Brian LeRoux, Nitobi

PhoneGap: Mobile Applications with HTML, CSS and JavaScript

phonegap.com
nitobi.com

brian@nitobi.com

twitter.com/brianleroux
brianleroux.github.com
westcoastlogic.com
etc.
pretty fucking rad conf right?

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Nitobi Software
‣ Founded in 1998
‣ 15 employees
‣ Based in Vancouver, BC (Gastown)
‣ ^---Canada, eh.
‣ Early player in JavaScript, Ajax, AIR,
Mobile web

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<3 JavaScript Esp.<3 FOSS
‣ CompleteUI
‣ PhoneGap

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interwebs
‣ its more than a serious tube

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The mobile web opportunity

‣ 1 Billion television sets worldwide.

‣ 2 Billion web enabled mobile devices.

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The situation room
Platform Language Awesome
iPhone Objective C Not so much.
Android Java (Dalvik VM) Ok.
Blackberry Java (Who knows.) Bad scene.

Windows Mobile .NET and/or C++ Nuff said.

Nokia C++, Java, Flash Sorta cool right?

Lite, Web tech
Palm HTML. CSS. Exactly.
JavaScript.

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We’ve seen this before...
‣ History doomed DOOOMED to repeat
itself.
‣ Platforms. Fragmentation.
‣ Gopher. Etc.

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Stand back! I know javascript.

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Obligatory lolcat fail.
‣ Platforms don’t scale.
‣ This internet thing does.
‣ internets? ftw! LULZ

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In the beginning...
‣ There was beer.
‣ Then the iPhone was released!
‣ Web tech ftw!
‣ Beer!
‣ Wait: Objective C.
‣ Dudeman. Time for more beer.
‣ Etc.
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Brock Whitten, solving problems

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Our philosophy
‣ The purpose of PhoneGap is for
PhoneGap to cease to exist.

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So.. what?
‣ What can PhoneGap do for you?
‣ Anything the phone can do? Fuck off!
‣ No shit! You can now rock out with
renewed authority. MIT style.
‣ Make your mobile device your minion.
Your slave. You ask it to jump and it
responds, “Let this application use
your current location?”.

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why are we doing this anyhow?

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PhoneGap now
‣ iPhone
‣ Android
‣ Blackberry

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PhoneGap soon
‣ iPhone
‣ Android
‣ Blackberry
‣ Nokia
‣ Windows Mobile
‣ Palm Pre

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Site specific browsers
‣ XULRunner or Prism
‣ Fluid
‣ ..or maybe..
‣ AIR or Titanium?
‣ ...
‣ maybe the browsers should let us do
this cool stuff?

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App stores
‣ Apple
‣ Google Android
‣ Blackberry
‣ Windows Mobile (skymarket)
‣ Nokia (ovi)
‣ Palm
‣ Nintendo (this is awesome btw)

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How do you make money?
‣ Advertising
‣ Freemium
‣ Subscription
‣ Value add type apps
‣ iFart type apps
‣ Niche type apps
‣ Building apps for others.
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Problems we are not solving
‣ Open GL
‣ Building a browser
‣ Sub standard devices

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HTML 5
‣ (sorta)

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Code. Finally.
‣ lets get serious.
*
**

* this one is for you tom

** thx for the graphic alexei

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Geolocation

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Accelerometer

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Contacts

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Vibration
‣ heh.

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Make some noise
‣ phone beep events
‣ phone lights blinky
‣ any audio
‣ most video

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PhoneGap in the wild
‣ Over 50 apps in the store.
‣ Very likely many more.
‣ Lots of forks too..
‣ http://github.com/sintaxi/phonegap

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Techniques
‣ PhoneGap apps are just web apps.

‣ HTML
‣ CSS
‣ JS
‣ ...and you.

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Webkit is winning
‣ easily the most advanced, fastest, ass
kicking, name taking browser
‣ css transitions, animations, etc
‣ custom fonts
‣ sqlite
‣ you cannot distinguish a well written
web app from a native app

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Dashcode
‣ WTF!!!
‣ Totally got overshadowed by the SDK
‣ Amazing
‣ iPhone only.

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iUI
‣ old school
‣ not super well maintained
‣ no css transitions
‣ kinda clunky approach

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Magic Framework
‣ looks hot
‣ jQuery based
‣ under dev

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jqTouch
‣ beautiful uis
‣ jQuery based
‣ fast (once it loads)

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XUI
‣ experimental fun
‣ jQuery inspired
‣ lightweight
‣ no gui controls. thats ur problem

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Roll your own?
‣ Simplest thing that could possibly
work.
‣ Progressively enhance.
‣ Repeat.

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Quick note on testing..
‣ JSSpec
‣ Firebug light
‣ The devices themselves. (emulators do
not emulate the execution times)

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PhoneGap in the future
‣ hoverboards mthrfkr

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The internet of things.

‣ Its not just about phones.

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Gecko rendering

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Moar devices
‣ Nokia
‣ Windows mobile
‣ Palm Pre
‣ Blackberry pls pls wtf pls
‣ Nintendo DS?

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An open toolchain
‣ gcc, make, etc

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PhoneGap Simulator
‣ emulator
‣ simulator
‣ stimulator
‣ ..wait, what?

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New interfaces
‣ speech (sphinx wrapper)
‣ sqlite wrapper ala couch
‣ sockets (fuck ya)
‣ file io
‣ sms and telephone api (undocumented)
‣ facebook connect (nifty contrib)
‣ native controls***
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Resources
‣ http://phonegap.com
‣ http://phonegap.pbwiki.com
‣ http://groups.google.com/group/
phonegap
‣ twitter.
‣ etc.

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Get involved
‣ docs!
‣ tests and specs pls
‣ code and ideas most welcome
‣ fork it and hack it
‣ build something for yourself
‣ have fun and talk about it on the
mailing list, ur blawg, twitter, etc.

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Thank you!

‣ http://phonegap.com
‣ http://blogs.nitobi.com/brian
‣ http://brianleroux.github.com
‣ http://westcoastlogic.com

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