that if you've implemented a certain feature natively, already, for either Android or iOS targets, then you can easily do the same for the MOAI host and then expose it to the Lua VM layer for ease of development within the Lua-side of the MOAI framework. I think this is a really nice, comfortable way to solve the platform issues - at least, for certain classes of application. It remains to be seen, yet, whether MOAI can do utility apps or is relegated to a game eco-system, but in fact there are interesting developments occurring in the realm of using MOAI for GUI-style development. This is really exciting.


I've got friends who swear by Unity for this reason.


I would also love to get into this. I am teaching myself programming but I'm far off from making a career out of it.

I believe I can usually communicate well with programmers, but is there anything else I can do to make myself qualified for this type of job?

Also, are there any recommended sites or places to look for these types of job postings besides the 99tests one mentioned? Thank you.


Also, as runamok mentioned above, there's http://www.usertesting.com/be-a-user-tester


There's also uTest - http://www.utest.com


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