Cross Platform Tools
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For this month's Tech Session, we turn our attention to crossplatform development tools.
There are a seemingly endless array of new devices coming onto the market each with it's own set of development tools, languages and approaches. For small shops, delivering apps for more than a single platform can be daunting. To fill this need, a number of projects and solutions have sprung up that provide developers a way to leverage a single codebase to write apps for multiple platforms.
We will feature three presentations that cover different cross platform tools.
If you would like to present on the subject of crossplatform tools, such as PhoneGap or MonoTouch or similar, please consider sharing a 15-20 minute presentation. Sessions will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Agenda:
6:00pm - doors open - pizza, drinks and networking
7:00pm - program
Presentations:
Presentation 1: "Using CoronaSDK to create rich mobile applications in a hurry" by Joe Flowers.
An introduction to CoronaSDK and discussion of its use in taking award-winning "Dabble" (http://dabblegame.com (http://dabblegame.com/)) board game to mobile quickly on both iPhone and Android using a single codebase. Discussion of pros/cons of going non-native and the types of apps that can quickly be brought to market with CoronaSDK.
Joe Flowers and Nitin Malhotra have spent several years in the independent game development industry. Pre-mobile efforts focused on building Massively Multipler online role playing games leveraging Flash front ends and ColdFusion/SQL Server backends - including "Oil Empires" (oilempires.com (http://oilempires.com/)) and "Kings of Babylon" ( http://kob.itch.com/ )
Presentation 2: "Adobe AIR and PhoneGap (Apache Callback)" by Andrew Trice
Interested in deploying your applications to multiple mobile platforms, or lowering the barrier of entry into mobile development? If so, then you are in luck! In this session, Adobe Evangelist Andrew Trice will cover Adobe AIR and PhoneGap (Apache Callback) for cross-platform mobile development, including sample applications, technical details, and multi-device considerations.
Andrew is a Technical Evangelist with Adobe Systems. Andrew brings to the table over a decade of experience delivering solutions for the web, desktop and mobile. He is an experienced architect, team leader, accomplished speaker, and published author.
Presentation 3: "Sencha Touch" by Jason Perry
A break down of a portion of the applications you build in the Sencha Touch class called Subgenious University.
Jason is the Director of Training with Fig Leaf Software and has over a decade in IT development experience.
8:15pm - Member Announcements
8:30 - Networking/Cleanup/Adjourn
Special thanks to our awesome sponsors for making it happen:
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