Cross-platform mobile apps in HTML5

Greg Roodt

Who am I?

• Open Source and Open Web fanboy
• Web and backend developer for over 5 years
• Currently doing freelance Android work (strumapp.com)
• Dabbled in iOS and Android development

Why mobile?

Why mobile?

Problems with current mobile landscape

Backwards!

What can we do?

Bet on Openness!

Open always wins in the end!

The Internet

Linux

Apache

Firefox

Eclipse

Chrome

Python

Ruby

Java

PHP

MySQL

jQuery

Developing mobile applications using HTML5

PhoneGap

• Based on Open Source Apache Cordova project.
• http://cordova.apache.org/

Demo

Interesting recent developments

• Firefox OS
• New head of Android from Chrome team

Other cross-platform frameworks

• Kivy (General purpose. Python)
• Corona SDK (General purpose. Lua)
• Unity (Games. C#, Javascript)
• Starling (Games. ActionScript)
• PlayScript (Games. ActionScript)
• Chrome packaged apps (Apps. Javascript)

Thanks!