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Roy Clarkson and Keith Donald

SpringSource, a division of VMware, Inc.

Making the Mobile Web Native with PhoneGap

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Agenda

• Introduction• Support for Android and iOS• PhoneGap API & Plugins• PhoneGap Build• Remote Debugging• html5expense reference app walk-through• Q&A

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Introduction

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What problem are we trying to solve?

• Each device has a different native development SDK and associated programming language

• For a variety of reasons, it may not be feasible to build and maintain multiple native apps

• How can we reach all these different devices and app stores?

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Native Development Environments

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What is the solution?

• Build your application using web standards like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

• But what about accessing other features of the device, such as the camera or contacts list?

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What is PhoneGap?

“PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and app stores. PhoneGap leverages web technologies developers already know best... HTML and JavaScript.” - phonegap.com

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PhoneGap and Nitobi in the News

• In October 2011, Adobe acquired Nitobi enabling the team to focus solely on the PhoneGap project and continue its work on efficient expressive design and development across devices.

• The PhoneGap code was contributed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under the name Apache Callback in October 2011. It is currently under incubation until it can become a full Apache project.

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Support for iOS and Android

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iOS Configuration

• Mac OS X• Xcode 4• iOS simulator• PhoneGap• Xcode project template

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Android Configuration

• Eclipse• Android SDK• ADT Plugin for Eclipse• PhoneGap

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Phonegap API and plugins

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Phonegap Core Device APIs

• Accelerometer• Camera / Media Capture• Connection• Compass• Contacts• Events / Notifications• File• Geolocation• Storage

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Phonegap Core Device APIs (2)

• API Documentation– http://docs.phonegap.com/en/1.1.0/

• Source Code– Android: https://github.com/callback/callback-android– IOS: https://github.com/callback/callback-ios

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Demo: Phonegap APIs

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Phonegap Plugins

• Moving toward “everything is a plugin” model• Core “plugins” included by default• New plugins can be added / developed in a consistent

way– JavaScripts– Native bridging for each platform e.g .java

• Source Code– https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins

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Demo: Plugins

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PhoneGap Build

• Cross platform– iOS– Android– webOS– Symbian– BlackBerry

• No local setup required• Supports Git• https://build.phonegap.com/

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Demo

Getting started with Phonegap Buildhttps://build.phonegap.comhttps://github.com/kdonald/hello-phonegap

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• Weinre– Debugger for web pages– Designed to work remotely– Debug web pages on a phone

• Availability– http://debug.phonegap.com/– http://phonegap.github.com/weinre/

Debugging

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Demo

Remote debugging demo

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• Phonegap 1.1.0• jquery Mobile• Camera API• “Stopgap” for portability• PhoneGap build for native builds

– Also created native projects so we can do local builds

• Weinre for remote debugging• “Hydra” for dynamic update capability

html5expense walkthrough

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Q&A