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Write an iPhone/Android native app from scratch using HTML5 and Phonegap. Imran Qureshi VP Engineering CareAnyware Inc. (Largest SaaS provider for home healthcare agencies since 2002). About Me. Bachelors in Computer Science, 1994 Built slideshow feature in MS PowerPoint (250M users)
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Write an iPhone/Android native app from scratch using HTML5 and Phonegap Imran Qureshi VP Engineering CareAnyware Inc. (Largest SaaS provider for home healthcare agencies since 2002)
About Me • Bachelors in Computer Science, 1994 • Built slideshow feature in MS PowerPoint (250M users) • Google “Imran Qureshi easter egg” • Led effort to rewrite Hotmail in 2003 (50M users/day, 364 M/month) • Google “Imran Qureshi Kahuna” • 11 patents US Pop. 2000 = 281M 2011 = 312M
Technology Options * Mono project has some limited functionality ** Few people have Java installed/enabled
What are industry leaders doing? • Netflix (http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/why-we-choose-html5-for-user.html) • “Doesn’t look like web technology, does it? That’s what HTML5 brings to the table, the freedom to create rich, dynamic and interactive experiences for any platform with a web browser. In fact, we’re also using HTML5 to create the user experience for our iPhone, iPad and Android applications as well.” • Facebook • Facebook CTO: Key high-level focuses for Facebook in 2011 from a technology perspective: HTML5 and mobile • “All of our developers are good at HTML. Only a few of them are really good at Objective-C and Android. We are able to make our Web developers the same as our client-side developers in some respects.” – Dave Fetterman, Facebook's Engineering Manager • http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/09/how-facebook-mobile-was-design.php • Project Spartan will allow web apps to run inside Facebook on smartphones • Windows 8 Tablets will run only HTML5 apps and Silverlight
Links • This presentation and links to all the tools/frameworks available at: iqcode.wordpress.com