New Offer: Buy a Basic PhoneGap Support package for just $250 and you'll get these two online training sessions (Basic and Advanced), plus six others throughout the year. You'll also enjoy other key benefits like a private forum and access to PhoneGap experts. Find out more.

Welcome to PhoneGap training! The Intro PhoneGap Webinar is on Thursday, April 14th from 10 am - 1 pm Pacific Time. The Master Class takes place on Thursday, April 21st from 10 am - 1 pm Pacific Time.

Intro PhoneGap Webinar on Thursday, April 14

In this hands-on tutorial you'll learn how to use your HTML/JavaScript skills to build applications for mobile platforms including iPhone/iPad, Google Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Palm.

Learn how to use PhoneGap, an open source mobile development framework, to create platform-neutral mobile applications with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Get the tools and experience you need to build app store ready mobile applications for iPhone, Android, Blackberry and more.

At the completion of this course, you'll be able to

• Compile for multiple platforms
• Run code in a emulator
• Debug your HTML and JavaScript
• Access native APIs, including location, camera, accelerometer, contacts, and more via JavaScript
• Optimize your JavaScript for mobile devices
• Build a mobile application that runs offline
• Use CSS transitions, animations and transforms to create native looking interfaces
• Use mobile JS libraries, such as XUI and Dashcode to build mobile applications faster.

Mastering PhoneGap for Complex Mobile App Development on
Thursday, April 21

Are you ready to take your PhoneGap apps to the next level? In this advanced mobile app development training workshop, you'll learn how to:

• Extend PhoneGap and work with plug-ins
• Dive deep into mobile JavaScript to build complex apps
• Work with XUI
• Take your PhoneGap apps offline
• Work with GitHub and contribute back to the PhoneGap project.

At the end of the PhoneGap Master Class, you will have all the knowledge you'll need to build complex, cross platform mobile apps with advanced GUIs and functionality using the PhoneGap open source framework.

Topics covered in the PhoneGap Master Class include:

• Tools you'll need to develop for iPhone, Blackberry, Android, WRT and Palm
• Keeping a tiny footprint, even for complex apps
• A walkthrough of XUI, including dom retrieval and manipulation
• Alternatives to XUI, including jQuery and Dojo
• Complex GUI development

Who Should Attend?

If you're a web developer, mobile developer, mobile designer or a project manager in charge of mobile development, then PhoneGap training is for you.

If you're a JavaScript and HTML expert, then PhoneGap provides the fastest, most effective way to add mobile application development to your roster, especially if you're building social networking applications, simple games and companion applications to websites.

Prerequisites

Developers should have basic HTML and JavaScript experience, and be familiar with version control systems such as GitHub. Training sessions are instructor led. Students will need their own laptops and mobile phones to participate.

Students are encouraged to get a head start by downloading the appropriate mobile SDKs for each platform - SDKs and IDEs are cross-platform compatible, unless otherwise indicated:

• iPhone: Xcode and the iPhone SDK. Mac only*
• Android: Android SDK (2.1 recommended) and the Java SE Development Kit. Highly recommended: the Eclipse IDE and the ADT Android Eclipse Plug-in.
• Blackberry: Requires Java JDK [1], ANT [2], and the BlackBerry Widget SDK [3] for Windows. Additionally, the Java Eclipse IDE [4] can be used but is not required. Please see our tutorial for detailed instructions on how to setup your development environment.
  [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html#jdk
  [2] http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
  [3] http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/browserdev/widgetsdk.jsp
  [4] http://us.blackberry.com/developers/browserdev/eclipseplugin.jsp 
• Symbian: You can develop PhoneGap apps for Symbian without any external software, using Nokia's Web Runtime (WRT). However, Aptana Studio and the Nokia WRT plug-in are recommended to ease development. Further information is available in our Symbian tutorial.
• Palm: VirtualBox and the webOS SDK.