Hacking with Android: A Gateway to the Open Mobile Web
The mobile web in many countries has been a source of innovation in Open Source Technologies. Recent developments in web technology by a few companies have opened up the web to a new class of devices, such as the iPhone, the Google Android and the Palm Pre. This talk is about the Open Mobile Alliance's Android Platform,and how it is different from it's competitors, and from previous Open Source Phone efforts. This talk will go into the history behind the Android, the architecture of the Android Stack, as well as Android Software Development, both with Java and with the Nitobi PhoneGap API. This presentation will include a live demo where an Android Application will be written either from scratch or from the Android version of PhoneGap.
I’m the person who works behind the scenes with client projects, tackling the esoteric things such as deployments, and unconventional uses/abuses of Ruby, PHP and Javascript. Before Nitobi, I did some QA work at a company North Vancouver, and before all that I did a brief stint in the world of Campus and Community Radio after getting my BSc from the University of Northern British Columbia.
I’m one of the co-founders of Vancouver Hacker Space, which is part of the Hackerspaces Movement. VHS will be featured in the new book “Hackerspaces Everywhere”, which should be coming out sometime in 2009.
