Phonegap Frameworks
How Far We Have Come
Who Am I ?
Sani Yusuf
- Currently working on Network Global App
- Phonegapper from day one
- Keen Google Glass explorer
- Aspiring Tech Renaissance Man
@saniyusuf
Why Am I Here?
- Stone ages of Phonegap (Notobi)
- Early efforts
- Major setbacks
- Efforts today
- What the future holds
Awareness Awareness Awareness
In The Beginning
Native ruled
Few native developers
Way more web developers
Along Came Cordova
Write HTML5 & JS
Deploy everywhere
Apps For Everyone
Things Nobody Told Me
Phonegap != UI
Errm where is the degubber?
Why soo slow?
So its great. Who is using it?
The Good Early Efforts
The HTML5 Promise
Finally Some UI
Finally Some Important People
The Future Looking Bright in 2011
The Backstabbing Begins
Facebook RIP (2011 - 2012)
Instagram Leaves
Linkedin Leaves
HTML5 Doesn't Deliver Due To Browser Wars
Grow a pair browser vendors, you are delaying a generation of awesomeness.
Brace Yourselves
Frameworks To The Rescue
Performant
Active Community
Adoption
Frequent Updates
JUST SHOW ME
Ionic Framework
If you love angular, you will love Ionic
Kick ass CSS themes (SASS-able)
Community that cares
Collection-Repeat
Solid Docs
Want More?
http://ionicframework.com
famo.us
No DOM, just JS.
Performance obsessed. Promises 60fps
Top notch animations
Angular Integration
Famous University
http://famo.us
Framework7
Made by idangero.us
Focuses solely on IOS
Tons of IOS specific UI components
Killer IOS swipe back feature
Don't believe me, see for yourself
Custom DOM library & MVC-able
http://www.idangero.us/framework7/
Polymer
By Google's chrome team
All about material design
Web components
Very device adaptive
Has its own binding magic
Ionic team working on Angular material shhh
https://material.angularjs.org
Show Me
http://www.polymer-project.org/
Fork Yacine's polymer experiment
https://github.com/yrezgui/dropbox-polymer-demo
Onsen UI
Speed
Built with angular
Shorter learning curve
Drag and drop studio
Jquery tolerant
http://onsenui.io/
Go Ratchet
Skinned for both Android & IOS
Almost 10k * on Github
Beautiful UI Components
Shortest learning curve
MVC free
http://goratchet.com/
Sorry Native
Phonegappers are taking over
Growth Accelerators
Standardize HTML5
Firefox OS
Its all about buttery smooth performance
Get big boys involved
Keep Phonegapping
Watch Out for
Firebase
http://firebase.com
Auth0
https://auth0.com/
AppMachine
http://www.appmachine.com/
There is hope
Future
Apps should not be platform agnostic
Consistent performance
Write once deploy once
