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+Mobile Cross-platform Development Frameworks
+Type: Lecture/presentation
+Category: Engineering/development
+Topic: Networking/Internals/Implementation choices
+Audience: Android application developers
+Duration: 30 minute presentation
+
+Author and Speaker
+------------------
+Michael Schloh von Bennewitz
+Software Engineer, Europalab Networks
+web: http://michael.schloh.com/
+email: michael@schloh.com
+isdn: +49(89)44239885
+voip: sips:michael@schloh.com
+xmpp: MSvB
+
+Biography
+---------
+Michael Schloh von Bennewitz is a computer scientist specializing in
+network software, mobile computing, and client server design. He speaks
+at technical events every year. In 2011 he gave two presentations on
+MeeGo to the Opensource Treffen as well as presentations on LDAP
+integration strategies and the Qt library build process to fellow
+developers at the Nokia Developer Summit in Berlin. His speaking style
+is humerous, using gestures and good eye contact. He walks about the
+room and writes presentations in SVG or HTML5.
+
+Abstract
+--------
+With cross-platform mobile development frameworks like jQuery, Dojo, and
+Sencha, developers enjoy the ability to write an application for several
+APIs. Particularly of benefit to Android developers is the smooth
+transition between API versions as well as reduced porting work.
+
+Many developers write Java code strictly for the Android OS. It may
+surprise them to know that for many applications a similar workload
+writing HTML code results in a functionally similar APK package.
+Concrete benefits are considered as well as limits to this strategy.
+Requirements, implementation choices, and distribution using Phonegap
+are considered.
+
+The audience consists of developers familiar with the traditional
+development lifecycle of Android applications. Attendants expect a
+clearly defined workflow of using trendy cross-platform frameworks and
+pro and contra criteria for considering them along with abstract proof
+(provided in a demonstration) of concept.
+
+The Android community stands to benefit from being informed about
+current trends in cross-platform mobile development frameworks as many
+developers suffer the stumbling block of porting and supporting
+applications.
+
+Please see the file attachment for a lecture outline.
+
+Main chapters (15 minutes)
+--------------------------
+  Concepts
+    Advantage of cross platform development
+    Advantage of (mostly) standardized API
+    Work flow of platform dependent development
+    Work flow of cross platform development
+    Architecture of HTML5/CSS3/Javascript app
+      Supporting of runtime processes
+
+  Frameworks
+    JQuery Mobile [1]
+    Sencha Touch [2]
+    Dojo Toolkit [3]
+    Phonegap Toolkit [4]
+    Common requirements
+
+  Constraints
+    Performance
+    Hardware
+    API
+
+  Case studies
+    Well known mobile apps
+
+Demonstration (10 minutes)
+--------------------------
+  Hello world in HTML5 for browser
+  Package to app manually
+  Use Phonegap to prepare distribution
+  Extend hello world to process user input
+    Using jQuery Mobile
+    Using Sencha Touch
+    Using Dojo Toolkit
+  Automated repackaging
+  Submit to market
+
+Questions (5 minutes)
+---------------------
+  Anticipated questions
+    What is a general rule when considering cross-platform frameworks?
+    Where do you find a list of supported features for a given framework?
+
+Relevant jokes about...
+-----------------------
+  Android and Linux
+  Engineers and developers
+
+Glossary
+--------
+  Application Programming Interface (API)
+  Software Development Kit (SDK)
+  Framework
+  World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
+  Structured Vector Graphics (SVG)
+  Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
+  Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
+  Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)
+  JavaScript - Casual name for the ECMAScript language, prevelant in
+    client-side web applications and standardized in ISO/IEC 16262.
+  International Organization for Standards (ISO)
+  Ecma International
+
+Errata
+------
+  Errata here.
+
+Lecture materials
+-----------------
+This lecture is developed on a public source code revision management
+system [6]. It is (or will be) published on a public file server [7].
+
+Technical requirements
+----------------------
+A WLAN connection (for remote slide advancement,) internet connectivity
+(for demonstration purposes,) and a whiteboard (to sketch diagrams) are
+needed for this presentation.
+
+Links and notes
+---------------
+  [1] http://jquerymobile.com/
+  [2] http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/
+  [3] http://dojotoolkit.org/
+  [4] http://phonegap.com/
+  [5] http://scm.europalab.com/lectures/
+  [6] ftp://ftp.europalab.com/pub/doc/lect/