PhoneGap / PhoneGap Build

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Mihai Corlan / Adobe Web Evangelist / @mcorlan

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Mobile Development

1. Native Apps2. Web Apps3. Hybrid Apps (eg. PhoneGap)

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Why would you use PhoneGap?

Write once, run everywhere Native Installers -> Application Stores Use standard web technologies

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PhoneGap could be your best friend if

You want to target multiple mobile platforms You know HTML/JavaScript/CSS Extending existing in-browser apps with native features Data-centric apps, social networking, simple games

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PhoneGap Apache Cordova?

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Contributors

Adobe – of course Microsoft – Windows Phone support RIM – BlackBerry support / Ripple Emulator IBM

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PhoneGap supports 7 platforms

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PhoneGap Plug-ins

Extend the built-in functionality with custom plug-ins http://wiki.phonegap.com/w/page/36752779/PhoneGap

%20Plugins Examples: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins

Delegate heavyweight data processing to native code Create background services

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Who else is using PhoneGap?

Facebook Mobile SDK SalesForce.com Mobile SDK IBM Worklight Platform SAP

Some numbers: ~ 4% apps in iTunes Store use PhoneGap (Sep 2011) ~ 100,000 monthly downloads of PhoneGap SDK

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Demo

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Building PhoneGap Apps

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What can you use to build your app?

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Build PhoneGap app as you’d build a regular web app

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Creating the native installers

There are 2 different methods: Using the target platform tool chain Using PhoneGap Build – a cloud service

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Using the PhoneGap Build

http://build.phonegap.com Supports: iOS, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS, Windows Phone

7, and Symbian It is in beta and it is free; it will always be free for Open

Source projects You upload your files (index.html, CSS, JS, images) Or you provide a Git / SVN link

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PhoneGap Debug

http://debug.phonegap.com

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PhoneGap Emulate

http://emulate.phonegap.com

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Resources

Source code: github.com/callback Docs: docs.phonegap.com Wiki: wiki.phonegap.com PhoneGap Build: build.phonegap.com PhoneGap Emulate: emulate.phonegap.com Plugins: github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins Support: groups.google.com/group/phonegap IRC: irc.freenode.net #phonegap Apps: phonegap.com/apps Bugs: issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB

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PhoneGap Day Europe – Amsterdam September 14th

http://pgday.phonegap.com/eu2012/

Questions & Answers!

Thank you!

Mihai Corlan@mcorlanhttp://corlan.org

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How does PhoneGap work?

PhoneGap App Mobile Device

PhoneGapNativeEngine

PhoneGapJavaScriptEngine

Web ViewRenders the app UI

Access to nativemobilefeaturesYour Code

HTML/JavaScript/CSS/Images/Frameworks/Libraries