Where to start

[tramuntanal]

Hi all,
I'm new to this very interesting project. I'm so new that I can't find
how to start developing!
I mean on the wiki's main page I can only see specific sections for
iPhone, Android, Blackberry,... but PhoneGap is meant to be an
abstraction development framework to avoid platform dependant
development, isn't it?

Am I missing something? where should I go for an easy start?

[Curtis Jones]

If your main interest is the iPhone, I started with a book that took
me from A to Z. It is not a long book at all, and I was up and going
pronto.

You can see the online version here:

http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/ch01.html

The chapter that deals specifically with phonegap is:

http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/ch07.html

I ended up purchasing the e-book from O'Reilly. If you are pretty
familiar with mobile site development for iPhone, then you can work
through the first chapters pretty quickly.

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Curtis

[Jon Hinderliter]

I agree with Curtis.

 

I read this book over Thanksgiving and am now in final approval stage with my company for an app, so I can release it to Apple.

 

Great read. I would however recommend you build your page with only your html first then test it in the SDK before adding any of the "animation/JQTouch" elements.

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[jabone]

I am in the same boat as the original author of this post. The
O'Reilly book is good.

Yes I am interested in iPhone, but I am also interested in BB, WinMo,
and all of the other platforms that Phone Gap says it can handle. Is
there a high level(or any level) document that discusses write once
deploy any device platform for phoneGap?

Thanks,

JAB

[Ed]

I second that - I can't ignore Windows Mobile either. I love the idea
of having one framework and hope you guys will support it as well. I
think I remember the video mentioning that Windows Mobile will be
supported at some point - if this is true I am all in :)

Thanks,
Ed

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[tramuntanal]

First of all thank you for your replies,
I guess I misunderstood the presentation video. What I have is a little application developed in j2me (which I'm not selling, just a prototype) and would like to migrate it to smartphones and thus introduce me to this world.
It happens that Java is not a standard in the smartphone world at least it doesn't even exist on the most prominent platform, the iPhone. Thus, I was looking for a framework to facilitate development on all platforms.
PhoneGap is not a good platform for me as one of the requisites of my application is to be able to work offline.
What I thought PhoneGap is exists and is the Rhomobile framework. The problem is that is not free for non free apps.
Anyway, PhoneGap seems an interesting framework, good work!

2009/12/22 Curtis Jones <cur...@techstrategists.com>

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[Jesse MacFadyen]

Many phonegap apps work offline, that should not be an issue. Phonegap does not depend a network connection at all. 

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[tramuntanal]

Hi all,

2010/1/4 Jesse MacFadyen <jesse.m...@nitobi.com>

Many phonegap apps work offline, that should not be an issue. Phonegap does not depend a network connection at all. 

Having started to read
http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/index.html
and
http://phonegap.pbworks.com/Getting+Started+with+PhoneGap+%28iPhone%29

I can understand that an app may work offline because you bundle HTML pages on your app. But this is all static content. Where should I implement business logic?? where should my controllers be? what language should I use to develop an offline app with PhoneGap? javascript?

My target devices are Android and iPhone; and if it doesn't require much more work blackberry and nokia.
So where should I start for developing an offline app for Android and IPhone?

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Thanks!

[Jesse MacFadyen]

Yeah, you write your app in JavaScript. 

Regarding controllers, think of it as a client app, and not a web app. Your app will use HTML/css for it's UI. 

There are also MFC frameworks out there for JS, if you want to start with some scafffolding. 

Cheers,

  Jesse

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[Jay Van Vark]

I have been an iPhone SDK guy for some time now... I have done javascript/css work on a "fix it" basis for clients for some time -- so all text editor tools...

If you were all getting started with a new app -- intending to use jQuery/JQTouch -- is there a great/good design tool/IDE that you would suggest...?

Dashcode looks great on the Mac, but not sure it will fold into this structure just right so I can use things for the cross platform advantages of PhoneGap...

Thoughts?

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