As more and more projects are requiring mobile applications, developers are faced with a wide range of options. AIR for mobile? PhoneGap? Titanium's Appcelerator? Sencha? Native? Which development environment makes sense? This session will explore the advantages and limitations of each of these environments from someone who has been in the mobile application development world for over 4 years. Get a clear picture of what these technologies can offer for your mobile development needs.

1. Choosing the Right Mobile
Development Platform (Part 3)
@ChrisGriffith

3. What is PhoneGap
Application container that allows you to build
natively installed apps using HTML, CSS & JavaScript

4. What platforms support PhoneGap

5. Building it
phonegap.com/start

6. Building it
build.phonegap.com

7. Building it

8. Device Access
Accelerometer File
Camera Geolocation
Capture Media
Compass Notification
Connection Storage
Contacts
Device Information

9. Beyond the mobile web
PhoneGap is extensible with a “native
plugin” model that enables you to write
your own native logic to access via
JavaScript.
There are lots of open source plugins at
https://github.com/phonegap/phonega
p-plugins
Learn more at
http://wiki.phonegap.com/w/page/3675
2779/ PhoneGap%20Plugins

10. iOS

11. Android

12. This presentation continues in part 4