Lecture Sheets: mobixplat/androidxplat.txt@8b5e50e4968e

     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     Advantage of cross platform development

    60     Advantage of (mostly) standardized API

    61     Work flow of platform dependent development

    62     Work flow of cross platform development

    63     Architecture of HTML5/CSS3/Javascript app

    64       Supporting of runtime processes

    66   Frameworks

    67     JQuery Mobile [1]

    68     Sencha Touch [2]

    69     Dojo Toolkit [3]

    70     Phonegap Toolkit [4]

    71     Common requirements

    73   Constraints

    74     Performance

    75     Hardware

    76     API

    78   Case studies

    79     Well known mobile apps

    81 Demonstration (10 minutes)

    82 --------------------------

    83   Hello world in HTML5 for browser

    84   Package to app manually

    85   Use Phonegap to prepare distribution

    86   Extend hello world to process user input

    87     Using jQuery Mobile

    88     Using Sencha Touch

    89     Using Dojo Toolkit

    90   Automated repackaging

    91   Submit to market

    93 Questions (5 minutes)

    94 ---------------------

    95   Anticipated questions

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

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

    99 Relevant jokes about...

   100 -----------------------

   101   Android and Linux

   102   Engineers and developers

   104 Glossary

   105 --------

   106   Application Programming Interface (API)

   107   Software Development Kit (SDK)

   108   Framework

   109   World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

   110   Structured Vector Graphics (SVG)

   111   Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

   112   Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

   113   Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)

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

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

   116   International Organization for Standards (ISO)

   117   Ecma International

   119 Errata

   120 ------

   121   Errata here.

   123 Lecture materials

   124 -----------------

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

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

   128 Technical requirements

   129 ----------------------

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

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

   132 needed for this presentation.

   134 Links and notes

   135 ---------------

   136   [1] http://jquerymobile.com/

   137   [2] http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/

   138   [3] http://dojotoolkit.org/

   139   [4] http://phonegap.com/

   140   [5] http://scm.europalab.com/lectures/

   141   [6] ftp://ftp.europalab.com/pub/doc/lect/

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