Native fell in love with JavaScript

Balazs Szanto (https://twitter.com/szntb) (Prezi for Windows team): Native fell in love with JavaScript

So you have an HTML+JS based application, and you wanna ship it to the native desktop platforms too? Just embed a browser into you application and it'll do the rest. If it were so simple.

Balazs will talk about his adventures of embedding the Chromium browser using the Chromium Embedded Framework into a .NET application. As opposed to web applications, on the native world the users expect from an application to work offline as well. This imposes a major problem, you have to do something with the XMLHttpRequests. What about the UX? The bottom line is that the JS code has to be tightly integrated with the native code. Some parts has to be removed, some has to be replaced with native code. In the talk the different approaches of how to make JS and native code work together will be presented.

Balázs is a .NET engineer from Prezi's Budapest office and works on Prezi for Windows. Besides writing C# code, he loves to zoom out and use different programming languages and technologies like Gradle, C++, Python. He also spent a decent amount of time to find out the best way to connect C# with Javascript.

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Schedule

6:30pm - Doors open
7:00pm - Doors close, presentation starts
8:30pm - Lights off

Drinks and snacks are provided by Prezi.