1. Cross Platform Solutions for
Mobile Applications
DevCon Summit 2013 #MobileDevNBeyond

2. About your speaker
• Microsoft Most Valuable
Professional for C#
• Senior Developer for
Readify
• Mobile app developer
starting in
2010, specialized on iOS
@lattex
jonlimjap@gmail.com
http://dotnet.kapenilattex.com

3. Agenda
• Why cross platform?
• Different types of cross platform solutions
• Does cross platform work?
• Is cross platform for me?

4. Why Cross Platform?
Cross Platform vs. Native Development

5. No need to master multiple platforms
Windows Phone

6. Program once deploy everywhere

7. Leverage existing expertise

8. Different types of cross platform solutions
More than one way to skin a cat!

9. One framework to rule them all

10. HTML5 + JS + PhoneGap FTW!
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11. But wait… how about GAMES?

12. CONFUSED MUCH?

14. Does cross platform work?
Between November 2012 and 2013,
HTML5 on mobile was hounded with issues

15. Facebook and it’s mistake
“The biggest mistake we made
as a company was betting too
much on HTML5 as opposed to
native”
- Mark Zuckerberg,
TechCrunch Disrupt, Nov 9, 2012

16. Sencha strikes back with FastBook!
“When you treat the browser as
an application platform and
leverage the features of
HTML5, even the most
sophisticated applications can
be made with HTML5.”
-Jamie Avins and Jacky Nguyen
“The Making of Fastbook: An HTML5 Love Story”
Dec 17, 2012

17. LinkedIn says “it’s the tools”
“Because [a working debugger and
runtime diagnostics information tools]
don’t exist, people are falling back to
native. It’s not that HTML5 isn’t ready;
it’s that the ecosystem doesn’t support
it. … There are tools, but they’re at the
beginning. People are just figuring out
the basics.”
- Kiran Prasad,
“Why LinkedIn dumped HTML5 & went native for its mobile apps”,
April 17, 2013

18. A case of mismanaged expectations?
“HTML5 is now close to
prime time and more and
more business are looking to
HTML5 to solve market
challenges.”
- Rob Grossberg,
“How HTML5 Crashed, Burned, and Rose Again”, Nov 18, 2013

19. Is cross platform for me?
Something to ponder

20. Ask yourself
Do I need a mobile app or a
mobile-viewable web site?
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21. Thank you!
@lattex | jonlimjap@gmail.com | dotnet.kapenilattex.com

22. References
• Avins, Jamie & Nguyen, Jacky – The Making of Fastbook: An HTML5 Love
Story - http://www.sencha.com/blog/the-making-of-fastbook-an-html5love-story
• Grossberg, Rob – How HTML5 Crashed, Burned, And Rose Again http://readwrite.com/2013/11/18/assessing-the-aftermath-of-thehtml5-hype-cycle
• Odell, J. – Why LinkedIn Dumped HTML5 & Went Native For Its Mobile
Apps - http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/17/linkedin-mobile-webbreakup/
• Olanoff, Drew – Mark Zuckerberg: Our Biggest Mistake Was Betting Too
Much On HTML5 - http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/mark-zuckerbergour-biggest-mistake-with-mobile-was-betting-too-much-on-html5/