The best thing about being a consultant is the fact that you have to work for different clients and different projects all the time. My last assignment included a lot of Flex and, now, mobile development.
Being a lazy developer, as I am, I tried to find similarities with web development which, well, feels comfortable. PhoneGap is a OSS project to build cross-mobile (native) applications using the familiar HTML/CSS/Javascript stack. It currently targets Android, iPhone and BlackBerry. This last one was the most important for me this time and, unfortunately, the one that was lagging behind, with a poor overall situation (the maintainer had abandoned development).
No problem, that's the beauty of Open Source development! A quick look at the code (because that's actually the best available documentation) and I got a good idea of the intents both in iPhone, the core platform, and BlackBerry. It seemed that many lines were copied from the BlackBerry documentation and did not serve any obvious purpose. Given that the current code was failing to execute in the simulator I started to refactor...here and there, you know? By the afternoon I had a preview version with a Javascript Hello World and I was pretty happy. I sent the code to the PhoneGap team and got a warm welcome and some advice. Another day and I've been able to submit to the mailing list a working implementation of part of the API: telephony, vibration, location (GPS) and device information. Not bad for a couple of days! Even more so knowing it was my first mobile development ever (a fellow co-worker had to show me the use of the simulator...endless shame).
And now for Windows Mobile...a much bigger job given that there's no code to start with. An implementation from scratch and with C#. Too daunting a task indeed! Let's see how it turns out.
Being a lazy developer, as I am, I tried to find similarities with web development which, well, feels comfortable. PhoneGap is a OSS project to build cross-mobile (native) applications using the familiar HTML/CSS/Javascript stack. It currently targets Android, iPhone and BlackBerry. This last one was the most important for me this time and, unfortunately, the one that was lagging behind, with a poor overall situation (the maintainer had abandoned development).
No problem, that's the beauty of Open Source development! A quick look at the code (because that's actually the best available documentation) and I got a good idea of the intents both in iPhone, the core platform, and BlackBerry. It seemed that many lines were copied from the BlackBerry documentation and did not serve any obvious purpose. Given that the current code was failing to execute in the simulator I started to refactor...here and there, you know? By the afternoon I had a preview version with a Javascript Hello World and I was pretty happy. I sent the code to the PhoneGap team and got a warm welcome and some advice. Another day and I've been able to submit to the mailing list a working implementation of part of the API: telephony, vibration, location (GPS) and device information. Not bad for a couple of days! Even more so knowing it was my first mobile development ever (a fellow co-worker had to show me the use of the simulator...endless shame).
And now for Windows Mobile...a much bigger job given that there's no code to start with. An implementation from scratch and with C#. Too daunting a task indeed! Let's see how it turns out.
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