Phonegap introduction, Community Day 2011

PhonegapAn introduction by Björn Söderqvist, tap5.com

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EVE Online• Merchants buy and sell• There’s not an app for that• “I need to make an app!”

EVE Wallet

Options• Native (Cocoa, Obj-C for me)• Appcelerator Titanium• Phonegap

Native• + Great speed• - Steep learning curve (for a web dev)

Titanium• + Native components• + Both Android and iPhone• - I had provisioning and SCM problems• - Home-made API• - Compiles JS, did not always work for me

Enter Phonegap• Write as you do for the web• HTML5+CSS3 FTW• Web standards!• Device API ahead of the browsers• iOS, Android, Symbian, WP7, Blackberry, WebOS• - Not Native

App or webapp?• Technically, Phonegap opens a browser• + You get extra API goodies• + You can sell it

Polyﬁlling the web• Implementing W3C’s device API• -but Phonegap has an express goal to cease to exist!

Test code: Color Clock • Basic code with a little CSS3 • Colors! • (under 1K!)https://github.com/cybear/HTML5-Color-Clock

Installing Phonegap• Visit www.phonegap.com• Download latest• See Getting started guide

GUI frameworks• JQuery Mobile (in Alpha)• Sencha Touch• Dojo Mobile (0.2)• or roll your own!• jQuery UI is for keyboard and mouse

(Demo time and Q’s)

Phonegap introduction, Community Day 2011

by Björn Söderqvist

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