PhoneGap - Love the Web and Lose the SDK
summary
PhoneGap claims cross‑platform native access with actual results: >500,000 downloads since January, over 50 shipped apps from a 15‑person team, and support for eight mobile platforms (iOS, Android, webOS, Symbian, Windows Mobile, WP7 in progress, Meego, BlackBerry). Tooling includes build.phonegap.com hosted builds and an Android PhoneGap Dev Browser for testing; persistence experiments use Couch on mobile and Lawnchair. Known failures: moving device API specs, testing requires real devices, and browser‑level security is minimal.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00PhoneGap introduction
- 1:15Brian LeRoux and PhoneGap
- 2:18PhoneGap growth and platforms
- 4:06Web apps interim solution
- 7:16Device sensors and installable apps
- 9:01PhoneGap platform strategy
- 12:11Cross-platform challenges
- 13:15PhoneGap supported platforms
- 15:41Web tech augmentation
- 17:09HTML5 and device APIs
- 17:51Mobile web key concepts
- 18:53Testing PhoneGap apps
- 20:59PhoneGap security
- 21:41PhoneGap contributors
- 22:45CouchDB integration
- 23:49Mobile dev challenges
- 26:20Specs and compatibility
- 26:40PhoneGap development start
- 27:25Hosted builds
- 28:51Build.phonegap.com demo
- 30:18App Store Q&A
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