Enterprise Mobile Web Development
Robert Altland discusses what makes a great enterprise mobile application: types of apps, features, technologies and best practices.
Robert Altland discusses what makes a great enterprise mobile application: types of apps, features, technologies and best practices.
Dave Johnson introduces PhoneGap: how to write apps with it, the existing community, an API overview, extending PhoneGap, tooling, libraries, and an argument on web vs. native apps.
Josh Long and Roy Clarkson discuss developing native mobile applications for Android with Spring Android.
ARM is offering a community edition of their Development Studio 5, containing a debugger and a performance analyzer of Android native code.
Working with PhoneGap is getting easier: Plugins make PhoneGap more modular and extensible for developers. PhoneGap/Build is an online service for automatically building PhoneGap applications for different platforms. InfoQ talked to Nitobi's Brian LeRoux about the technical future of PhoneGap at Adobe and Apache.
appMobi wants to make mobile web applications more attractive by open sourcing several technologies: JavaScript Bridge API –a cross-platform API providing access to the hardware-, mobiUs Web App Browser –a browser that looks and behaves like a native application, and HTML5 Game Acceleration – a Canvas object that improves HTML5 speed for games.
Mozilla has started working on WebAPI, a set of APIs for accessing device functionality usually accessible only for native applications in an attempt to develop a cross platform solution that will enable developers to write web applications once for all mobile OSes.