High performance Cross Platform PhoneGap application development framework is a perfect complement to Adobe’s broad family of developer solutions, and will allow all of us to continue to provide content publishers and developers with the best, cutting-edge solutions for creating innovative applications across platforms and devices.It is a real rapid application development tool.
Developing Phonegap apps are best suited for Enterprise apps and Enterprise mobile solutions
9. Challenges – Mobile App Dev
Windows 7
Fragmentation with many operating systems
10. Types of Mobile App Dev
• Native Mobile Apps
• Cross Platform Mobile Apps
• Hybrid partly Native partly Cross Platform
11. Native Mobile Apps
When To
• Long Running Services
• Complex N/W comm.
• Canvas based Apps
• Only Few Platforms
When Not To
• Replica Web Apps
• Standard Restful
• Widget based apps
• Many Platforms
12. Cross Platform Mobile Apps
When To
• Complex backend Apps
• Standard Restful
• Widget based apps
• Many Platforms
When Not To
• Long Running Services
• Complex N/W comm.
• Canvas based Apps
• Only Few Platforms
13. Hybrid Mobile Apps
When To
• Fairly Simple UI
• Complex Backend
• Quite few platforms
Why To
• Some parts of app are common
• Rest parts are different
• Use Cross Platform to develop
common part
• Use Native to develop the
weight lifting parts
16. WebKit Platform
• All Mobile Platforms have something common that is a
Modern Browser
• All these browsers are based on WebKit - Apple and Android
• Moreover all these platform support showing embedded
browser in Applications ( WebView)
• Strange enough all these WebViews provide hooks from
javascript to java and vice a versa
• In short WebView is the new Virtual Machine
17. Mapping to Native Code
• Say Application is written in JavaScript
• The JavaScript code is running in Interpreter
• The Interpreter internally forwards calls to the native code
• Limitation being the you can only map to subset of code
available on all target platforms.
• OR you allow for fragmentation in api, like Titanium Mobile
does for involving Android services
18. Mobile App Dev Frameworks
Common Platform
• PhoneGap / Apache
Cordova
• Titanium Desktop
Mapping to Native
• Titanium Mobile
• Rho Mobile
21. PhoneGap Prerequistes
• Need to be acquainted with Android, IOS, BlackBerry, WebOS
• Need to be expert at HTML/Javascript or framework like GWT
• Need to be acquainted with JavaScript libraries like
• Ionic ,Angular.js
• Prototype
• Etc
• Or Ajax framework like GWT
• Use existing IDEs like Eclipse or Xcode, PhoneGap has no IDE
24. Titanium Prerequistes
• Need to be acquainted with Android, IOS programming
• Need to know JavaScript
• Use Titanium Mobile IDE to configure projects and use Text
IDE to edit the code
26. Native App Development
• Basically you need to hire experts who can
• Build Android, IOS, BB, BlackBerry and Windows mobile apps
• Devs should have experience to deploy apps on market
• Devs should have experience on various devices
• QA should know how to automate things on devices/emulator
• Have concrete plans on
• What is Trial app?
• How does user upgrade?
• Use in app billing to have fine grained control
• Plan for risks if this is your companies first Mobile App
deployment
28. Hybrid App Development
• Have Web Developers for Common UI
• Have native code experts for heavy weight lifting
• Use frameworks like PhoneGap to glue the above two pieces
• Measure at every milestone to keep track of effect of changes
• Use Automation to regress every layer
29. Comparison
Titanium
• Gives out native app
• API is more proprietary
• UI has Limitations
• UI will be fast
• Much better User Experience
• Portal Code can not be
reused
• Extensions are possible
• Limited support for
HTML/Javascript
PhoneGap
• Gives out a mobile web app
• API is less proprietary
• UI possibilities are unlimited
• UI could be slow
• User Experience will get
better with enhancements
• Portal Code can be reused
• Plugins are possible and easy
to implement
More will come out of discussion, comments are welcome
31. Cross Desktop App Dev
• Following are options worth considering
• Nokia QT (webkit based)
• Titanium Desktop (webkit based)
• Adobe Air (flash based) but slow
• Java
• Many more
32. JavaScript to Native Channel
• Assume a single channel from Javascript to native and back
from native to Javascript is present
• This Single Channel can provide infinite control to the native
code. One needs to just add more code to the native end and
add new messages for it to be exposed.
• However, understand that Javascript is single threaded and
the callbacks will execute only if there is no javascript running.
33. Cross platform app
development
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