PhoneGap: Bridging the Gap between Web Apps and Mobile Apps

PhoneGap (soon to be Apache Callback) is an established framework for building cross-platform mobile applications using just HTML5 and JavaScript … that still provides access to native features such as the camera, geolocation, notifications, and more.

PhoneGap (currently incubating as Apache Callback) is a framework to make it easy to build mobile apps without having to learn the underlying SDK (a subset of Java for Android, or Objective-C for iOS). PhoneGap also “fills the gaps” between how native features work across phones and platforms, making it easy to leverage those features. PhoneGap applications look and feel native, and can be distributed via each platform's app store.

This session is an introduction to PhoneGap, giving a feel for the basics of PhoneGap development.

About Howard Lewis Ship

Howard Lewis Ship is the original creator of the Apache Tapestry project, and is a noted expert on Java framework design and developer productivity. He has over twenty years of full-time software development under his belt, with over fifteen years of Java. He cut his teeth writing customer support software for Stratus Computer, but eventually traded PL/1 for Objective-C and NeXTSTEP before settling into Java.

Howard has been developing financial and e-commerce applications in 100% Clojure since 2012.

Howard currently works for Wal-Mart's Global E-Commerce division. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Suzanne, and his children, Jacob and Olivia.

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