PhoneGap allows developers to build cross-platform mobile apps using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It bridges web apps and mobile devices by wrapping web content in a native container. Developers can leverage the skills they already have to build apps that work across platforms without having to learn multiple languages. The process involves using web technologies and PhoneGap tools to build the app, then deploying it to different mobile platforms.

1. PhoneGap
Building Cross-platform Mobile Applications with
PhoneGap

2. Mobile Landscape
• Mobile Development is a mess
• Building applications for each device
requires different frameworks and
languages

3. Mobile Landscape
• Mobile Development is a mess
• Building applications for each device
requires different frameworks and
languages

6. A Solution
PhoneGap will use standards-based web
technologies to bridge web applications
and mobile devices.

7. What is PhoneGap?
• Open source solution for building cross-
platform mobile apps
• Leverages web technologies you already
know

8. The Process

9. The Process

10. Leverages web technologies that you already know

11. Why not build a mobile
website?

12. Why not build a mobile
website?

13. Why not build a mobile
website?
Camera Accelerometer
Contacts Events
Storage File System

14. Getting Started
(demo)
• What you get from PhoneGap
• Hello World
• Hello Notifications

15. What did you just see?
• HTML5
• CSS
• javascript
• Cross-platform Portability

16. 3rd Party Tools
(sample)
_.

17. What to watch for
• It’s not native
• Javascript can get out of control
• Debugging looks a lot like: console.log(“boo”);

18. Where it works
• HTML + javascript skillz that pay the bills
• Large corporate environments filled with
different mobile platforms
• Want a presence, but don’t want to get
bogged down in languages

19. Other Options
• Rhodes - http://rhomobile.com/
• Titanium - http://www.appcelerator.com
• Mobile Site - m.yoursite.com

20. Recap
• Mobile development landscape can be
messy
• PhoneGap makes cross-platform feasible
• It’s easy to get started
• You could build an “app for that”

21. Thank You
• @kevinwlee
• kevinwarrenlee@gmail.com
• tallythings.com

22. ChaiONE
• If this interests you, we are hiring!
• kevin@chaione.com
• chaione.com