Building Hybrid Android Applications Using Java and Javascript ― Applying Native Device Apis

Learn how to build HTML5-based Android applications that use native Java components without needing 3rd party libraries and wrappers like PhoneGap or Titanium. You can reach needed native interfaces (such as Location, Vibrator, Sensors, File, Camera and others) using a JavaScript/Java bridge within your application, and choose whichever language gives you more performance for different tasks.

Nizametttin Gok (aka Nizam) has more than 15 years of experience in client-side applications. He has involved in designing, developing and managing large-scale web applications for many years. He then transformed these outstanding experiences into mobile application space during his career in Japan.

Nizam believes that the invention of Ajax technology was a turning point for the client-side applications. For this reason, his focus in using JavaScript in mobile web applications brought him into hybrid applications for Android platform. He is very passionate about implementing excellent User Experiences.

His personal interest is web application security and he currently maintains geoxies.com (preventing fraudelent activities) in his free time. Nizam has also managed from small to large-scale teams an offshore teams successfully.

He is currently working at Microsoft as a Sr. Software Development Engineer for Skype Android platform.

Nitin Khanna is a lead engineer for Android at Skype, with an extensive experience in mobile application development for Android, iOS, Symbian and BREW. In his free time Nitin likes to contribute to open source projects. He also has experience in OS middleware and protocol stack development.