cross platform mobile technologies
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Talentica recently hosted a meet up for Pune Mobile Developers. Pune Mobile developers is a group which is for enthusiasts in mobile technologies.TRANSCRIPT
PUNE MOBILE DEVELOPERS
CROSS PLATFORM MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES
14th September, 2013
AGENDA
Introduction and Icebreaker Technology Presentations
Mobile JSF Titanium Kony MoSync
Open Discussion Concluding Address Networking and Refreshments
INTRODUCTION
Started as mobile community in Talentica last year.
Open to anybody who is interested in mobile development
Share our experiences in mobile development space.
Increase awareness of fast growing mobile technologies among Developers
ICE-BREAKER – 1
Android vs iOS vs Windows vs others ?
ICE-BREAKER – 1
ICE-BREAKER – 2
How manyApps do you have?
ICE-BREAKER – 2
Android - 53iPhone - 83
CROSS PLATFORM TECHNOLOGIES
Solution for growing number of mobile operating systems and device specifications.
Business impact – Short time to market and reduced development costs
Future proof – Application portability to new OS
Single technology expertise – No need to have 4 different skills to develop on different OS.
MOBILE WEB - JSFSTOCK MARKET
Team Members:1. Smrutiranjan Sahu2. Shreyash Thakare
PLATFORM OVERVIEW
Java server faces(JSF) is a server side user interface component framework for Java technology-based web applications
Used to create server side applications which run on browsers.
Offers lots of re-useable code, MVC for web applications, clean separation of roles, built in AJAX capabilities and has huge vendor and industry support.
Primefaces is a JSF based framework that provides rich UI components making developers life easier
PrimeFaces Mobile is a UI kit to create JSF web applications optimized for mobile devices.
Powered by jQuery Mobile with PrimeFaces extensions, various platforms such as iPhone, Android, Palm, Blackberry, Windows Mobile are supported.
DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
Eclipse JSF (Primefaces Mobile), Prime Push Spring, Maven (optional)
PLATFORM PROS & CONS
Apps that run on a mobile browser and require rich UI components could use this framework.
Easy to learn. Just one jar with no dependencies and nothing
else to configure. Various themes available as well as custom
themes are possible.
Issues with integrating custom css. Paid support No clear distinction between desktop & mobile
components.(Need trial & error approach)
COMPATIBILITIES WITH MOBILE OS
Support same as JQuery Mobile. Works on almost all the latest mobile
browsers except for old phone browsers.
APPLICATION DEMO 1
APPLICATION DEMO 2
ISSUES FACED
Displaying Date/Time in OHLC chart. Auto resizing chart on orientation
change. Formatting values inside list. CSS issue in Autosuggest, Table.
TITANIUM APPCELERATORRSS FEED APP
Team Members:1. Ajay Chawda2. Samarth Gahire3. Manish Zope4. Deepish Adwani
PLATFORM OVERVIEW
Developed and maintained by Appcelerator inc.
A cross platform javascript based framework.
Easy access to native os and hardware features.
Modular and extensible architecture Growing developer community (5L+
Developers) It's FREE
DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
Native SDK should be installed. Titanium Studio (IDE) (or Aptana
eclipse plugin can be used). Installed Titanium studio on Windows
XP, Windows 7 and Ubuntu. (Support also available for MAC)
Tested the app on emulator and device both.
DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
COMPATIBILITIES WITH MOBILE OS
Android IOS Blackberry Tizen
ALLOY FRAMEWORK
Alloy - Powerful MVC i.e UI and app logic Alloy is built on Node.js, available on npm and
integrated with Titanium Studio. The goal is to make Titanium development
easier, faster and more scalable To use Alloy, node.js and Node.ACS should be
installed. You can use XML for views and JSON for styling
(tss). Reusable widgets and templates Built-in Backbone.js (which is base of MVC which
have rich model and collection APIs) and Underscore.js support which provides variety of utility functions like array and iterative helpers.
PLATFORM PROS & CONS
Rapid prototyping Web-oriented / Javascript Cross-platform Growing community
Increasing complexity Toolkit pain Bulky build Lot of if else cases to be handled
APPLICATION DEMO
APPLICATION DEMO
APPLICATION DEMO
ISSUES FACED
Debugging issue. Faced some bugs in representing the
data, but quickly figured out the workaround as support is easily available.
Code maintainability is an issue for titanium. But same can be overcome by using Alloy framework.
We need to figure out workarounds for the bugs with the titanium new releases
KONYPEOPLE SEARCH APP
Team Members:1. Avinash2. Rohit
KONY
Birth- 2007 with “Write once and Run everywhere” motto.
Eclipse IDE with plugins for development and debugging.
Develop native and HTML5 web apps. JavaScript based. Easily integrated with back-end systems. Support for third party libraries.
PLATFORM- 10,000 FEET OVERVIEW(INTERFACE DESIGN)
PLATFORM- 10,000 FEET OVERVIEW(BUSINESS LOGIC A.K.A. CODING)
PLATFORM- 10,000 FEET OVERVIEW(GOODIES)
PLATFORM- 10,000 FEET OVERVIEW(WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT)
ENTERPRISE APPS
Mobile App Kony
Server
Backend Server
(Your Web-page, or if
you run enterprise
server)
PLATFORM- AS WE KNOW NOW.
Support for all popular platforms (Android, iOS, BB, Win8, Desktop Browser).
Cross-platform API as well as Platform-Specific API.
Foreign Function Interface for third-party libraies like :barcode scanning, augmented reality, diagnostic sensors, NFC functions, pen-based features, accessing non-UI libraries, embedded third party UI widgets (i.e. sencha or jquery mobile).
Enterprise focus (Kony Server Bundled): Kony Server for easy backend integration. Web Services(REST, SOAP, JSON), ERM/CRP(SAP, Seibel etc).
PROS & CONS
Comprehensive set of UI Widgets and API supported by rich documentation.
Develop once or develop separate for platforms. Your choice.
Native code generation for platforms in addition to Single Page Application for Mobile/Desktop browsers.
HTML-scrapping and Web services integration really simple to develop.
Support for all the latest platform releases.
Resource Hungry IDE. Slow build-time for BB. It takes forever to build and run. No drawing APIs. You can NOT develop cool games. Bugs in IDE plugins and SPA plugins. No Demo versions for download. Need to buy it or request
for evaluation.
APPLICATION DEMO
Used Rest services exposed by pipl.com Kony’s XHR API used for service call and
Kony’s Segment Widget aka List View to present data.
MOSYNCTMDB APP
Team Members:1. Chetan Verma2. Sudhir Naik
PLATFORM OVERVIEW
Free and open source SDK for mobile applications
Produces native mobile applications for multiple platforms
Can use C/C++ and/or HTML5/JavaScript Targeted for both web developers and PC/Mac
desktop developers Supports Android 2.x-4.x, iOS, Windows Mobile
Classic, Windows Phone, Symbian S60, Java Mobile and the Moblin platform.
Available for Windows and Mac OS Extensive documentation available First version was launched in early 2005!
DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
MoSync SDK
Targeted at both C++ and HTML5/JS development
Integrated with the Eclipse development environment
Supported on MS Windows and Mac OS X(Linux users can use VirtualBox OSE)
Very easy to setup! ADT required to develop Android Apps
DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
MoSync Reload
Targeted exclusively at HTML5/JavaScript development
Web based JavaScript Workbench that helps to speed-up and simplify the development of the JavaScript code
Instantly see the result on any number of devices or emulators
Requires ‘Reload Client’ to be installed on test devices
Requires Mosync SDK to compile native applications for various platforms
DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
PLATFORM PROS & CONS
Can use C++ or HTML5/JavaScript or combination of both – Wormhole technology
Supports STL Different methods for designing user interface Fast UI development using Mosync Reload Supports OpenGL Compiles native applications Suitable for all kind of applications Commercial license and an open source GPL-2 license Extensive online documentation and help available
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PLATFORM PROS & CONS
No Debugger for NativeUI Applications JavaScript and C++ bridge is function based
and not very intuitive Native UI applications built using HTML5 may
not be efficient on some platforms Some features not implemented or not
efficient on all platforms.
COMPATIBILITIES WITH MOBILE OS
General support for most featuresExperimental implementations of some features, but not fully testedBackward compatibility only; no support for this release's new features or not yet tested
More details @ http://www.mosync.com/widepage/feature-platform-support
Platform Versions
Android 2.2 2.3.3 3.x.x 4.x
Blackberry 4.x 5.x 6.x 7.x
iOS 5.1.x 6.0.x 6.1.x
Java ME MIDP 2.x 3.0
Moblin 2.x
Symbian S60 2nd S60 3rd S60 5th Symbian^3 Anna Belle
Windows Mobile 2003 5.x 6.0 6.1 6.5
Windows Phone 7.5 7.8 8
APPLICATION DEMO
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OPEN DISCUSSION