Hello,
First of all, I would like to apologize for any rudeness or bad feeling I could generate because, in my mind, I have no reason to. In fact, I would have used pink color and flowers and natural parfume to initiate that thread.
Secondly, my question will probably seem stupid because, it could be asked by someone who complains and, again, this is not the case, really. Not criticism in anyway ; I couldn't in regard of all the "best efforts" and work Erel and Anywhere Software provide.
OK, a large breeze, let's go : something I can not understand (we already talked in a somehow thread some years ago), is Anywhere Software's strategy. As I can feel it, it is more based on gaining new users than retaining the older.
When I discovered Basic4Android some years ago, the IDE was not as complete but not so far. Because I came from other products, I thought (I was wrong) that it was at its beginning and will be completed. But it appears that some tasks are still difficult to do (I feel it as code centric instead of user centric (I mean the IDE doesn't ease some tasks)).
Even more : some tasks rely on additional libraries some genius are providing (and not on official libraries). Sorry, I am probably wrong but, most companies sell add-ons, but not here.
In the same time, Anywhere Software releases free products. I don't judge, don't critique, I am nobody to be allowed to be able to judge a third party marketing strategy but don't the existing users pay for the free ones while we are waiting for improvements (if Google didn't change the way to use its services and if that was not a good occasion to make users renew their licences, would we have got the version 6 now).
Watching the promotional video where Erel shows the interaction between the different devices made me think : "Oh, Erel bought some new toys".
I came to Basic4Android because I was not in capacity to learn Java and still wondering why B4A IDE does not simple tasks like showing forms to choose colors and generate the necessary codes, manage links to libraries (for example to the new FireBase) and generate the necessary codes in the manifest, templates for Android Wear, or too much things I can not think about but what an IDE proposes. Other people are thinking to enhancements to the language itself. In fact, today, while I write, I see the current IDE as a tool, nothing more. Not something that eases my work ; I am probably too used to others or too old or too stupid (choose by yourself).
In the same time, if Anywhere Software sees B4X as a suite of IDE, it is strange that it relies on Windows only (even more because of Erel's high level especially in Java).
If I am a bit lost trying to understand the future and reason of the product (perhaps nothing more than a tool a genius liking coding and wanting to live from his work created), I am not a sissi girl so you can bite, burn, ban, delete the post if you want.
Regards,
Anne-Laure
Edit one day after (about the colors) : https://b4x.com/android/forum/threads/140-colors-hex-rgb.68187/#post-432247
First of all, I would like to apologize for any rudeness or bad feeling I could generate because, in my mind, I have no reason to. In fact, I would have used pink color and flowers and natural parfume to initiate that thread.
Secondly, my question will probably seem stupid because, it could be asked by someone who complains and, again, this is not the case, really. Not criticism in anyway ; I couldn't in regard of all the "best efforts" and work Erel and Anywhere Software provide.
OK, a large breeze, let's go : something I can not understand (we already talked in a somehow thread some years ago), is Anywhere Software's strategy. As I can feel it, it is more based on gaining new users than retaining the older.
When I discovered Basic4Android some years ago, the IDE was not as complete but not so far. Because I came from other products, I thought (I was wrong) that it was at its beginning and will be completed. But it appears that some tasks are still difficult to do (I feel it as code centric instead of user centric (I mean the IDE doesn't ease some tasks)).
Even more : some tasks rely on additional libraries some genius are providing (and not on official libraries). Sorry, I am probably wrong but, most companies sell add-ons, but not here.
In the same time, Anywhere Software releases free products. I don't judge, don't critique, I am nobody to be allowed to be able to judge a third party marketing strategy but don't the existing users pay for the free ones while we are waiting for improvements (if Google didn't change the way to use its services and if that was not a good occasion to make users renew their licences, would we have got the version 6 now).
Watching the promotional video where Erel shows the interaction between the different devices made me think : "Oh, Erel bought some new toys".
I came to Basic4Android because I was not in capacity to learn Java and still wondering why B4A IDE does not simple tasks like showing forms to choose colors and generate the necessary codes, manage links to libraries (for example to the new FireBase) and generate the necessary codes in the manifest, templates for Android Wear, or too much things I can not think about but what an IDE proposes. Other people are thinking to enhancements to the language itself. In fact, today, while I write, I see the current IDE as a tool, nothing more. Not something that eases my work ; I am probably too used to others or too old or too stupid (choose by yourself).
In the same time, if Anywhere Software sees B4X as a suite of IDE, it is strange that it relies on Windows only (even more because of Erel's high level especially in Java).
If I am a bit lost trying to understand the future and reason of the product (perhaps nothing more than a tool a genius liking coding and wanting to live from his work created), I am not a sissi girl so you can bite, burn, ban, delete the post if you want.
Regards,
Anne-Laure
Edit one day after (about the colors) : https://b4x.com/android/forum/threads/140-colors-hex-rgb.68187/#post-432247
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