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Learn to Build Mobile Applications with HTML, CSS and JavaScript at PhoneGap Training Session with Nitobi Software

Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Vancouver, BC�September 8, 2009� Nitobi Inc., creators of the ground-breaking PhoneGap mobile application development framework, will teach web developers how to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of core features of the iPhone, Android and Blackberry. PhoneGap training workshops for web developers are being held in Vancouver on October 15, 2009 and New York on November 20, 2009.

Mobile applications are the new Shangri La for software development shops. This summer, the popular tech blog Engadget reported that more than 1.5 billion iPhone applications had been downloaded and there are now more than 65,000 apps in the iTunes store. Clearly, there's an enormous market for mobile applications. Out of the growing demand for mobile apps came PhoneGap, a ground-breaking mobile application development framework that enables developers to create apps using popular and ubiquitous HTML and JavaScript instead of difficult, sometimes obscure programming languages, like Objective-C.

Created at iPhoneDevCamp 2008 by Nitobi, PhoneGap is an open source initiative for bringing native device capabilities to mobile browsers. PhoneGap apps are authored in HTML and JavaScript, but still take advantage of features like geolocation, camera, vibration, local storage and sound.

PhoneGap gained widespread recognition in April when the project won the LaunchPad competition at Web 2.0 Expo. Since then, hundreds of PhoneGap applications have been built and submitted to the Apple app store including, the Blok-Buster game, Coovents for New York happy hour listings and Roadtrippr for finding cool spots to visit no matter where you are.

"Building apps on different mobile platforms is hard and time consuming," said Andre Charland, CEO of Nitobi. "We designed PhoneGap for the large group of developers out there who know how to write for standard languages, like JavaScript and HTML, and who don't have the time or inclination to learn new languages, like Objective-C. They can use PhoneGap to write an app that will work on many different phones."

At the end of the training session, attendees will know how to:

• Set up a development environment
• Compile for multiple platforms
• Run code in an emulator
• Debug HTML and JavaScript
• Access native APIs, including location, camera, accelerometer, contacts, and more via JavaScript
• Optimize JavaScript for mobile devices
• Build a mobile application that runs offline
• Use CSS transitions, animations and transforms to create native looking interfaces
• Use the Canvas for advanced graphics
• Use mobile JavaScript libraries, such as XUI and Dashcode to build mobile applications faster.

Event Details

Vancouver, BC on October 15, 2009
Location: UBC Robson Square
800 Robson St., Room C225
9 am - 5 pm
Registration Cost: $499 CAD
Register now

New York, NY on November 20, 2009
Location: TBD
9 am - 5 pm
Registration Cost: $499 USD
Register now

For more information about PhoneGap, visit www.phonegap.com.

About Nitobi Inc.

Nitobi Inc. (http://www.nitobi.com) has been creating web-based software components and enterprise solutions for customers around the globe since 1997. Nitobi uses the latest technologies like Ajax, Flash, Flex, Ruby, .NET and AIR to build usable and effective rich Internet applications. Nitobi's customers include Bank of America, Time Warner, KBR and NASA. Nitobi is a member of the OpenAJAX Alliance and authored a book on Ajax entitled "Enterprise Ajax" published by Prentice Hall PTR.

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