AppStudio Course

AppStudio Training

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Course length: 4 days

1. Opening remarks

History of NS BASIC and AppStudio

Preview of next 4 days

Let me know if…

2. Hello World - Demonstration

Load sample and run it

3. Tour of the IDE

File Menus

Design Screen

ToolBox

Project Explorer

Properties Window

Code Window

Wiki

4. Lab Session 1: Hello World

Joint step by step with entire class

5. Frameworks

jQuery Mobile

qWidgets

iWebKit

Others

6. Some Controls in depth

Label

Button

TextBox

HeaderBar

List

Form

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

8. Fundamentals of BASIC

Variables

Control structures

Importing VB code

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

Introduction

AJAX

Asynchronous Calls

JSON

JSONP

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

PictureBox: images, text and sprites

Multimedia: Audio and Video

Social media: Twitter and Facebook

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

15. Saving Data: SQLite and localStorage

Chrome Debugger Resources tab

16. Lab Session 5: Saving data

17. Mobile Device Features

Camera

Emoji

Compass

Geolocation

Accelerometer

18. Lab Session 6: Play with Features

19. avaScript, HTML, CSS

What’s behind the scenes?

20. iOS and Android

Quirks, things to know

Dealing with different screensizes

21. Deploying

Differences between Demo and AppStudioEDU

Servers

PHP

Website vs hybrid

PhoneGap

Chrome Packaged Apps