Google says it very succinctly: “HTML5 and WebKit pave the way for mobile web applications.”HTML5 is coming and it has a lot of interesting features, from audio and video support to local storage. Combine this with the fact that web apps are a particularly attractive way to reach many mobile platforms and the WebKit browser found on the iPhone and Android platforms already implements many of the HTML5 standard, and you can see why HTML5 is so attractive for mobile apps.
With the ability of HTML5 web apps to store data locally and have the browser pass along the device’s hardware states, I believe that HTML5 wbe apps can do almost anything you could want an internet-using application to do. The only exception I can think of is high performance 3D graphics, as even great 2D graphics are possible with CSS3 and HTML5’s canvas tag. Already there are nice libraries like RaphaëlJS that work in the iPhone’s Mobile Safari.
With my friends Katie, Paul and Travis I’ve started Appostles. We’re awesome iPhone, Android and Blackberry developers and we want to build your apps. Sound interesting? Then hire us!
Android Dev Camp Amsterdam was a big success. Thank you to the 250 attendees for coming, Kumpany for planning everything and T-Mobile for initiating and supporting the event.
Also, if you were the person who emailed me in Dutch about building an app (that’s all I remember), I’m sorry but I seem to have completely lost your email. Can you please email me again?
I’m very excited to announce that we are putting on an Android Dev Camp on January 8, 2009 in Amsterdam. It should be a lot of fun, so you should definitely come.
Hopefully this will make up for not posting at all about Mobile Dev Camp, an awesome event I organized in Amsterdam at the end of November. There’s a huge amount of interest in mobile development, so I hope to do more Mobile Dev Camps, both in Amsterdam and in other cities, such as Helsinki. If you’re interested in helping organize them, please drop me a line at peter@bubblefoundry.com.
