Greater Atlanta Software Symposium
September 24 - 26, 2010 - Atlanta, GA
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Easy mobile development (IPhone, Android, Palm Pre, Blackberry) without native code
So you have a great idea for an IPhone app, you've tried learning Objective-C, but it's just too hard. What about those other new platforms like Palm Pre and Android? Who wants to write the same app three times? Four times if you count Blackberry! Fear not, there is a much easier way for you to develop on the IPhone. Using a development style called "hybrid mobile applications" you can write apps for IPhone and other platforms using stuff you already know: HTML, CSS and Javascript. In this course, we'll go over the basics for hybrid development
This course outlines the basics of hybrid development. We'll cover the pro's and con's of this approach over writing native code for each specific mobile phone platform. Then we'll build an app and deploy it to an IPhone, all in the course of 90 mins - using simple technologies you already know: HTML, CSS, Javascript and JQuery. This isn't a webapp per se - it looks and feels and deploys just like a native app. You publish it to the App Store and people have to download & install it just like any other app.
About Pratik Patel
Pratik Patel is the CTO of Atlanta based TripLingo (http://www.triplingo.com/). He wrote the first book on 'enterprise Java' in 1996, "Java Database Programming with JDBC." He has also spoken at various conferences and participates in several local tech groups and startup groups. He's in the startup world now and hacks iOS, Android, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Rails, and ..... well everything except Perl.
Pratik's specialty is in large-scale applications for mission-critical and mobile applications use. He has designed and built applications in the retail, health care, financial services, and telecoms sectors. Pratik holds a master's in Biomedical Engineering from UNC, has worked in places such as New York, London, and Hong Kong, and currently lives in Atlanta, GA.
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