Cross Platform Mobile Technologies

PUNE MOBILE DEVELOPERS

CROSS PLATFORM MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES

14th September, 2013

AGENDA

Introduction and Icebreaker Technology Presentations

Mobile JSF Titanium Kony MoSync

Open Discussion Concluding Address Networking and Refreshments

INTRODUCTION

Started as mobile community in Talentica last year.

Open to anybody who is interested in mobile development

Share our experiences in mobile development space.

Increase awareness of fast growing mobile technologies among Developers

ICE-BREAKER – 1

Android vs iOS vs Windows vs others ?

ICE-BREAKER – 1

ICE-BREAKER – 2

How manyApps do you have?

ICE-BREAKER – 2

Android - 53iPhone - 83

CROSS PLATFORM TECHNOLOGIES

Solution for growing number of mobile operating systems and device specifications.

Business impact – Short time to market and reduced development costs

Future proof – Application portability to new OS

Single technology expertise – No need to have 4 different skills to develop on different OS.

MOBILE WEB - JSFSTOCK MARKET

Team Members:1. Smrutiranjan Sahu2. Shreyash Thakare

PLATFORM OVERVIEW

Java server faces(JSF) is a server side user interface component framework for Java technology-based web applications

Used to create server side applications which run on browsers.

Offers lots of re-useable code, MVC for web applications, clean separation of roles, built in AJAX capabilities and has huge vendor and industry support.

Primefaces is a JSF based framework that provides rich UI components making developers life easier

PrimeFaces Mobile is a UI kit to create JSF web applications optimized for mobile devices.

Powered by jQuery Mobile with PrimeFaces extensions, various platforms such as iPhone, Android, Palm, Blackberry, Windows Mobile are supported.

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

Eclipse JSF (Primefaces Mobile), Prime Push Spring, Maven (optional)

PLATFORM PROS & CONS

Apps that run on a mobile browser and require rich UI components could use this framework.

Easy to learn. Just one jar with no dependencies and nothing

else to configure. Various themes available as well as custom

themes are possible.

Issues with integrating custom css. Paid support No clear distinction between desktop & mobile

components.(Need trial & error approach)

COMPATIBILITIES WITH MOBILE OS

Support same as JQuery Mobile. Works on almost all the latest mobile

browsers except for old phone browsers.

APPLICATION DEMO 1

APPLICATION DEMO 2

ISSUES FACED

Displaying Date/Time in OHLC chart. Auto resizing chart on orientation

change. Formatting values inside list. CSS issue in Autosuggest, Table.

TITANIUM APPCELERATORRSS FEED APP

Team Members:1. Ajay Chawda2. Samarth Gahire3. Manish Zope4. Deepish Adwani

PLATFORM OVERVIEW

Developed and maintained by Appcelerator inc.

A cross platform javascript based framework.

Easy access to native os and hardware features.

Modular and extensible architecture Growing developer community (5L+

Developers) It's FREE


Native SDK should be installed. Titanium Studio (IDE) (or Aptana

eclipse plugin can be used). Installed Titanium studio on Windows

XP, Windows 7 and Ubuntu. (Support also available for MAC)

Tested the app on emulator and device both.



Android IOS Blackberry Tizen

ALLOY FRAMEWORK

Alloy - Powerful MVC i.e UI and app logic Alloy is built on Node.js, available on npm and

integrated with Titanium Studio. The goal is to make Titanium development

easier, faster and more scalable To use Alloy, node.js and Node.ACS should be

installed. You can use XML for views and JSON for styling

(tss). Reusable widgets and templates Built-in Backbone.js (which is base of MVC which

have rich model and collection APIs) and Underscore.js support which provides variety of utility functions like array and iterative helpers.


Rapid prototyping Web-oriented / Javascript Cross-platform Growing community

Increasing complexity Toolkit pain Bulky build Lot of if else cases to be handled

APPLICATION DEMO

APPLICATION DEMO

APPLICATION DEMO

ISSUES FACED

Debugging issue. Faced some bugs in representing the

data, but quickly figured out the workaround as support is easily available.

Code maintainability is an issue for titanium. But same can be overcome by using Alloy framework.

We need to figure out workarounds for the bugs with the titanium new releases

KONYPEOPLE SEARCH APP

Team Members:1. Avinash2. Rohit

KONY

Birth- 2007 with “Write once and Run everywhere” motto.

Eclipse IDE with plugins for development and debugging.

Develop native and HTML5 web apps. JavaScript based. Easily integrated with back-end systems. Support for third party libraries.

PLATFORM- 10,000 FEET OVERVIEW(INTERFACE DESIGN)

PLATFORM- 10,000 FEET OVERVIEW(BUSINESS LOGIC A.K.A. CODING)

PLATFORM- 10,000 FEET OVERVIEW(GOODIES)

PLATFORM- 10,000 FEET OVERVIEW(WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT)

ENTERPRISE APPS

Mobile App Kony

Server

Backend Server

(Your Web-page, or if

you run enterprise

server)

PLATFORM- AS WE KNOW NOW.

Support for all popular platforms (Android, iOS, BB, Win8, Desktop Browser).

Cross-platform API as well as Platform-Specific API.

Foreign Function Interface for third-party libraies like :barcode scanning, augmented reality, diagnostic sensors, NFC functions, pen-based features, accessing non-UI libraries, embedded third party UI widgets (i.e. sencha or jquery mobile).

Enterprise focus (Kony Server Bundled): Kony Server for easy backend integration. Web Services(REST, SOAP, JSON), ERM/CRP(SAP, Seibel etc).

PROS & CONS

Comprehensive set of UI Widgets and API supported by rich documentation.

Develop once or develop separate for platforms. Your choice.

Native code generation for platforms in addition to Single Page Application for Mobile/Desktop browsers.

HTML-scrapping and Web services integration really simple to develop.

Support for all the latest platform releases.

Resource Hungry IDE. Slow build-time for BB. It takes forever to build and run. No drawing APIs. You can NOT develop cool games. Bugs in IDE plugins and SPA plugins. No Demo versions for download. Need to buy it or request

for evaluation.

APPLICATION DEMO

Used Rest services exposed by pipl.com Kony’s XHR API used for service call and

Kony’s Segment Widget aka List View to present data.

MOSYNCTMDB APP

Team Members:1. Chetan Verma2. Sudhir Naik

PLATFORM OVERVIEW

Free and open source SDK for mobile applications

Produces native mobile applications for multiple platforms

Can use C/C++ and/or HTML5/JavaScript Targeted for both web developers and PC/Mac

desktop developers Supports Android 2.x-4.x, iOS, Windows Mobile

Classic, Windows Phone, Symbian S60, Java Mobile and the Moblin platform.

Available for Windows and Mac OS Extensive documentation available First version was launched in early 2005!


MoSync SDK

Targeted at both C++ and HTML5/JS development

Integrated with the Eclipse development environment

Supported on MS Windows and Mac OS X(Linux users can use VirtualBox OSE)

Very easy to setup! ADT required to develop Android Apps


MoSync Reload

Targeted exclusively at HTML5/JavaScript development

Web based JavaScript Workbench that helps to speed-up and simplify the development of the JavaScript code

Instantly see the result on any number of devices or emulators

Requires ‘Reload Client’ to be installed on test devices

Requires Mosync SDK to compile native applications for various platforms



Can use C++ or HTML5/JavaScript or combination of both – Wormhole technology

Supports STL Different methods for designing user interface Fast UI development using Mosync Reload Supports OpenGL Compiles native applications Suitable for all kind of applications Commercial license and an open source GPL-2 license Extensive online documentation and help available

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No Debugger for NativeUI Applications JavaScript and C++ bridge is function based

and not very intuitive Native UI applications built using HTML5 may

not be efficient on some platforms Some features not implemented or not

efficient on all platforms.


General support for most featuresExperimental implementations of some features, but not fully testedBackward compatibility only; no support for this release's new features or not yet tested

More details @ http://www.mosync.com/widepage/feature-platform-support

Platform Versions

Android 2.2 2.3.3 3.x.x 4.x

Blackberry 4.x 5.x 6.x 7.x

iOS 5.1.x 6.0.x 6.1.x

Java ME MIDP 2.x 3.0

Moblin 2.x

Symbian S60 2nd S60 3rd S60 5th Symbian^3 Anna Belle

Windows Mobile 2003 5.x 6.0 6.1 6.5

Windows Phone 7.5 7.8 8

APPLICATION DEMO

themoviedb.org is a free and community maintained movie database. TMDB is used by many popular media centers like XBMC, Plex, MythTV and MediaPortal.

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OPEN DISCUSSION