PhoneGap / Cordova HTML5 Apps on all Major Platforms

Felix Rieseberg Developer Evangelist, Microso! Mihai Corlan Developer Evangelist, Adobe

About Us

Felix Rieseberg

§  Microso! Developer Evangelist

§  h"p://felixrieseberg.com

§  h"p://twi"er.com/felixrieseberg

§  felix.rieseberg@microso!.com

Mihai Corlan

§  Adobe Web Developer Evangelist

§  Blog: h"p://corlan.org

§  Twi"er: mcorlan

§  Email: mcorlan@adobe.com

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Let’s talk Mobile Development

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Let’s talk HTML5

Bridging the Gap

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Cordova summarized so far

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Develop once, deploy everywhere.

Chromeless browser WebApp & API Bridge Native Package

Cordova supports 7 platforms

Cordova Compatibility

Demo

How does Cordova work?

Cordova App Mobile Device

Cordova Native Engine

Cordova JavaScript Engine

Web View Renders the app UI

Access to native mobile features Your Code

HTML/JavaScript/CSS/Images/ Frameworks/Libraries

Cordova Plug-ins

§  h"p://wiki.phonegap.com/w/page/36752779/PhoneGap%20Plugins

§  Examples of plugins: h"ps://github.com/purplecabbage/phonegap-plugins

§  Extend the built-in functionality with custom plug-ins

§  Delegate heavyweight data processing to native code

§  Create background services

Building Cordova Apps

Build your Cordova app as you’d build a regular web app

§  Using your favorite editors (Eclipse, vim, Dreamweaver, Visual Studio)

§  Test and debug the app using your desktop browser

§  Test and debug the app using mobile simulators/emulators and the physical devices

What can you use to build your app?

§  Remember your application will run on the device’s browser

§  You can use whatever JavaScript frameworks or libraries you like. Eg. jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Sencha, Backbone, Liquid, Mustache, Bootrstrap, and so on

§  Pay a"ention to performance (mobile vs. desktop)

§  Pay a"ention to mobile browser features or lack of them (I am talking about SVG)

Creating the native installers

#ere are 2 different methods to build the native installers for your PhoneGap app:

§  Using the target platform tool chain

§  Using PhoneGap Build – a cloud service

Using the platform native tool chain

§  Use the OS and tools each platform recommends:

§  iOS - h"p://phonegap.com/start#ios-x4

§  Android - h"p://phonegap.com/start#android

§  BlackBerry - h"p://phonegap.com/start#blackberry

§  Windows Phone - h"p://phonegap.com/start#wp

§  WebOS: h"p://phonegap.com/start#webos

§  Symbian: h"p://phonegap.com/start#symbian

Using PhoneGap Build

§  h"p://build.phonegap.com - a cloud service

§  Supports: iOS, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS, Windows Phone 7, and Symbian

§  Supports one plugin (ChildBrowser); but you can hack in support for other plugins

§  It is in beta and it is free; it will always be free for Open Source projects

§  You upload your %les (index.html, CSS, JS, images)

§  Or you provide a Git / SVN link

§  Support for debugging

Resources

§  Source: github.com/callback

§  Docs: docs.phonegap.com

§  Wiki: wiki.phonegap.com

§  PhoneGap Build: build.phonegap.com

§  Plugins: github.com/purplecabbage/phonegap-plugins

§  Support: groups.google.com/group/phonegap

§  IRC: irc.freenode.net #phonegap

§  Apps: phonegap.com/apps

§  Bugs: issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB

#ank You!

Question & Answers Time!

Mihai Corlan

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Felix Rieseberg

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felix.rieseberg@microso!.com