The objective of cross-platform frameworks is to allow you to write applications once and have it run on multiple platforms. Want to build an iPhone app that will also run on Android? Have a customer turn round and want their Android app to run on Windows Phone? No problem.

On Matthew Baxter-Reynolds' three-day PhoneGap/Apache Cordova course you will look at two different yet complimentary technologies for cross- platform mobile development. (Apache Cordova is the new name for PhoneGap. Adobe acquired PhoneGap from the original developers and gifted it to the Apache Software Foundation.)

Upon completion of this PhoneGap/Apache Cordova course, you will be able to build fully- functioning mobile Web applications using the framework, manage source code and handle platform tweaks, create “native like” experiences from a web application -- and much more!

The intention of this course is to take you through all of the features of PhoneGap, a popular cross-platform mobile development framework recently acquired by Adobe and donated into the Apache Software Foundation as Apache Cordova. PhoneGap runs natively on the device and gives users the full “native app” experience. As well as PhoneGap, the course will also take a detailed look at jQuery Mobile, a popular UI framework for mobile-adaptive websites.

Day 1
• Getting up and running
• Accessing native capabilities of the device
• Structuring source code and handling SCM
• Persisting data locally
• Building forms and communicating with the server

Day 2
• Network communication
• Managing source code and handling platform tweaks
• Using plug-ins
• Working with lists of data

Day 3
• Using jQuery Mobile with PhoneGap applications
• Presenting Lists of Data
• Handling Touch Events
• Packaging your apps