Thinking out loud

[J. Landman Gay]

Android apps run on Chromebooks and I have several installed, including 3 
of my own. There are a few glitches when rotating to tablet mode on 
Chromebooks that support that feature but in general they work pretty well.

For you, that would be the easiest way forward. The main problem is that 
apps outside the Play Store can't be installed on Chromebooks without 
booting into developer mode and that isn't an option for students. On the 
other hand, getting your app into the Google Play Store is far easier than 
Apple makes it.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On January 14, 2022 12:20:14 PM William Prothero via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Folks:
> Just thinking out loud.
>
> My hobby and gift to pay back all of the money I got from the National 
> Science Foundation over my career, is to program and make educational 
> applications about Earth Science. I’m finding, tho, that for younger kids, 
> Chromebooks are mostly used. So, tapping into the vast experience of 
> livecode users on this list, what advice would you give me? Livecode on the 
> web? Google Classroom dev in Python?  Is the web deployment of the livecode 
> server getting to a place where it is actually practical in comparison to 
> other solutions?
>
> My son is a 5’th grade teacher. He uses Google Classroom a lot. I would 
> want apps I develop to work in that environment too. Or … function in a web 
> browser. I see that LiveCode 10 versions are supporting webASM. It also 
> looks like a direction I could go.
>
> The reason I’m favoring apps that work in a browser is then I don’t have to 
> worry about the app stores and my work would/should run on different machines.
>
> So, I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions you might have. I’ve 
> programmed in numerous languages (but forgotten lots) and am not averse to 
> learning new ones (Javascript?).
>
> Best,
> Bill
>
>
> William Prothero
> waprothero at gmail.com
> https://earthlearningsolutions.org
>
>
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