Create Your First "Native" Mobile App with JavaScript + PhoneGap
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PhoneGap allows developers to create mobile apps using web technologies like JavaScript instead of native languages. The presentation introduces PhoneGap and builds a simple encrypted TODO list app as an example. It then proposes CrypTag, an encrypted, taggable, and searchable web storage app where the tags are encrypted on the client and only random strings are sent to the server for increased security and privacy. The talk closes by inviting attendees to future events at the hackerspace and providing contact details.
Create Your First "Native" Mobile App with JavaScript + PhoneGap
- 1. Create Your First "Native" Mobile App with JavaScript + PhoneGap Steve Phillips / @elimisteve SBHX 2013.12.18
- 2. The Plan ● Intro to PhoneGap ○ Create native-ish mobile apps using web technologies ● Example app: Encrypted Anti-TODO List ○ Store encrypted list on untrusted server, create new list items and query from phone ● Writing this simple app inspired a more general solution: CrypTag
- 3. Phone Gap ● “PhoneGap is a free and open source framework that allows you to create mobile apps using standardized web APIs for the platforms you care about.” ● Advantages ○ Speed of development ○ Code reusability ○ Use familiar technologies (if you do web dev)
- 4. Phone Gap (2) ● Disadvantages ○ No native-looking UI elements ■ See Titanium Mobile, Trigger.io, Steroids.js ● (Actually, don’t see Titanium Mobile; it sucks) ○ Performance ● Installation ○ Out of scope of this brief talk ○ See http://phonegap.com/install/ ■ Talk to me if you need help or join #sbhackerspace on FreeNode by visiting http://irc.sbhackerspace.com in your browser
- 5. Example App: Encrypted Anti-TODO ● Let’s see some code! ○ Will post to GitHub soon ● Front end ○ PhoneGap (JS) ● Back end ○ Python on AppFog using Flask microframework ■ Don’t use AppFog, either ■ App does down, doesn’t start back up like Heroku, GAE, etc
- 6. Next Step: CrypTag ● Encrypted, Taggable, Searchable Web Storage ● How is it searchable and encrypted? ○ Not full search; can query by tag ■ App ideas: notes, bookmarks, more ● “Then the server stores the tags in plaintext?” ○ Nope; client stores mapping between tags (“snowden”) and a random hex string (“b6a27d9”) ○ Server only ever sees the random strings
- 7. Closing Points ● WebTech Wednesday in 2014 ○ Nodebots? Docker? Ansible? D3? pandas? ● TA3M: Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays ● Google Group ○ http://gg.sbhackerspace.com ● SBHX IRC channel ○ #sbhackerspace on FreeNode ○ Visit http://irc.sbhackerspace.com ● Exercism.io
- 8. Contact ● Email ○ elimisteve@gmail.com or ○ steve@tryingtobeawesome.com ● GitHub ○ github.com/elimisteve ● Twitter ○ @elimisteve ● FreeNode ○ elimisteve or elimisteve1