Keynote from my Phonegap introduction at Community Day 2011. http://www.communityday.dk/ http://tap5.com https://github.com/cybear/HTML5-Color-Clock

1. Phonegap
An introduction by Björn Söderqvist, tap5.com

2. Short story

3. EVE Online
• Merchants buy and sell
• There’s not an app for that
• “I need to make an app!”

4. EVE Wallet

5. Options
• Native (Cocoa, Obj-C for me)
• Appcelerator Titanium
• Phonegap

6. Native
• + Great speed
• - Steep learning curve (for a web dev)

7. Titanium
• + Native components
• + Both Android and iPhone
• - I had provisioning and SCM problems
• - Home-made API
• - Compiles JS, did not always work for me

8. Enter Phonegap
• Write as you do for the web
• HTML5+CSS3 FTW
• Web standards!
• Device API ahead of the browsers
• iOS, Android, Symbian, WP7, Blackberry,
WebOS
• - Not Native

9. App or webapp?
• Technically, Phonegap opens a browser
• + You get extra API goodies
• + You can sell it

10. Polyfilling the web
• Implementing W3C’s device API
• -but Phonegap has an express goal to cease
to exist!

11. Test code: Color Clock
• Basic code with a little CSS3
• Colors!
• (under 1K!)
https://github.com/cybear/HTML5-Color-Clock

12. Installing Phonegap
• Visit www.phonegap.com
• Download latest
• See Getting started guide

13. GUI frameworks
• JQuery Mobile (in Alpha)
• Sencha Touch
• Dojo Mobile (0.2)
• or roll your own!
• jQuery UI is for keyboard and mouse

14. (Demo time and Q’s)