Mastering PhoneGap for Complex Mobile App Development

Are you ready to take your PhoneGap apps to the next level? In this advanced mobile app development training workshop, you'll learn how to:

• Extend PhoneGap and work with plug-ins
• Dive deep into mobile JavaScript to build complex apps
• Work with XUI
• Take your PhoneGap apps offline
• Work with GitHub and contribute back to the PhoneGap project.

At the end of the PhoneGap Master Class, you will have all the knowledge you'll need to build complex, cross platform mobile apps with advanced GUIs and functionality using the PhoneGap open source framework.

Topics covered in the PhoneGap Master Class include:

• Tools you'll need to develop for iPhone, Blackberry, Android, WRT and Palm
• Keeping a tiny footprint, even for complex apps
• A walkthrough of XUI, including dom retrieval and manipulation
• Alternatives to XUI, including jQuery and Dojo
• Complex GUI development

Who Should Attend?

If you're a web developer, mobile developer, mobile designer or a project manager in charge of mobile development, then PhoneGap training is for you.

If you're a JavaScript and HTML expert, then PhoneGap provides the fastest, most effective way to add mobile application development to your roster, especially if you're building social networking applications, simple games and companion applications to websites.

Prerequisites

Ideally, developers will have already taken the basic PhoneGap training course, in-person or online. However, if you've already used PhoneGap and have expert JavaScript and HTML skills then you can register for the PhoneGap Master Class. Training sessions are instructor led, with  hands-on exercises. Students will need their own laptops and mobile phones to participate.

Students are encouraged to get a head start by downloading the appropriate mobile SDKs for each platform - SDKs and IDEs are cross-platform compatible, unless otherwise indicated:

• iPhone: Xcode and the iPhone SDK. Mac only*
• Android: Android SDK (1.6 recommended) and the Java SE Development Kit. Highly recommended: the Eclipse IDE and the ADT Android Eclipse Plug-in.
• Blackberry: Requires Eclipse 3.4 or 3.41 for Windows (please ensure you download the correct version) and the Java Eclipse plug-ins, including Component Packs v4.6.1 and v4.7. The Blackberry development environment can be quite challenging to set up - please see our tutorial for assistance. Windows only*
• Symbian: You can develop PhoneGap apps for Symbian without any external software, using Nokia's Web Runtime (WRT). However, Aptana Studio and the Nokia WRT plug-in are recommended to ease development. Further information is available in our Symbian tutorial.
• Palm: VirtualBox and the webOS SDK.