Twin Cities Code Camp

A year ago, I hopped on the mobile/smartphone band wagon, by picking up a Motorola Droid. The original/milestone Droid phone from Motorola. I've been picking up learning about "mobile" development and what it means to business and technologist in my limited time, juggling multiple projects. The first thing you are faced, when you want to explore mobile development, is what platform do you want to target? Apple/IOS, Android, Blackberry, WebOS. As a systems integrator, with a number of technologies under my belt, the question was how to you reach more than one platform. What I discovered, is the web based frameworks and html5 are starting to emerge. Yes, these frameworks are still a little on the bleeding edge of things, but isn't that what all the fun is about? Get a peek into some of the emerging frameworks in this area. These frameworks include jQuery Mobile, Sencha, Titanium, SproutCore, PhoneGap, Rhodes are a few of the leading/bleeding frameworks that let you target multiple platforms. This won't be a deep dive, but will be a mid-level overview of some of these frameworks and my journey.