Learn how to use your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills to build innovative, device-neutral mobile apps that work on the iPhone, Android, Pre, and Blackberry platforms. It's possible with PhoneGap, the amazing open source development framework that enables programmers to bypass proprietary languages such as Objective-C.
This video tutorial offers a hands-on introduction to the PhoneGap framework. You'll learn how to build location-aware and mapping apps in HTML and JavaScript and still take advantage of native mobile device capabilities like geo location, camera, vibration, local storage and sound -- no matter which mobile platform you target.
Get an overview of mobile web opportunities and platform landscape
Start building location-aware and mapping applications for iPhone and Android
Overcome barriers to cross-device development
Discover the differences in capabilities across devices
Learn mobile web development with the XML User Interface (XUI)
Develop widgets with Apple's Dashcode
Get guidelines on how to get certified to sell your applications in the App Store, including provisioning, and more
Learn how to contribute back to the PhoneGap project
Join us to learn how to use your HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills to build innovative, device-neutral mobile apps.
Cross-Platform Mobile Development with PhoneGap1 hour 2 minutes
Jonathan Stark is a mobile and web application consultant who has been called "an expert on publishing desktop data to the web" by the Wall Street Journal. He has written two books on web application programming, is a tech editor for both php|architect and Advisor magazines, and has been quoted in the media on internet and mobile lifestyle trends. Jonathan began his programming career more than 20 years ago on a Tandy TRS-80 and still thinks Zork was a sweet game.
Brian LeRoux is the lead software architect at Nitobi Inc. where he focuses on delivering apps and helping developers all over the world write their apps. Contributor to PhoneGap and creator of XUI and Lawnchair. Suffice to say, Brian believes that the future of the internets is mobile and will rely on web standards, open source and hackers like you.
