Introducing PhoneGap

The hybrid framework for building smartphone application

Compiled by Trieu Nguyen @ tantrieuf31@gmail.com

Problem

Solution

A Set of templates for building native iOS, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, and WebOS using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Pros & ConsHere are the pros of PhoneGap framework:

● Can use our current authoring tools (E.g: Photoshop for doing mockup)● Can use our current web design and development skills.● The development cycle is fast.● Can access the all cool hardware features of phone. (Using JavaScript -

ObjectiveC Bridge)● Good performance for model iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, and iPad.● Mixing both native iOS view and webview.● Clean code, usability, flexible and maintainable.

Some cons:● It can be difficult to achieve sophisticated UI effects.●Must learning HTML5 and design for smartphone.●Complex games, intensive graphics. Use OpenGL for that, not PhoneGap.● For slower phones (not iPhone, not Nexus One, Droid, not Xperia X10),

PhoneGap apps using the latest interactive Google Maps APIs tend to be slow. Static maps OK, though.

Native vs Hybrid

This diagram depicts the major differences between mulitple native and hybrid application development

phonegap License

How PhoneGap Works

Cross-Platform Stack

Phonegap Core APIs Plugin APIs

The project implementationWe will implement this

Core APIs - What we can reuse from Phonegap framework

The general architecture

View: is the common for both platform iOS + Android.This solution is recommended for Multi-Platform Smartphone App Development

How Phonegap use MVC pattern

Introducing jQtouch http://www.jqtouch.com/

Case study

The anatomy of project in XCode IDE

1) Interface JavaScript: the hub for messaging from WebView to Obj-C Services. Every DOM node which is got the event from user, and transfer the message to local services.2) The standard icons for Tab Bar and 3) Images for App, see more details here: Creating Custom Icons and Images4) Themes for App: http://code.google.com/p/jqtouch/w/list5) The AppManager group: the logical folder for all sources that manage the data between local App and Web Services.

More resourcesGet started: http://www.phonegap.com/start

My noteshttps://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1pn6gd7k77pzM0AgJLLJYrgxVPRBfvYAKKvkNXU1nchc

From slidesharehttp://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=phonegap

Official Document:http://wiki.phonegap.comhttp://www.phonegap.com/docs

Phonegap source code:https://github.com/phonegap

About the project "Tele-radiology"Step 1: http://www.phonegap.com/startStep 2: http://jquerymobile.com/ or http://www.jqtouch.com/Step 3: A simple project http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4074962/TeleRadiologyiPad.zip

Step 4: Check it out https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=14P1H1pDbOBIhynUgGt5jQLkByRVveuxf6dmXTXIED_8Step 5: http://www.clearcanvas.ca/dnn/Portals/0/ClearCanvasFiles/Documentation/DevelopersGuide/2_0_SP1/

The concept from Infomedica

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The anatomy of UI screen (using jQueryMobile)