by Klemens Zleptnig at BarCamp / MobileCamp Vienna Nov. 2010

1. Cross Platform
Mobile Development
Klemens Zleptnig, creative workline
zleptnig@creativeworkline.com
@klemensz
2010-11-20

2. Titanium Mobile
• Open Source (Apache 2.0)
• iPhone, iPad and Android
• Javascript, HTML, CSS, Python, Ruby, and PHP
• HTML 5 and CSS 3 support
• 300 APIs, full access to camera, accelerometer,
compass, local file system, …
• Code modules in Objective-C or Java
• Has IDE
• Native UI
http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile-application-development/

3. Code Example
var tableView =
Titanium.UI.createTableView({data:data,title:‘Table'},
function(eventObject)
{
var a = Titanium.UI.createAlertDialog();
a.setTitle(eventObject.rowData.title);
a.setMessage(desc_data[eventObject.rowData.title]);
a.show();
});
//add view to current window
Titanium.UI.currentWindow.addView(tableView);
// show view
Titanium.UI.currentWindow.showView(tableView);
}

4. Phone Gap
• Open Source
• iPhone, Android, Palm, Symbian, Maemo,
Windows Mobile, and Blackberry
• HTML, CSS, Javascript
• WebAppWrapper
• Problem: Performance
• Has no IDE
• „Not so native“
http://www.phonegap.com/

5. PhoneGap Supported Features
Source: http://www.phonegap.com/about

6. jQuery Mobile
• Supports all major mobile platforms, some
more, some less
• Open Source
• HTML, JavaScript, CSS
• Web Apps
http://jquerymobile.com/

7. Unify Project
• Metaframework by DeutscheTelekom
• „Native-like applications for smartphones,
tablets and desktops”
• Released Sep. 2010: iOS,Android, webOS
• Q1/2011: BlackBerry OS 6
• Q3-Q4/2011: Symbian 3.x, MeeGo, Bada,
Windows Phone
• HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript
• Wraps four frameworks: PhoneGap, Adobe Air,
qooxdoo, Sass
http://unify.github.com/unify/

8. Among Others…
• LWUIT
– https://lwuit.dev.java.net
– Java ME, ports for BlackBerry, Android, CDC
• XMLVM
– http://www.xmlvm.org
– cross compiler
• Qt
– http://qt.nokia.com
– MeeGo, Maemo, Symbian,Windows Mobile
• SenchaTouch
– http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/
– HTML 5, JavaScript – iPhone, Android