>>>I did have a quick look at Servoy, which implies it can compile to Windows/Android but at $5,000 a year per server I don't see how we can migrate our clients and still make money.
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>>>Any advice gratefully received!
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>>Does the client have a website?
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>>What kind of hosting plan?
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>>Usually if they have a website they have a company that is hosting it on a Linux server, which usually already has PHP and MySQL available.
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>>Net cost so far: $0
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>>If you can, do it all in PHP and MySQL. Then you'll support any OS and device.
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>>If the requirements state that the app must work on the Android device even when the internet can't be reached, then download Android SDK and IntelliJ. It's not very hard to write apps that can consume PHP pages serving up data from MySQL.
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>>Net cost so far: $0
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>>If you've spent some time learning C# that'll be handy because C# is a Java rip off and the Android SDK is written in Java.
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>Java ripoff, that's putting it a little strongly.


Riiight. Microsoft coincidentally happened to develop a language that looked and worked just like Java while most developers were moving to Java.


> Wasn't Java a C/C++ ripoff?

They're both C style languages.