1. Phonegap introduction
Josep Roca
Antti Vuorela
Android Aalto Community 2012

2. Too many platforms

14. Time...

15. Money...

16. App development is tedious

17. Different languages, frameworks,
tools, capabilities...

18. Adding new features... fixing
bugs for every platform...?

19. Do we need
apps?

21. Cannot access hardware

22. - Camera
- Local filesystem
- Accelerometer
- Contacts
- Media
- ...

24. Beware the name
- Phonegap
- Apache Callback
- Apache Cordova
Source: http://phonegap.com/2012/03/19/phonegap-cordova-and-what%E2%80%99s-in-a-name/

29. Source: http://phonegap.com/about/features

30. 1

31. 2

32. 3

33. Gotchas
Future OS upgrades might break your
Phonegap application.

34. Gotchas
UX will differ from native applications.
After all, your app runs in a web browser.

35. Gotchas
Debugging is pretty hard.
- You have the console object...
- ... but cannot list object properties
with a single statement
- Remote debugging is
the solution