Tim Kim's talk about PhoneGap at CloudStock. March 15, 2012

1. PhoneGap

2. About Me
• Tim Kim
• Dev at Adobe/Nitobi
• @timkim
• timk@adobe.com
• <3 JS, SC2, and movie quotes

3. What is PhoneGap?

4. What is PhoneGap?
1) Write a web app using HTML5 technologies
JS/HTML/CSS

5. What is PhoneGap?
2) Package your web app into PhoneGap
Common device interface: PhoneGap API
Extend: PhoneGap PlugIns

6. What is PhoneGap?
3) Deploy to multiple devices
iOS, Android, Blackberry, WP7, WebOS, …

7. What is PhoneGap?
• PhoneGap API:
– An interface to the most common set of device
functionality
– Contacts, GeoLocation, File, Camera, etc…
– All accessible through JS
– docs.phonegap.com

8. What is PhoneGap?
• PhoneGap PlugIns:
– A way to extend your PhoneGap app if you want
to access more than what the PhoneGap API
provides
– Process: Write a native implementation then use
JS to call that native function

9. PhoneGap Mantra
Write once debug everywhere

10. The Alternative?
Write your app natively
• iOS – Objective C
• Android – Java
• BlackBerry – Java
• webOS – HTML, CSS, and JS
• Windows Phone 7 - .Net
• Bada – C++

11. The Alternative?
• Need a dev who knows the platform
• Multiple code bases
• Longer turn around time to get releases out to
all platforms

12. YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A WORLD OF PAIN

13. All right…maybe that’s a little extreme
• Native still gives you the best
performance
• And maybe the web isn’t your thing
…buuuuuuut

14. PhoneGap is Free!
Submitted to the Apache
foundation: Apache Cordova
Contribute back today:
incubator.apache.org/cordova/

15. PhoneGap Build
- Upload your app to PhoneGap
Build and compile in the cloud
- No need to download sdks
- Free open beta right now

16. Demo Time!