A short presentation on PhoneGap from point of view of a person who never dealt with mobile apps development

1. What it actually is
by Markiyan Matsekh,
Developer @ Eleks Ltd

2. How have I met PhoneGap?

4. What is PhoneGap?
(as they say)

5. PhoneGap is an open source framework for
quickly building cross-platform mobile apps
using HTML5, Javascript and CSS.

6. Why was it created?

7. “The web solved cross platform”

8. “The ultimate purpose of PhoneGap is to cease to exist”

9. Why do people use it?

10. - No need to deal with Objective C, Java (and other disasters)
- Reuse knowledge of web technologies
- Write core application logic only once

12. How would you implement it?

13. js <> Objective C
js <> Java
js <> C#
js <> WAT?

15. Architecture

17. Installation

19. PhoneGap is just a framework.
All you need to “install” it is a language
specific library and piece of js code.
Most of the problems arise when
dealing with lots of platforms

20. Development

21. 1. Develop in browser
2. Apply to mobile
3. Fix bugs
4. Add device specific features
5. Test (on all platforms)

22. Debugging?

23. Deployment

24. AppStore & PhoneGap
“If you’re coming from the web, you need to
make sure that you give people an iOS app
experience, not a web experience.”

26. Now the bad side

27. It’s just not the same as in browser!

29. Can 1 tool handle these?

30. Instead of dealing with N
frameworks you only deal with N+1

31. So what PhoneGap actually is?

32. PhoneGap is a desperate hack for lazy web-
developers to avoid building mobile apps
the way they’re supposed to.

33. …although it is feasible in some scenarios…

35. So…