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Phonegap introductionJosep RocaAntti Vuorela
Android Aalto Community 2012
Too many platforms
Time...
Money...
App development is tedious
Different languages, frameworks, tools, capabilities...
Adding new features... fixing bugs for every platform...?
Do we need apps?
Cannot access hardware
- Camera- Local filesystem- Accelerometer- Contacts- Media- ...
- Phonegap - Apache Callback - Apache Cordova
Source: http://phonegap.com/2012/03/19/phonegap-cordova-and-what%E2%80%99s-in-a-name/
Beware the name
Source: http://phonegap.com/about/features
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Gotchas
Future OS upgrades might break your Phonegap application.
Gotchas
UX will differ from native applications.After all, your app runs in a web browser.
Gotchas
Debugging is pretty hard.- You have the console object...- ... but cannot list object properties
with a single statement - Remote debugging is the solution
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