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Interface NativeMobileApps

public interface NativeMobileApps

Creating Native Mobile Apps (Titanium, Phonegap)

"Packaging" technologies such as Titanium and Phonegap can be used to take a Smart GWT web application and package it as an installable native application that can be delivered via the "App Store" for the target mobile platform. Applications packaged in this way have access to native phone functionality that web applications in the phone's browser cannot access.

Both Titanium and Phonegap are open source mobile development frameworks which provide access to the underlying native device API's such as the accelerometer, geolocation, and UI. Both frameworks enable application development using only Javascript, CSS and HTML. Additionally they provide development environments that work across a wide variety of devices.

Phonegap has good support for native device API's as noted here. Titanium also has similar support. There are differences between the two environments and how they expose their API's, though both provide XCode compatible projects that can be compiled and run from the XCode IDE. See the subsections for additional details and references.