I’ll teach the next mobile development course in PhoneGap.
The Haaga-Helia course Mobiilituotekehitys bus4tn008-2 will be in Finnish. The course seems to be fully booked already, but you can get a place if someone cancels. I’ll teach the course with Lili Aunimo.
PhoneGap
- Write your apps in HTML5 and Javascript
- Use GPS, accelerometer and other native APIs from Javascript.
- Same code compiles to iPhone and Android and midget platforms, like Windows Phone. (In the course, we’ll use Android.)
- Sell your apps on Android Market and iPhone App Store. Many apps selling already. For example, the BBC olympics app.
- PhoneGap (Cordova) is Free software under Apache 2.0 license.
- Adobe (Photoshop, Dreamweaver…) has bought Nitobi, the company behind PhoneGap.
In my tests, PhoneGap seemed easy to use once I got it installed. As usual, Hello World was the most difficult program.
Maybe PhoneGap makes writing simple apps simple (eg. the Boxing Clock).
I have released couple of apps too with PhoneGap.
This was the first one which is quite informative when you are in need of it, and also nice for students in Haaga-Helia! And it took me something like two hours to make it, including the time you prepare the material for publishing in Google Play.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=atkins.haaga.helia.ruokalista&hl=fi
Looks nice! Two hours for a published app is fast.
Nice addition to the Apps you did with native Android Java
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lennu.swifty&feature=more_from_developer