Overview
Progressive Web Apps are the new hotness with Google pressing hard to make them the defacto choice for building mobile applications but what’s to be done about iOS where many of the key API’s are not supported. That’s where Apache Cordova/PhoneGap comes in by polyfilling the missing functionality. In this talk Simon will show you how to create a PWA that runs on the web, Android and iOS from a single code base. Take advantage of some new tools to easily deploy and test your PWA.
Beginning with a brief overview of Progressive Web Apps, what features make your web app progressive and which API’s you can take advantage of, Simon will discuss the availability of these API’s on various platforms, taking care not to completely dump on Apple for falling behind. No, that’s a lie, he will jokingly take Apple to task.
He will introduce Apache Cordova/PhoneGap, explaining how you can use Apache Cordova/PhoneGap to deploy a web application to Android and iOS; explaining how Cordova plugins allow us to polyfil the missing functionality on iOS.
Simon will demo a PWA running on the desktop in Chrome, Android in Chrome and as a compiled hybrid app on iOS all from the same codebase.
Objective
To introduce developers to building progressive web apps for all platforms.
Target Audience
Web application developers
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
- What are Progressive Web Apps
- How to build a progressive web app
- The differences between PWA’s on Chrome and Safari
- How to use a single code base to target web, Android and iOS
- How to deploy a PWA on iOS as an app
