Maybe with Steve Jobs gone Apple will become less strident about closed hardware and software.

>Rick, WinDev from PCSoft allows programming for all platforms in a single IDE and language model. Not every function is supported or applicable on every platform, obviously, but you learn one language and you can deploy for Windows, Linux, Android, other mobile devices, etc. I believe iPhone is in the works perhaps even for next release, but not 100% sure. And you can integrate other languages into the same application.
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>>Multi-device development today is a pain in the ass. Native development for iOS, Android, Windows Phone all require separate platforms (Objective C, Java, .NET respectively). Regardless of what you choose if you develop for more than one platform you may have to do something different.
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>>There are options for .NET and device development. Mono/Xamarin is popular and their doing good work, but it's a secondary technology built ontop of the native stacks. It works but it's usually not 100% access to features.
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>>There are also more and more HTML based solutions cropping up like PhoneGap and Titanium that allow you build your UI with HTML then wrap the application into a browser control and compile it natively for the device. These tools provide a generic abstraction layer across devices and you can reuse most of your code as long as you use the features that work across devices. It works (built a couple of prototypes for a client last month) but the apps still feel different than true native apps.
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>>I think in the not too distant future though this will become the dominant development model though. Developers and companies don't have the resources to build for all these different device platforms and there's a lot of clamoring going on to build standard UIs that work across platforms. At the very least with HTML5 you may be able to build some fairly compelling touch enabled apps that can be accessed from device small format browsers and that works today!
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>>+++ Rick ---
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>>>I know people ask over and over again and I think I have even asked the question before but "if not VFP then what" ?
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>>>We decided to go .Net and SQL server, therefore I have been learning C# and we have been planning to move our application to .Net C# starting next month however...
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>>>1. I have seen posts across the Internet that imply .Net is no longer Microsoft's favourite child and might go the way of VFP?
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>>>2. I have just been told that one of our applications will needs to run on Android in the not too distant future! do I now port to .Net and then need to port again? or is there something usable now that we can port to and compile for both Windows and Android?
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>>>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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>>>Gary.