AppStudio Course

AppStudio Training

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Course length 4 days

1. Opening remarks

1. History of NS BASIC and AppStudio]]
2. Preview of next 4 days
3. Let me know if…

2. Hello World - Demonstration

1. Load sample and run it

3. Tour of the IDE

1. File Menus
2. Design Screen
3. ToolBox
4. Project Explorer
5. Properties Window
6. Code Window
7. Wiki

4. Lab Session 1: Hello World

1. Joint step by step with entire class

5. Frameworks

1. jQuery Mobile
2. jqWidgets
3. iWebKit
4. Others

6. Some Controls in depth

1. Label
2. Button
3. TextBox
4. HeaderBar
5. List
6. Form

7. Lab Session 2: Create an app with some Controls. The app will be built on in subsequent labs.

8. Fundamentals of BASIC

1. Variables
2. Control structures
3. Importing VB code
4. A few interesting statements

9. Chrome Debugger Sources Tab Console Tab

10. Lab Session 3: Fix a program with syntax errors and make some enhancements.

11. Web Services

1. Introduction
2. AJAX
3. Asynchronous Calls
4. JSON
5. JSONP
6. XML

12. Lab Session 4: Pull in some data from a Weather site and display the data in an app.

13. MultiMedia and Social Media

1. PictureBox images, text and sprites
2. Multimedia Audio and Video
3. Social media Twitter and Facebook

14. Lab Session 5: Add Twitter feed to the app.

15. Saving Data SQLite and localStorage

1. Chrome Debugger Resources tab

16. Lab Session 5: Saving data

17. Mobile Device Features

1. Camera
2. Emoji
3. Compass
4. Geolocation
5. Accelerometer

18. Lab Session 6: Play with Features

19. JavaScript, HTML, CSS

1. What’s behind the scenes?

20. iOS and Android

1. Quirks, things to know
2. Dealing with different screensizes

21. Deploying

1. Differences between Demo and AppStudioEDU
2. Servers
3. PHP
4. Website vs hybrid
5. PhoneGap
6. Chrome Packaged Apps