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Foreword
by Jim Huempfner
There is no doubt that everything is going mobile—not just because everything
can but because it is having a transformational impact on how we live, work, and
communicate. Mobile applications have become critical solutions for both businesses
and consumers.
As a result, many companies are gravitating toward mobile web as their primary
mobile app development technology. If not done correctly, defining, designing,
building, and maintaining mobile applications for both evolving multiple OS platforms
and the ever-changing device landscape can be difficult, time-consuming,
and expensive. Numerous commercial and open source products and frameworks
that can potentially simplify mobile application creation and development are
coming to the marketplace.
PhoneGap is proving to be one of the most popular solutions in this space, allowing
users to quickly and easily build applications that will run on multiple platforms,
leveraging your existing web development skill sets (tweaked for mobile
development, of course). Because of the emergence of this solution as a frontrunner
and the challenges customers face in implementing the technology, John
Wargo has written this book to aid developers in the process.
After a decades-long career in various computing technologies, John started to
focus on mobile development platforms in 2006 when he began working for RIM,
the makers of the BlackBerry handheld devices. When I first met him, he was
teaching a group of colleagues and me the ins and outs of BlackBerry development.
John has a passion for teaching that is surpassed only by his passion for
mobile development, which was demonstrated both loud and clear during the
class. You’ll see that passion and depth of understanding clearly demonstrated in
this book as well.
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