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Why should I go for cross platform application development ?

Did you ever wonder “Wish I could create a mobile app for my business or my customers!”. Well, then do you know basic HTML and JavaScript (like tags, few styles, functions, etc.)? If the answer is yes, then this course is made for you.

PhoneGap solves the problem of learning different frameworks and languages, by using standards-based web technologies to bridge web applications and mobile devices. Since PhoneGap apps are standards compliant, they’re future-proofed to work with browsers as they evolve. In other words, a month on native app development is converted to just 4 days to write the same amount of app functionality in PhoneGap, version 2.9.1.

Why should you learn about Phonegap?

PhoneGap has been downloaded over 1 million times and is being used by over 400,000 developers. Thousands of apps built using PhoneGap are available in mobile app stores and directories. Today, your favourite apps like BBC, IGN games, Rormix, Browser Quest, MathIQ are using PhoneGap. If you are not creating an app for industrial grade real-time calculations, PhoneGap is made for you.

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Need for Cross-Platform Mobile App Development

Screens are big, apps are big, and life as we know it is on its head again. In a world that’s increasingly social and open, mobile apps play a vital role, and have changed the focus from what’s on the Web, to the apps on our mobile device. Mobile apps are no longer an option, they’re an imperative. As the world is turning digital more and more manufacturers want a piece of this pie. You see a variety of hundreds of devices being launched by many manufacturers on various platforms. Just taking the different types of operating systems into account you have Android, iOS, Blackberry OS Symbian, Windows Phone in terms of market presence. Then you have a lot of new operating systems pooping up and getting a lot of feedback from the developer’s community like Firefox OS, Sailfish OS, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch, Bada OS, Web OS, MeeGo.

This is just in terms of operating systems, don’t even get me started on the different hardware components you have for various devices. For a new developer it is hard to understand one platform leave alone so many, but the primary aim being that his application should be out there on as many devices as possible.

Like Goldilocks, you may have to try a couple beds that are too soft or too hard, before you find the one that’s just right. And sometimes there’s just no perfect choice. Each development scenario has its pros and cons, and those might in be inline, or at odds, with your means. Unlike Goldilocks, there are no bears to contend with.

Learn Intel XDK – Easy and Fast

You need a mobile app, but where do you start? Now obviously it not expected of you to start from scratch for every available platform out there. Instead you can just use Intel XDK, which is a cross-platform development suite which provides integrated approach for all your needs, end-to-end. You can start developing your distinctive and dynamic application on this platform using simple drag and drop tools. This application developed will inbred to mostly all the available platforms out there and run just as smoothly as native apps. The devices are becoming more and more powerful but hardly utilizing the resources it has got.

This tutorial series aims to kick-start your way into application development without any programming background as such and in less than one hour, yes you read it right within 60 minutes you will be able to design, develop and build your cross platform application, along with step by step instructions on how to build your application for various platform like iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Tizen, Nook, Amazon and also how you can convert your application into a WebApp for Chrome, Facebook or to run on your website.

What will you learn in these 60 minutes?

• Setting up your development environment to make professional apps
• Using the visual editor to create your app’s UI
• Emulation
• Testing your apps
• Deployment

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Have an idea for a game that everyone will want to play? Do you dream of becoming a game development professional? 

If you answered “yes”, and you know the basics of iOS development, then this course is for you!

This course will start you at the very beginning. You’ll work with development expert Connor Denman as he shows you how to set up your environment with the Cocos2D game engine. He’ll then take you on a thorough tour of the fundamentals of game programming: animation, sound, character controls, and even basic game physics.

You’ll wrap up the course by creating a game that integrates all the elements you have learned.

If you have been thinking about learning game development, this is where you start!

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What if instead of just playing games and watching TV, your kids could actually make THEIR OWN games and animated stories?

This course is aimed for kids between 8 and 16 and they’ll learn how to make simple games, stories and animation using Scratch, a visual programming platform for children created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Scratch makes it very simple for kids to understand basic coding concepts and to make their creations come true by just dragging and dropping elements and connecting them with each other. It is highly visual, interactive and fun!

The course is project-based, this means we’ll work though out actual examples that you can modify and play with afterwards.

1. Cat in Desert
2. Wizard Boy
3. Zombie Farm
4. Ocean Story
5. Halloween Game

What your kids will learn in this course:

• Using intuitive building blocks to visually craft simple web games, stories and animations.
• Grasping programming concepts such as conditions and loops. Taught with a project-based methodology.
• Make their creations interactive for the users.
• Share their games and animations so that other people can play and modify them.
• Most importantly, understand how simple it is to make their creative ideas a reality in today’s world.

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Make those apps you’ve always wanted, and sell them on the App Store and on the Google Playstore. Get started TODAY.

In this couse, you’ll learn how to create HTML5 apps for iPhone, iPad, Android devices and the web. The course is aimed for both beginners and people with some web development experience.

Some of the topics we cover:

• HTML, CSS and JavaScript from scratch.
• HTML5 semantic elements.
• HTML5 video and audio.
• CSS3 containers.
• JQuery from scratch.
• JQuery Mobile to create professional looking user interfaces.
• Geolocation.
• Camera access.
• Offline storage.
• Cloud-enable your app: user login, user signup, photo sharing.
• iOS and Android environment setup and account creation process.
• Package your phone for iOS and Android using Phonegap.
• Publish your apps in the App Store and the Google Playstore.

In addition, this course covers the creation of two HTML5 sample apps that you can use as starters for your own projects:

• Cooking recipie app which uses JQuery Mobile and Offline Storage.
• Photo sharing app built with JQuery Mobile and Appcelerator Cloud Services to share photos and create users in the cloud.

This course was created by Pablo Farias Navarro, founder and CEO of Zenva (academy.zenva.com). More than 20k people around the world are taking our high-quality courses in HTML5, mobile apps and game development.

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Making games is a lot easier than you think. Imagine you could learn how to make HTML5 games that run in all browsers and Windows 8 with our HTML5 game development tutorial in only 2.5 hours! Well, that is exactly what this course does.

We know you’ve always wanted to make your own games. Don’t keep postponing it. Start TODAY

Learn how to create a Zelda-like action game demo from scratch using only Javascript and HTML. No experience or previous knowledge is required! Although knowing the basics of HTML and Javascript is recommended.

This HTML5 game development tutorial is aimed for both beginners and more advanced users who may have HTML5 experience but haven’t got into games yet.

Some of the topics you’ll learn by building this game from total scratch:

●  Creating a basic game that can be embed in any website and can be played with just a web browser.

●  Displaying a map and characters on the screen.

●  Moving a player on this map.

●  Using collision detection to simulate the shooting of bad guys.

●  Adding enemies to your games.

●  Adding sound to your games.

●  Putting it all together to create a fun playable demo.

●  All game files, including images and sound are available at the end of each chapter for download.

This HTML5 game development tutorial has been created by Jacob Deichert in collaboration with Pablo Farias. Jacob has created comprehensive HTML5 game dev screencast tutorials on YouTube and other platforms.

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