PhoneGap – Solving Mobile Fragmentation Problems

By Rohit Ghatol and Yogesh Patel Author of “Beginning PhoneGap”

30 Minutes Presentation!

Rest all Discussion!

Then Quiz!!

Topics

FragmentationCost

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Market

Dev QA team

Best

Practices

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Anything you wanna talk about!!

UI Development

Max

Reuse

Tools

QAMashups

Mobile Fragmentation

What is PhoneGap?

• What it is?Its an extensible JavaScript API Library?

• What it is not?Not an UI Framework Not a Packaging Framework Not an IDE

Geo Location

Contacts

Capture Image

And many more…

• But the catch isYou still need to use

- Android, - iPhone,- BlackBerry and etc

Development Environment to build and package the final mobile application

Its available on 6 Mobile Platforms

Why PhoneGap?

iPhone Android BlackBerry Windows

PhoneGap.js PhoneGap.js PhoneGap.js PhoneGap.js ........

Coffee

Generic FeaturesMobile Features

• HTML UI• Login• Ajax Calls• Maps API

• GPS Coordinates• Local Storage• Compass• Camera

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How to use PhoneGap?

Heaven for Mashups

Understand JS Mashups

• Understand Single Origin Policy

• How this problem does not affect PhoneGap Apps?

• Think about possibilities without the need of a server

Understand the Problem

http://abc.com

http://api.maps.com

http://api.twitter.com

http://api.facebook.com

{json req resp}

Single Origin Policy restricts this

Traditional Solutions

http://abc.com

http://api.maps.com

http://api.twitter.com

http://api.facebook.com

{jsonp req resp}

Single Origin Policy

JSONP makes cross domain

request possible

http://abc.com

http://api.maps.comhttp://api.twitter.comhttp://api.facebook.com

Server Side Code

http://abc.com

PROXY MODEL

Server is required

What’s different about PhoneGap?

PhoneGap Apps don’t have any domain names.

PhoneGap ApplicationHTML files have no

domain name

http://api.maps.com

http://api.twitter.com

http://api.facebook.com

{json req resp}

Single Origin PolicyDoes not apply

Developing PhoneGap UI

jQueryMobile

Best for Simpler only Smart Phone UI

Sencha Touch

Best for Complex SmartPhone/Tablet UI

GWT

• Best for CoBest Framework to build your own solutions on. Good for in house product development platform

• GWT Library is available at http://code.google.com/p/gwt-phonegap/

• mplex SmartPhone/Tablet UI

PhoneGap’s Plugin Platform

Some Exciting PhoneGap Plugin

• Facebook Connect Plugin• Android C2DM Plugin• Apple Push Plugin

Ripple - PhoneGap Emulator

DEMO THIS

PhoneGap – Remote Debug

DEMO THIS

PhoneGap Build

Build on the Cloud

Quiz

• What Mobile Platforms does PhoneGap Supports?

• How many callbacks does a typical PhoneGap API required? What are these?

• How do we debug a PhoneGap App deployed to mobile phone?

• What is the first event fired by PhoneGap?• Can PhoneGap Apps do background processing?