Mobile Orchard Podcast

PhoneGap offers a way of creating iPhone apps using HTML, JavaScript and CSS. PhoneGap provides JavaScript interfaces to location services, accelerometer, contacts, vibration and sound. What’s more, PhoneGap is cross-platform, so apps can run with little or no modification on Android and BlackBerry too. In this interview, Rob Ellis and Brock Whitten talk about how PhoneGap works, the mobile aspects of the HTML 5 spec, how to get started with PhoneGap, issues surrounding getting PhoneGap apps into the store and more.

Carlos Icaza and Walter Luh are the co-founders of Ansca Mobile and creators of Corona, a new & much talked-about Lua based kit for building native iPhone applications. This interview includes details about creating Corona; a comparison of the programming model, memory management, performance and optimization using Corona/Lua vs. Cocoa Touch/Objective-C; and Adobe’s upcoming iPhone Flash products.