PhoneGap & Apache Cordova (Hybrid Mobile Development)

PhoneGap & Apache Cordova

• Usage: Hybrid mobile development using cross-platform app extensions mixing the native (i.e. iOS SDK platform WebViews) and web-side (i.e. embed Cordova-enabled Cleaver WebView using common JavaScript interface with a iOS Cordova plugin mapping to Objective-C service class) app components to streamline API access
• Hooks: Node.js framework (server-side JavaScript) with build process in Apache Cordova Command Line Interface (CLI) using interface server-side hook scripts to automatically install required plugins when developers check out updated versions of a project - Thanks Holly Schinsky!

Challenges

• User Interface animations and Collection Views
• Text-to-speech API
• Telephony integration (iPod library access, podcasts)
• NSURLSession (thanks Tuts+) and NSXMLParser (RSS reader)
• OAuth API
• Cocoapods and Cocoadocs (equivalent of Ruby Gems for native iOS development)
• HockeyApp
• Twoodo beta
• COO responsibilities
• Teamtreehouse.com Photo Browser app training 
• iOS8 beta 3
• AWS Essential Training
• AWS iOS SDK
• Brainstorming a Screencast idea for Tuts+!

Purchases

• RubyMotion Subscription to MotionInMotion.tv

Links

• PhoneGap Setup
• PhoneGap Documentation
• Apache Cordova Platform and CLI
• Apache Cordova CLI Commands
• Apache Cordova Plugins Registry
• Grunt