This document discusses the proliferation of digital devices and how organizations can manage providing information across multiple platforms. It recommends using a web-based approach with APIs and frameworks like PhoneGap to create applications that can run on any device with a browser. This allows organizations to meet the needs of users with different devices while managing limited resources more efficiently than native applications. The document presents PhoneGap as a solution that packages web content into applications that can be deployed across many common devices.

1. Dawn of
the devices
a guide to surviving the
device apocalypse
@hitsmachines @mwbrooks
Ryan Betts, Lead Designer - Phonegap Build Michael Brooks, developer - phonegap core

2. origin of the devices
Evil has risen from humble beginnings.

3. same info, many sources
None of these have disappeared. We’re just preoccupied with the new ones.

4. Bring your own device

5. NGER
Bring your own device
DA

6. Bring your ownDISAST
device ER

7. logistical nightmare

8. logistical nightmare
native apps require a lot of overhead.. but you can charge $$$* for them.
*and sometimes people will even buy them . . but you guys are cities, so nobody is going to buy your apps.

9. apps were a good start

10. but now we are overrun
and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight

11. we need a general
purpose tool

12. THE LOBO
“a fusion of shovel and double-bladed battle axe”

13. THE WEB
“a fusion of API’S and TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION”

14. theSE all have browsers
not necessarily all good ones, but we can make do.

15. so ... back to the horde
the information hungry horde
TONS OF DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS
TONS OF DIFFERENT INFORMATIONAL NEEDS
FINITE (HUMAN) RESOURCES
FINITE BUDGETS
FINITE TIME

16. INFORMATION DEVELOPERS
... OR MAYBE YOU’D PREFER API DEVELOPERS.

17. SUPPORT THE DEVELOPER
... and they will solve their
own problems
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18. same old story
just new mediums.

19. same old story
just new mediums.

20. apis: tried and tested

21. apis: tried and tested

22. UNLEASH THE OPEN DATA

23. vancouver drinking fountains
case study: zombie
survival with open data

24. WEB IS THE TOOL

25. WEB IS THE TOOL
API is THE STRATEGY

26. WEB IS THE TOOL
API is THE STRATEGY

27. apps vs web
Th e user the middle
t in
gets caugh

28. THE PHONEGAP S AFE HOUSE
+ poly fills th e web
+i t is dep loyable
+ practi ce the future
+ extens ible (plu gins!)

29. STANDARD ISSUE ON ALL DEVICES
all the popular ones and the not so popular ones as well
including tablets, of course

30. Here is a Typical
phonegap
workflow.

31. Here is a Typical
phonegap
workflow.

32. one
problem.
IDES+SDKS take up a
lot of space.

33. problem solved.

35. FINALE

36. APP DEvs
solve our
problems

37. INFORMATION DEVELOPERS
THINK OF OUR CHILDREN

38. the future is unkown,
but good always
prevails.

39. questions?
@hitsmachines @mwbrooks
Ryan Betts, Lead Designer - Phonegap Build Michael Brooks, developer - phonegap core