Building Cloud-based Cross-Platform Mobile

Building Cloud-based Cross-Platform Mobile was an interesting and useful meet-up event hosted by Sencha Touch in Redwood City. This event was great for developers and enterprises alike. And companies to reduce the costs associated with porting apps across multiple platforms. Here's a summary of the event:

Building Cloud-based Cross-Platform Mobile WEB Apps

Speaker: James Pearce, Sencha

The web is always evolving, but we're witnessing a significant architectural shift as services migrate to the cloud, business logic moves to ever-thicker clients, and the web escapes the desktop to become a beautifully mobile medium.

In this environment, web application frameworks like Sencha Touch offer a new way of building mobile services using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. We'll explore the possibilities that this rich, standards-based approach can bring, how to develop mobile web apps that look and feel native on iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry touch devices, and how to leverage the power of cloud-based services to provide scalable and compelling applications in this new world.

Mobile App Automated Testing in the Cloud

Speaker: Josh Galde & Chris Karnacki, DevicesAnywhere

While a good number of consumer mobile applications having tapped into the cloud, so far, only a handful of enterprise mobile applications have done the same with any success. However, Juniper Research has predicted that the number of enterprise customers using mobile cloud-based applications will rise to more than 130 million by 2014.

As cloud providers are increasingly opening up their APIs to developers, an opportunity is emerging for companies to reduce the costs associated with porting apps across multiple platforms. This approach is both attractive for developers and enterprises alike: developers get a wider potential audience, whereas enterprise customers reduce costs and get more flexibility by outsourcing application management on a scalable, pay-per-use basis.

Security is a challenge associated with cloud computing across all connected devices; however both developers and enterprise customers need to take into consideration the mobile factor. For example, how do you ensure quality of service coverage & capacity for multimedia services in a fluctuating signal environment? How to deploy software across a multitude of heterogeneous devices with different capabilities? How does the IT department manage a network with assets that are not visible and ensure problems in the field do not occur?