Developing Native Mobile Applications using JavaScript

Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using common Web technologies (HTML, CSS and JavaScript). Apache Cordova offers a set of APIs that allow the mobile application developers to access mobile native functions such as (Audio, Camera, File, Battery, Contacts …etc) using JavaScript. Although there are many JavaScript mobile application frameworks, jQuery mobile is one of the best mobile web application frameworks which allows the web developers to develop web applications that are mobile friendly. This session illustrates how to use Apache Cordova with the combination of jQuery mobile in order to develop a native Android application and deploy on a real Android device. The demo application (“Memo” application) utilizes mobile native functions (Audio and Camera) using pure JavaScript.

Outline

• Current Challenges of mobile development.
• Apache Cordova overview.
• Apache Cordova Configuration.
• Apache Cordova API.
• jQuery Mobile Integration.
• [Demo] Developing and running “Memo" native application from scratch in Eclipse.