Lecture Sheets: mobixplat/androidxplat.txt@768787695807

     1 Mobile Cross-platform Development Frameworks

     2 Type: Lecture/presentation

     3 Category: Engineering/development

     4 Topic: Networking/Internals/Implementation choices

     5 Audience: Android application developers

     6 Duration: 30 minute presentation

     8 Author and Speaker

     9 ------------------

    10 Michael Schloh von Bennewitz

    11 Software Engineer, Europalab Networks

    12 web: http://michael.schloh.com/

    13 email: michael@schloh.com

    14 isdn: +49(89)44239885

    15 voip: sips:michael@schloh.com

    16 xmpp: MSvB

    18 Biography

    19 ---------

    20 Michael Schloh von Bennewitz is a computer scientist specializing in

    21 network software, mobile computing, and client server design. He speaks

    22 at technical events every year. In 2011 he gave two presentations on

    23 MeeGo to the Opensource Treffen as well as presentations on LDAP

    24 integration strategies and the Qt library build process to fellow

    25 developers at the Nokia Developer Summit in Berlin. His speaking style

    26 is humerous, using gestures and good eye contact. He walks about the

    27 room and writes presentations in SVG or HTML5.

    29 Abstract

    30 --------

    31 With cross-platform mobile development frameworks like jQuery, Dojo, and

    32 Sencha, developers enjoy the ability to write an application for several

    33 APIs. Particularly of benefit to Android developers is the smooth

    34 transition between API versions as well as reduced porting work.

    36 Many developers write Java code strictly for the Android OS. It may

    37 surprise them to know that for many applications a similar workload

    38 writing HTML code results in a functionally similar APK package.

    39 Concrete benefits are considered as well as limits to this strategy.

    40 Requirements, implementation choices, and distribution using Phonegap

    41 are considered.

    43 The audience consists of developers familiar with the traditional

    44 development lifecycle of Android applications. Attendants expect a

    45 clearly defined workflow of using trendy cross-platform frameworks and

    46 pro and contra criteria for considering them along with abstract proof

    47 (provided in a demonstration) of concept.

    49 The Android community stands to benefit from being informed about

    50 current trends in cross-platform mobile development frameworks as many

    51 developers suffer the stumbling block of porting and supporting

    52 applications.

    54 Please see the file attachment for a lecture outline.

    56 Main chapters (15 minutes)

    57 --------------------------

    58   Concepts

    59     Portable development

    60     Standardized API

    61     Work flows

    62       Platform dependent development

    63       Cross platform development

    64     HTML5/CSS3/Javascript architecture

    65       Runtime process support

    67   Frameworks

    68     JQuery Mobile [1]

    69     Sencha Touch [2]

    70     Dojo Toolkit [3]

    71     Phonegap Toolkit [4]

    72     Common requirements

    74   Constraints

    75     Performance

    76     Hardware

    77     API

    79   Case studies

    80     Well known mobile apps

    82 Demonstration (10 minutes)

    83 --------------------------

    84   Hello world in HTML5 for browser

    85   Package to app manually

    86   Use Phonegap to prepare distribution

    87   Extend hello world to process user input

    88     Using jQuery Mobile

    89     Using Sencha Touch

    90     Using Dojo Toolkit

    91   Automated repackaging

    92   Submit to market

    94 Questions (5 minutes)

    95 ---------------------

    96   Anticipated questions

    97     What is a general rule when considering cross-platform frameworks?

    98     Where do you find a list of supported features for a given framework?

   100 Relevant jokes about...

   101 -----------------------

   102   Android and Linux

   103   Engineers and developers

   105 Glossary

   106 --------

   107   Application Programming Interface (API)

   108   Software Development Kit (SDK)

   109   Framework

   110   World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

   111   Structured Vector Graphics (SVG)

   112   Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

   113   Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

   114   Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)

   115   JavaScript - Casual name for the ECMAScript language, prevelant in

   116     client-side web applications and standardized in ISO/IEC 16262.

   117   International Organization for Standards (ISO)

   118   Ecma International

   120 Errata

   121 ------

   122   Errata here.

   124 Lecture materials

   125 -----------------

   126 This lecture is developed on a public source code revision management

   127 system [6]. It is (or will be) published on a public file server [7].

   129 Technical requirements

   130 ----------------------

   131 A WLAN connection (for remote slide advancement,) internet connectivity

   132 (for demonstration purposes,) and a whiteboard (to sketch diagrams) are

   133 needed for this presentation.

   135 Links and notes

   136 ---------------

   137   [1] http://jquerymobile.com/

   138   [2] http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/

   139   [3] http://dojotoolkit.org/

   140   [4] http://phonegap.com/

   141   [5] http://scm.europalab.com/lectures/

   142   [6] ftp://ftp.europalab.com/pub/doc/lect/

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