Case Study: Lessons from Building a Social Media App using PhoneGap

A talk with Andrey Feldman and Nick Van Weerdenburg

In this talk from the PhoneGapTO Meetup, Sprout at Work's VP of product Andrey Feldman and Rangle.io's CEO Nick Van Weerdenburg discuss lessons learned from building Sprout at Work's comprehensive health and wellness social media application using PhoneGap.

Topics Covered
  • Challenges and technical constraints
  • Insight on when to use Ionic and Angular
  • How to build for the best performance on a wide variety of devices
  • Saving time and money with the right HTML5 strategy

Speaker's Bio:

Andrey Feldman

Andrey Feldman is the Vice President of Product at Sprout, leading the company’s Product Management and Engineering organizations. He first started writing code in 1994, and his passion for web and mobile technologies has only been growing since. He is especially passionate about elegant architecture, thin server, test driven development, and user focused design. Prior to joining Sprout, Andrey lead the Core Services Product Management team at BlackBerry. To hear more from Andrey, follow him on Twitter at @AndreyFeldman.

Nick Van Weerdenburg

Nick is Rangle.io’s founder, first developer, and now leads the company’s business development and strategy activities. Nick first did server-side JavaScript in 1997 and has 15 years of experience in web software in diverse roles and industries. He is a firm believer in the thin-server, full-JavaScript stack and an active speaker, delivering about a dozen talks each year. To hear more from Nick, follow him on Twitter at @n1cholasv.