Mobile Platforms

Learn to develop an Android application from start to finish. In this hands-on tutorial, you will learn design principles and we provided code snippets to put together an Android application. By end of this tutorial, you will understand main building blocks for Android application development. Read more.

This hands on tutorial will lead attendees through the entire process of building their first mobile application using Adobe's Open Source Flex SDK ( http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/site/Home) and compiling it, packaging and installing it on Android and BlackBerry operating systems. Beginners are welcome! Read more.

Lots of mobile platforms and stores are available out there. How to create a mobile app for many mobile devices and platforms? How to deal with porting and compatibility problems? jQuery Mobile is a HTML5-powered framework, open sourced, that deals with these problem for us. Any web designer or web developer can create a mobile app in just minutes using standard HTML5 code. Read more.

Learn why Android is awesome, and how you can build useful apps for the world’s most popular tiny computer even if you hate the idea of a telephone. Find out why a good UI and well thought-through interaction design are not optional components for mobile hackers, and build an actual app in 3 hours in this hands-on, fast paced tutorial. For existing programmers of any language at any level. Read more.

Mobile development becomes a big problem for everyone trying to create mobile applications, games or experiences. Standards, such as HTML5-related APIs and open sourced projects, such as PhoneGap, WURFL, or cocos2d for iOS and Android are great examples of how to create multiplatform solutions for mobile devices. Read more.

PhoneGap is an open source Mobile framework for developing native applications for multiple devices. The developer programs using standard, well known Web technologies but gets access to device features using JavaScript apis. Build the app with web technologies, wrap it in the PhoneGap framework for device access, deploy on iOS, Android, Blackberry and more! One application, many platforms! Read more.

Most mobile apps incorporate open source software, yet many of these apps may not be complying with open source licenses. The Free Software Foundation position is that iTunes and GPL are incompatible. This session will present research by OpenLogic on the use of open source software in mobile apps and the level of compliance with open source licenses. Read more.

Just a few years ago, most people used just a single personal computer, and application developers only needed to worry about single-device applications. Today, people expect to use applications on their desktops and seamlessly switch to phones, tablets or even televisions. Instead of just building an iPhone app, companies should think about the multi-device trend when designing a mobile strategy. Read more.

In this presentation we demonstrate how an Android application can be cross-compiled to other smartphones such as the iPhone or Windows Phone 7. We will give a technical overview of the cross-compilation process based on the Open Source project XMLVM. Read more.

Weinre is a debugger for mobile web apps. It reuses the user interface of WebKit's Web Inspector debugger to allow you to debug your web applications running on a device or emulator from your desktop. Read more.

A cautionary tale of all the documented and undocumented quirks involved with developing applications with web technologies on Android. This will cover the fundamentals, as well as the obscure facts about developing Android Web Applications in the real world. Read more.

Learn how to remain true to your open source ideals, as well as the open source community at large, when developing and designing software for Apple’s iOS. This talk covers the ins and outs of open source iOS frameworks and libraries as well as licensing pitfalls and tips. Read more.

App Inventor is a new visual programming environment developed by Google, free to the public. Since Fall 2009, several educational institutions have been using it to teach programming in introductory computer science courses. This presentation will share experiences from these courses, showcase examples of mobile apps created by students, and discuss the future of App Inventor use in education. Read more.

Multitouch hardware has now reached consumer open source products. How can we enable developers to create immersive and useful touch software? How do we look to the future, while still enabling software from the past? In this talk, we will look at the new software technologies and frameworks that will revolutionize user interfaces. Read more.