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.

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Nitobi Software
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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

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CompleteUI PhoneGap

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interwebs
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its more than a serious tube

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The mobile web opportunity

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1 Billion television sets worldwide. 2 Billion web enabled mobile devices.

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The situation room

Platform
iPhone Android Blackberry Windows Mobile Nokia Palm

Language
Objective C Java (Dalvik VM) Java (Who knows.) .NET and/or C++ C++, Java, Flash Lite, Web tech HTML. CSS. JavaScript.

Awesome
Not so much. Ok. Bad scene. Nuff said. Sorta cool right? Exactly.

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Weve seen this before...

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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.

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Platforms dont scale. This internet thing does. internets? ftw! LULZ

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In the beginning...
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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
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The purpose of PhoneGap is for PhoneGap to cease to exist.

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So.. what?
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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
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iPhone Android Blackberry

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PhoneGap soon
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iPhone Android Blackberry Nokia Windows Mobile Palm Pre

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Site specific browsers

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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
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Apple Google Android Blackberry Windows Mobile (skymarket) Nokia (ovi) Palm Nintendo (this is awesome btw)
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How do you make money?

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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

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Open GL Building a browser Sub standard devices

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HTML 5
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(sorta)

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Code. Finally.
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lets get serious.

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* this one is for you tom ** thx for the graphic alexei Brian LeRoux / Nitobi Software / PhoneGap

Geolocation

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Accelerometer

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Contacts

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Vibration
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heh.

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Make some noise

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phone beep events phone lights blinky any audio most video

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PhoneGap in the wild

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

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Techniques
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PhoneGap apps are just web apps. HTML CSS JS ...and you.

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Webkit is winning
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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
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WTF!!! Totally got overshadowed by the SDK Amazing iPhone only.

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

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Magic Framework
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looks hot jQuery based under dev

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jqTouch
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beautiful uis jQuery based fast (once it loads)

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

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Roll your own?

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Simplest thing that could possibly work. Progressively enhance. Repeat.

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Quick note on testing..

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JSSpec Firebug light The devices themselves. (emulators do not emulate the execution times)

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PhoneGap in the future

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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
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Nokia Windows mobile Palm Pre Blackberry pls pls wtf pls Nintendo DS?

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An open toolchain
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gcc, make, etc

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PhoneGap Simulator
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emulator simulator stimulator ..wait, what?

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New interfaces
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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
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http://phonegap.com http://phonegap.pbwiki.com http://groups.google.com/group/ phonegap twitter. etc.

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Get involved
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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!

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

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