1. Building Mobile and Web Applications (Apps) Quickly & Painlessly Don Cowan/Terry Wilkinson dcowan@csg.uwaterloo.ca twilkinson@csg.uwaterloo.ca An architecture and toolkit for mobile & Web-based systems

2. Agenda Our goals Why quickly & painlessly? What is an application? Examples Demonstration

3. Our Goals Holy Grail(s) –Improve productivity substantially –Democratize application development –Make apps accessible to a wider audience –Put more application building tools in the hands of the users (word processors, spreadsheets) Why quickly & painlessly? –Lots of data available - Open Data an example

4. What is an Application? Different types of blocks like LEGO An application block –Block of text, map, picture, video –An invoice: header, body, footer –Connect to data – just another block An app page is a set of blocks (block) Each application is a set of pages

5. What is an Application? Cont’d Use different types of blocks –Can build powerful apps –Application Development Language (ADL) –Mobile apps Crush the Crave, Building stories, NewsAtlas Apple, Android, BlackBerry stores

6. My real goal Just glue them all together and you have an application

7. Examples – Hello World (1)

8. Examples – Hello World (2)

9. Examples – Hello World (3)

10. Hello World - 2 pages (1)

11. Hello World - 2 pages (2)

12. Hello World - 2 pages (3)

13. List Customers (1)

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