JavaScript for Line of Business Applications

By the 5th of January I had a laptop and a couple of days to spend on some development. Having estimated what I can do here, I decided to create a mobile app that would work faster than the original. For this, I needed to find communicative creators of a popular app.

Hence, I found a “Spender ” app in the App Store. It is a simple app for tracking your budget. With it, you can estimate how effectively you spend your money in the end of each month. By the 5th of January, this app was in Top-10 in the Russian App Store. I also found their dev-story on iphones.ru. 

In their dev-story, the developers wrote that after completing their previous project, they had three-four free days. So, they decided to create a new app during this free time. Their Product Manager and programmers helped them with positioning the app and its key features. 

PhoneJS is a cross-platform HTML5 mobile app development framework that was built to be versatile, flexible and efficient. PhoneJS is a single page application (SPA) framework, with view management and URL routing. Its layout engine allows you to abstract navigation away from views, so the same app can be rendered differently across different platforms or form factors. PhoneJS includes a rich collection of touch-optimized UI widgets with built-in styles for today’s most popular mobile platforms including iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 8.

To better understand the principles of PhoneJS development and how you can create and publish applications in platform stores, let’s take a look at a simple  demo app called TipCalculator. This application calculates tip amounts due based on a restaurant bill.

* PhoneJS Application Layout and Routing
* PhoneJS ViewModel
* PhoneJS Views
* Start, Debug and Build for Stores
* Creating Store Ready Applications Using PhoneJS and PhoneGap