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(Native mobile apps w/ familiar web technologies & simple CLI)

Wow. The coolest thing about the video for me was seeing WEINRE in action. WEINRE allows you to use a web inspector (like Chrome's) on your desktop to debug an HTML5 app running on your device. This is the first I've heard of it.

http://phonegap.github.com/weinre/

Looks pretty damn awesome, imo, and I'm planning to play with this in December after some current commitments are over. I'm betting there will be even more awesomeness baked in by then. :)

Taking a look at this really makes me wish that HP would either open source their Enyo mobile app JavaScript framework or find a good home for it.

There are some great ideas in this framework (such as the YAML layout) that Enyo could use.

Seconded. I watched the Enyo presentation and it blew me away- the fact that it might end up in some special level of corporate hell makes me very sad indeed.

I saw a presentation on Enyo at CapitolJS, where I also announced that Toura would be open-sourcing Mulberry, and indeed, there are a lot of similarities. I too would like to get some clarity about what HP intends to do with it :)

I'm new to this kind of things. So how does this work? Does the result consist of a app that "only" has a embedded HTML renderer and it loads your HTML/JS/CSS files in there, or do they somehow translate your HTML stuff into whatever the native language for the chosen platform is (obj-c,java,...)?

Also I noticed they link to PhoneGap on this page, how are this two products related?

Looks like it embeds a web view with your content. If you want to translate Javascript into native apps, Check out Titanium.

PhoneGap is the wrapper app - you don't have to use this toolkit with PhoneGap, you can use any HTML/CSS/JS you want. Most useful if you have a mobile site and want to add camera support.

Basically, Toura Mulberry uses PhoneGap as a wrapper around a "single-page" application that's powered by the Mulberry JavaScript/HTML/CSS framework. The command-line tools in Mulberry help you quickly scaffold the structure, content, and customizations for your app. The "builder" portion of Mulberry takes your content, prepares it to be consumed by the JS/HTML/CSS framework, and places it inside a PhoneGap project template so that it can be "built" for testing and submission to app stores.

This is all explained in a bit more depth here: https://github.com/Toura/mulberry/wiki/An-Overview-of-the-Mu.... Hope this helps :)

thanks!

Cool!

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