Building Native Mobile Apps with PhoneGap and HTML5

In this hands-on workshop you’ll discover how to use your web development skills to build applications for mobile platforms including iPhone, Google Android, Blackberry and webOS. You will learn how to use PhoneGap, an open source mobile development framework, to create cross platform mobile applications with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Get the tools and experience you need to build app store ready mobile applications using just your web development steez.

In this workshop you will learn to:

• Set up your development environment
• Compile for multiple platforms
• Run code in an emulator
• Debug your HTML and JavaScript
• Access native APIs, including location, camera, accelerometer, contacts, and more via JavaScript
• Optimize your JavaScript for mobile devices
• Build a mobile application that runs offline, uses CSS transforms and leverages JS libraries like jQuery Mobile