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Cross Platform Mobile Applications. By Rohit Ghatol Contact me – [email protected] [email protected]. Introduction. Rohit Ghatol Project Manager @ Synerzip Associate Architect @ QuickOffice Inc GTUG Manager Certified Scrum Master Corporate Trainer (Agile and Technical) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Cross Platform Mobile ApplicationsBy Rohit GhatolContact me – [email protected] [email protected]
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Introduction
Rohit Ghatol
•Project Manager @ Synerzip•Associate Architect @ QuickOffice Inc•GTUG Manager•Certified Scrum Master•Corporate Trainer (Agile and Technical)•Was part of OpenSocial at Google
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Topics• Overview• Understanding Mobile Apps• Cross Platform Mobile App Development
• Pure HTML/JavaScript – PhoneGap• Interpreted JavaScript – Titanium
• Native Mobile App Development• Hybrid Mobile App Development• Comparison between PhoneGap Vs Titanium• Conclusion• Q & A
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Overview
The process of developing Applications for various mobile platform using common source code with little or no change to the common source.
This presentation focuses on Comparing two frameworks each taking a different approach to solve the above problem.
We will Compare PhoneGap Vs Titanium .
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Understanding Mobile Apps
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Reaching Mobile Users
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1. Mobile Features
Complete Feature SetMostly Feature Sub Set
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2. Tablet Features
Complete Feature SetAlmost CompleteFeature Set
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3. User Interaction
Touch based
Traditional
Accelerometer
Compass
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e.g Layar Application
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4. Location aware
Location Aware and highly accurate
Can be Location Aware but approximate
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5. Sensors
Handy Camera and Voice Recording
Upcoming NFC (Near Field Communication) turning phone into Credit Card, Access Card, Business Card Exchanger
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e.g Shopping Applications
Scan a product’s barcode to know if it has the lowest price.
If not, then navigate to a store which has the lowest price
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6. Push Notifications
Push NotificationNotifying the User proactively
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Challenges in building Mobile Applications
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1. OS Fragmentation
Windows 7
FragmentationFragmentation
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2. Multiple Teams/Product
Windows 7
Multiple Teams/ProductsMultiple Teams/Products
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3. Uniform User Experience
Windows 7
Uniform User ExperienceUniform User Experience
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4. Feature Fragmentation
Feature FragmentationFeature Fragmentation
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Types of Mobile App Dev
1. Native Mobile Apps2. Cross Platform Mobile Apps3. Hybrid partly Native partly Cross Platform
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Native Mobile Apps
When To
• High Performance Apps
• Heavy on OS and Device Features
• Complex N/W comm.
• Canvas based Apps
• Only Few Platforms
When Not To• Performance is not the
main criteria
• More or less Replicates Web Apps with few device feature
• Standard Restful
• Widget based apps
• Many Platforms
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Cross Platform Mobile Apps
When To• Performance is not the
main criteria
• More or less Replicates Web Apps with few device feature
• Standard Restful
• Widget based apps
• Many Platforms
When Not To
• High Performance Apps
• Heavy on OS and Device Features
• Complex N/W comm.
• Canvas based Apps
• Only Few Platforms
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Cross Platform Mobile Apps
When To
• Time to market is critical
• Saving Cost is critical
When Not To
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Hybrid Mobile Apps
When To
• Fairly Simple UI
• Complex Backend
• Quite few platforms
• E.g ShareFile
• Recommended way - PhoneGap Plugin
Why To
• Some parts of app are common• Rest parts are different• Use Cross Platform to develop
common part• Use Native to develop the
weight lifting parts
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Cross Platform Mobile App Development
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Cross Platform Strategies
Common Platform
e.g WebKit
Common Platform
e.g WebKit
Mapping to Native
Mapping to Native
PhoneGap Titanium Mobile
Cross Platform Source Code
Cross Platform Source Code
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Common Platform Approach
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Modern Browsers
Mobile OS Browser
Android Webkit based
iPhone Webkit based
BlackBerry 6.0 + Webkit based
Window Phone 7 IE 7 based *
WebOS Webkit based
Nokia Webkit based
All new Smart Phones come with modern browsers, which have better support for HTML5/CSS3 specs
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WebViews
All of these smart phones supports using these modern browsers as embedded views (aka WebViews)
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JavaScript to native and back
Native Code(Java/C++/ObjC)
Native Code(Java/C++/ObjC)
JSON packets
All these browser engine (most common being webkit) support Javascript to talk to native code and back
HTML/JavascriptHTML/Javascript
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Hybrid Applications
HTML/JavascriptHTML/Javascript Native Code(Java/C++/ObjC)
Native Code(Java/C++/ObjC)
GPS Location
HTML/Javascript application loads Google Maps and talks to the native code to gain access to GPS location
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Possibilities• Limitless Possibilities• Expose Camera, Accelerometer, GPS, any of the phones
sensors to javascript• Instead of just building Browsed Based applications augment
with more phone features
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Development• HTML/CSS Application uses Common API exposing device
features
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Development• Sample code
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Mapping to Native
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Concept• Common API set is provided by framework
• Application is written using this common api set
• HTML/CSS may be supported or may not be supported. Titanium prefers native UI instead of HTML/CSS UI, Rhodes prefers HTML/CSS UI
• Phone Features are access liked common api set (this is similar to that in PhoneGap)
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Development• Two API Sets
• One for UI * (Specific to Titanium Mobile)• Create Windows• Create Dialogs• …….
• One for Phone Features• Same as PhoneGap
• Access Camera• Access GPS• ……
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Development
UI API Set
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Development
UI API Set
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Issues• Common API set across platforms is always minimum
• E.g IPhone as a widget, which Android not have• Fragmentation of the API itself.
• What is platform specific and not part of Common API comes in Platform specific api?
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Mobile App Dev Frameworks
Common Platform
• PhoneGapMapping to Native
• Titanium Mobile• Rhodes Mobile
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Compare Screens (IPhone)
PhoneGap Titanium Mobile
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Compare Screens (Android)
PhoneGap Titanium Mobile
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Open Source
MIT License
BSD License
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PhoneGap
• Only platform to support 6 Platforms
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PhoneGap• Standards based and extended
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PhoneGap Features
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PhoneGap Prerequistes• Need to be acquainted with Android, IOS, BlackBerry, WebOS
• Need to be expert at HTML/Javascript or framework like GWT
• Need to be acquainted with JavaScript libraries like• Jquery• script.aculo.us• Prototype• Etc
• Or Ajax framework like GWT
• Need different project for each platform, inject PhoneGap code in each project
• PhoneGap has no IDE, use Eclipse for Android and Xcode for IPhone
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Demo Screens - IPhone
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Demo Screens - Android
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Challenges and Advantages• HTML based UI is the biggest Challenge as well as Advantage
• Same UI can be used for Web and Mobile and even Desktop
• Promising Framework• GWT – Used by Spring Roo for Enterprise Application
Development• jQueryMobile – Based on legendary Jquery and now features
• Multipage Template• Page Slide Transitions• Dialogs• Toolbars• Forms• Lists
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• Appcelerator Titanium SDK• Titanium Module SDK
• Appcelerator Titanium SDK• Titanium Module SDK
Paid Modules• Commerce Modules• Communication Modules• Analytics Module• Media Modules
Apache License
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Titanium Mobile
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Titanium MobileTitanium JavaScriptTitanium JavaScript
Wekit JavascriptCore
Wekit JavascriptCore Mozilla RhinoMozilla Rhino
Interpreted By
IPhone Android
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Titanium Architecture
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Titanium Prerequistes• Need to be acquainted with Android, IOS programming
• Need to know JavaScript
• Use Titanium Mobile IDE to configure projects and use Text IDE to edit the code (unlike PhoneGap, there is only one project for all platforms)
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Demo Screens - IPhone
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Demo Screens - Android
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Challenges and Advantages• Being Native is the biggest strength
• Limited cross platform api is a weakness
• Platform specific api leads to fragmentation within code
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Native Mobile App Development
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Native App Development• Basically you need to hire experts who can
• Build Android, IOS, BB, BlackBerry and Windows mobile apps• Devs should have experience to deploy apps on market• Devs should have experience on various devices• QA should know how to automate things on devices/emulator
• Plan for risks if this is your companies first Mobile App deployment
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Hybrid Mobile App Development
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Hybrid App Development• Have Web Developers for Common UI• Have native code experts for heavy weight lifting• Use frameworks like PhoneGap Plugin Development
framework to glue the above two pieces• Measure at every milestone to keep track of effect of changes• Use Automation to regress every layer
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ShareFile Story
• as
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Comparison
Titanium Mobile• Gives out native app• API is more proprietary• UI has Limitations• UI will be fast • Much better User Experience
• Portal Code can not be reused
• Extensions are possible• Limited support for
HTML/Javascript
PhoneGap• Gives out a mobile web app• API is less proprietary• UI possibilities are unlimited• UI could be slow• User Experience will get
better with enhancements• Portal Code can be reused
• Extensions are possible and easy to implement
More will come out of discussion, comments are welcome
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Conclusion• Webkit is the next Virtual Machine.
• Maybe Going where Java could not go
• HTML 5, CSS 3 and Javascript is future,but not ready just yet
• HTML 5, CSS3 and Javascript to lessen the fragmentation
• HTML 5 will compete with native components
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Code Walkthrough - PhoneGap
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Digging Deeper (Android)• Instead of extending a Activity, we extend DroidGap• DroidGap internally uses a WebView to show local/remote
HTML/JavaScript/CSS• This WebView has hooks to
• Call Java from JavaScript• And Vice a Versa
• More like building Web 2.0 Applications • But also calling some java scripts which allow accessing native
mobile resources e.g. Geo, Database, File System, etc
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Digging Deeper
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Bootstrapping phonegap
<html> <head> <title>Phone Gap</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/phonegap.js"></script> <script>…</script> </head> <body onload=”init();"> <img id="map" /> </body></html>
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Bootstrapping phonegapfunction init() { document.addEventListener('deviceready’,loadMap,false);}
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Bootstrapping phonegapfunction loadMap() { var successCallback= function(position) { var coords = position.coords; var url = "http://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=" + coords.latitude + "," + coords.longitude ; document.getElementById('map').setAttribute('src',url); }; var failureCallback = function(e) { alert('Can\'t retrieve position.\nError: ' + e); }; //Fetch Coordinate Asynchronously navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(successCallback, failureCallback );}
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PhoneGap Walkthrough• Lets see a Live Demo
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Phone Gap Extension• Adding new apis to PhoneGap is Simple
• Say Dropbox like Sync is exposed via javascript api
• Each Platform to have Dropbox like Sync native code called from javascript
• References - http://wiki.phonegap.com/w/page/36752779/PhoneGap-Plugins
• Author – Rohit Ghatol
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Code Walkthrough – Titanium Mobile
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Directory Structure
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App.js (entry point)var tabGroup = Titanium.UI.createTabGroup();var win1 = Titanium.UI.createWindow({ title: 'Search', url: 'search.js'});var tab1 = Titanium.UI.createTab({ window:win1, title:'Search Alternatives’});
tabGroup.addTab(tab1); tabGroup.addTab(tab2); tabGroup.open();
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search.js (building UI)var window = Titanium.UI.currentWindow;var search = Titanium.UI.createSearchBar({height:43, top:0});var actInd = Titanium.UI.createActivityIndicator({ height:50,});var tableview = Titanium.UI.createTableView({ top:50});window.add(search);window.add(tableview);
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search.js (Ajax Call)var xhr = Titanium.Network.createHTTPClient();xhr.onload = function(){ actInd.hide(); var doc = xhr.responseText; var json = eval('('+doc+')'); var data = []; //…. Load data in data // provide the data to table to populate the table tableview.setData(data); };
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search.js (Event handling)//send ajax request to fetch altrnatives for searchTextfunction searchAlternatives(searchText){ xhr.open('GET','http://api.alternativeto.net/software/'+searchText+'/?count=15');xhr.send();}
//start search when user hits enter on search boxsearch.addEventListener('return', function(e){ actInd.show(); searchAlternatives(e.value);});
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Titanium Walkthrough• Lets see a Live Demo
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Questions?
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Agile Software Product Development Partner
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Synerzip in a Nut-shell
1. Software product development partner for small/mid-sized technology companies
• Exclusive focus on small/mid-sized technology companies• By definition, all Synerzip work is the IP of its respective clients• Deep experience in full SDLC – design, dev, QA/testing, deployment• Technology and industry domain agnostic
2. Dedicated team of high caliber software professionals • Seamlessly extends client’s local team, offering full transparency• NOT just “staff augmentation”, but provide full mgmt support
3. Actually reduces risk of development/delivery• Experienced team - uses appropriate level of engineering discipline• Practices Agile development – responsive, yet disciplined
4. Reduces cost – dual-shore team, 50% cost advantage5. Offers long term flexibility – allows (facilitates) taking offshore
team captive – aka “BOT” option
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Our Clients
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Questions?
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