Building Cross Platform Mobile Apps with Ruby and PhoneGap

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Demonstrates a practical stack: PhoneGap plus WebKit loads HTML/CSS/JS inside native web views (Xcode and Eclipse projects), exposes GPS, accelerometer and phone APIs to JavaScript, and uses client-side SQLite via HTML5 plus app cache/offline support to persist a legislator lookup (lat/long → legislator → tel: link) that runs in the simulator and caches results for offline use. Notes: UI feels less native, App Store acceptance can be hit or miss.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:29Why Mobile
3. 8:55Alternate Technology Stack
4. 13:12HTML
5. 13:35Quick Summary
6. 14:43Google Gears
7. 15:17Types of Storage
8. 15:45ClientSide Storage
9. 17:30Annotation
10. 17:56Database
11. 18:53Interface
12. 19:08Method Transaction
13. 20:00Sample Code
14. 20:38Safari Demo
15. 21:52Security Privacy
16. 22:58Gmail
17. 24:19PhoneGap
18. 25:19PhoneGap Interface
19. 25:54XUI
20. 26:26AppT
21. 27:20Data Sources
22. 28:04HTTP Client
23. 28:18GetPost
24. 28:53Legislative Lookup
25. 36:03Downsides
26. 36:57Whats Next
27. 37:31Questions
28. 40:07Demos

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