Hodentek Mobile

Everybody has a phone and a majority have smart phones of one kind or another. There are all kinds of apps and quite a lot of them you can use to do business. The basic app kinds are either native client apps or mobile web sites. Some of them use  cloud-based data and services while others may not. This session is about mobile client options; about native and web-based; about HTML5/CSS and proprietary software but mos tof all its about mobile clients. The Mobile Client track ( https://vslive.com/Events/New-York-2015/Tracks/Mobile-Client.aspx ) at the event includes the following: Using Xamarin tools to leverage your C# code on iOS and Android Azure Mobile Services Building Cross-Platform Games with MonoGame Swift for .NET Developers M02  Workshop: Native Mobile App Development for iOS, Android and Windows Using C# Monday   September   28    9:00am - 6:00pm •How to build your first mobile apps on the different platforms with the ...

Between Native Apps and web Apps, Web Apps have a lot of advantages. It is browser based and needs a connection to the Internet. It is lightweight and a lot easier to build and develop with just the basic HTML5/CSS/JavaScript. Of course you can build better apps with Intel XDK. Intel XDK gets frequent updates and you may have to update your app for the new builds. When you log into Intel XDK you will be taken to the App Dev Center where your projects are listed. Also note that Intel XDK has plans to discontinue the Control Center and replace it with a new interface. For example I have a couple of them but I have not finished with them yet. AppDevCenter.png I can expand each of them to see what options I have going forward. Here is HodentekBooks expanded. I can build the project as a Web App as shown here: BuildAsWebApp.png In fact most of the apps here were built as a mobile app either for Windows Phone or iPhone 5.0. I can build and test for any of the shown browsers o...

HTML5 is just one of the essential features for HTML based phone apps that provide the scaffolding. You will also need CSS3 to dress it up in more delightful ways and of course JavaScript to power the interactivity of the app without which it is dead in the water. While you could use DOM and vanilla JavaScript, it is lot more easier to use a framework (there is a learning curve), a User Interface Framework which combines JavaScript with CSS to provide a set of programming tools to deliver rich mobile applications. Quite a lot of them use jQuery in one form or another. The frameworks save a lot of development time and effort. There are different kind of devices (iPhones, Androids and Windows Phones) but also different operating systems (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, etc) and it will be desirable if one could use one tool to cover all these variations. This area has developed to the extent that you can develop cross-platform, cross-device (response design!) apps but still there iss...