The document discusses options for creating cross-platform mobile apps, including Corona, PhoneGap, RhoMobile, Titanium Mobile, and Unity 3D. It provides pros and cons of each platform. It also discusses tools for UI design, app frameworks, DOM manipulation, testing, and lists additional resources for learning about cross-platform mobile development.

1. Cross Platform
Mobile Apps?
The Little I Do Know
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2. “Cross Platform?!”
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3. The Cross Platform
“Enablers”
• Corona
• PhoneGap
• RhoMobile
• Titanium Mobile
• Unity 3d
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4. Corona
Pros Cons
• ~$400 a year
• HUGE API • Not Actually
• “Launchpad” JavaScript
• Lots of tutorials • Only iOS/Android
for mobile
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5. PhoneGap
Pros Cons
• Free (As in Beer)
• HTML5/JS Based
• TONS of platforms • API is Device
• Doesn’t try to do oriented
everything
• No guidance on App
• HTML5/JS Based structure
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6. RhoMoble
Pros Cons
• App kinda requires
both client and
• Ruby on Rails! (ish) server
• TONS of platforms • “Rails ISH”
framework
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7. Titanium Mobile
Pros Cons
• Gives you
• F’en Expensive!
awesome native
feel • Expects you to
follow their
• Desktop too! structure
• HTML5/JS Based • Only iOS/Android
• Can Write Rubies! for mobile
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8. Unity3D
Pros Cons
• Expensive (again)
• Great for game dev • Not Actually
JavaScript
• Can deploy to
web/iOS/Android/ • Requires their IDE/
Etc. Framework
• Hard to Test
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9. UI Look and Feel
• DHXTouch
• Sencha Touch
• Dojo Mobile
• Unify
• Jo
• Wink
• jQuery Mobile
• jQTouch
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10. Application
Frameworks
• Backbone
• DHXTouch • Sencha Touch
• Dojo Mobile • Unify
• Jo
• jQTouch
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11. DOM Manipulation &
Other Stuff
•
jQuery
• XUI
• RequireJS
• Zepto
• Lawnchair
• EmbedJS
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12. Testing
• cucumber
• jasmine
• jasmine-headless- • qunit
webkit
• jasmine-jquery
• jstestdriver
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13. JS Test Driver
• Run your jasmine
tests across all the
platforms at once
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14. More Resources
• http://bit.ly/so-cp-mobile-compare
• http://http://www.phonegap.com/tools/
• http://tddjs.com/
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