Sessions at Over the Air 2012 about JavaScript on Friday 1st June

Developers seeking a performance “edge” to their mobile map apps have long been stymied by the general constraints of html5 and by the availability of APIs that enable true differentiation. Now, MH5, Nokia’s Maps Framework for Mobile HMTL5, offers an advanced mapping framework that pushes HTML5 to its limits. It's designed for fast, lightweight creation of location-based mobile web apps. The maps application built on top of this framework is available on m.maps.nokia.com for mobile WebKit browsers.

Rigorously optimized for mobile, extremely fast and compact, MH5 enables smooth canvas map rendering and transitions and features that no one else has—like offline tile storage for failsafe user experiences and real-time traffic.

You can easily develop your own native-like mobile web applications that benefit from using Nokia’s maps, search, routing, and places services, just like Nokia HTML5 Maps. A headful API enables rich, ready to go UI components to get your app up and running.

Nokia Location & Commerce engineers Bernd Mrohs and Thomas Bielagk will provide a sneak peek of this exciting new Framework, now in open beta. Head of Nokia L&C’s Mobile HTML5 Framework, Bernd is expert in JavaScript/HTML5 as well as in the creation of native apps for mobile devices. Thomas is a key MH5 developer.

In summary: We will build blazing fast mobile HTML5 Maps apps. Let's create the next billion-dollar Location Based Services that run cross-platform. Taking HTML5 to its limits!

The open mobile revolution is upon us! Thanks to HTML5 and open web standards, mobile web apps can compete head to head with native applications by using features such as geolocation, offline caching, web storage, canvas and CSS3 transitions among many others.
In this session we will cover the basics of mobile web apps creation, identifying the most effective HTML5 features for mobile platforms and examining their compatibility with different devices. We will also talk about the current and future opportunities for distributing and monetizing your apps. Whether you are a web developer looking for a way to “go mobile”, or you are interested in the mobile web apps market, this session is for you.

Developing interactive and beautiful apps and websites has been difficult and limited in the past - if you wanted to go fancy, Adobe® Flash® was the only way to go. With Bikeshed, an open-source JavaScript® API, you now can create stunning content similar to Adobe Flash, while working with open standards and tools you know. In this talk you will get deep insight on how to use Bikeshed and how you can create content using Adobe Flash and then export it to JavaScript and Bikeshed code. We will then look into how you can use Bikeshed to create mobile apps and explore some of its great features, such as being render and environment agnostic so that you can target the whole spectrum of devices running a browser. After this talk you will have an good overview of Bikeshed’s intuitive and simple JavaScript API and you will be able to start writing beautiful apps in minutes.