Chrome Apps for Mobile

HTML5 mobile dev done right?

What happened to PhoneGap?

• The source is being incubated at ASF, known as Cordova
• PhoneGap is an Adobe trademark, integrated with their product workflow
• PhoneGap hasn't worked out too well.

..why?

Performance.

And Cordova?

• Stronger with active community involvement
• Supports a lot of device functions across platforms.
• Not perfect, but it works.

So...Chrome Apps?

• Simply, web apps running on Chrome, with extra zing.
• Hosted or packaged
• Relatively easy to convert existing code.

Mobile!

• Mobile Chrome Apps - package Chrome Apps for mobile.
• Built on Cordova.
• Access Chrome APIs for identity, notifications.

So?

• WebViews - broken!
• The Chrome runtime's far more advanced, and optimized.
• Works on lots of platforms - but let's not go there right now.

Tools

• Chrome App Dev Tool for Mobile
• CCA
• Chrome Dev Editor

Demo

• Platea

Putting it together

• Cordova - Device functionality
• Famo.us - Smooth, complex UIs
• Parse/CloudEngine - Powerful backends

So what do we have here?

It's early days yet, but this is probably HTML5 for Android done right.

Play with it!

• https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/mobile-chrome-apps
• https://github.com/rudimk/platea

https://rudimk.github.io/