Facebook application using Matlab

Can I develop a facebook application using MATLAB and Simulink? I was wondering if any very good mobile application is built on MATLAB rather than java or any other. If any one has tried, I will be glad to you if u share ur experience. I want to develop such applications but have little idea on how to start with?....help plz.....

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

MATLAB is not supported on any of the mobile operating systems. In order to deploy to one of them, you would need to generate Java or .NET or C/C++.

[Yella]

I dont find much difference between C/C++ and MATLAB. Could you explain me why mobile operating systems cant support MATLAB? If it can be implemented then it would much helpful to MATLAB coders....

[Walter Roberson]

MATLAB is an interpreted language, not a compiled language. The "compiler" generates files of threaded data structures that are interpreted at run time. The run-time library to support that is about 700 megabytes -- which includes, for example, all of the support for graphics.

This distinction between compiled and interpreted is important because the iPad, for example, has only 256 megabytes of RAM, and the iPad 2 seems to have 512 megabytes of RAM. Even when Mathworks was starting out on PCs, the minimum memory for the original MATLAB was 384 megabytes.

[Wong Cao]

can i develop facebook application by using Matlab on Facebook website only. (not for mobile operating system)

[Walter Roberson]

I have not looked into how Facebook applications work.

Looking at some documents now, it appears to me that it might be possible using the Java Builder tool.

Answer 2

[Wong Cao]

how?