Build Your Own App for Fun and Profit by Scott La Counte

Author:Scott La Counte [La Counte, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Applicaton software
ISBN: 9781937589165
Publisher: Huron Street Press
Published: 2012-05-29T16:00:00+00:00

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PhoneGap

I decided that I was going to develop an iPhone app several months ago. It was the latest way to make money, so I figured, why don’t I jump on the bandwagon? I checked out some books on iPhone development and watched a few YouTube videos. After about ten hours of research, the furthest I was able to get was to download the iPhone SDK. I’ve had my share of programming courses in college, and I was developing websites before most people even had computers with modems. I say this so you understand just how complicated programming apps can be.

I’m not an expert in programming language; I understand the theories behind it, but I know little about how to actually write code. When mobile development was just getting started, I was out of luck. However, a relatively new program called PhoneGap is helping bridge the divide for people with no or limited programming skills.

PhoneGap got started in 2009 at the iPhoneDevCamp. The program allows developers to create a page like they would for the mobile Web—with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—and quickly convert it to a language that’s supported as a native app. Although PhoneGap is simple enough for anyone to use, companies like Wine.com have successfully built powerful apps with its framework.

The best thing about PhoneGap is that it’s free and open source. But regardless of whether you will develop a mobile app, PhoneGap is a valuable resource if only because it has simulators to let you see what a website looks like on a particular phone without actually having the phone.

It’s worth noting that, at the time of this writing, PhoneGap was bought by Adobe. One can only predict what they will do with the app and if they will ultimately charge for it. It is to their benefit, however, to keep it free and open source, giving companies an easy way to convert pages into apps without using the thing that Apple has an open vendetta against: Flash! In any scenario, the old version should remain available under free license but official support may (or may not) go away.

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