Saleh H. - JavaScript Mobile Application Development

Hazem Saleh has 10 years of experience in Java EE, mobile, and open source technologies. He has worked as a technical consultant for many clients in Europe (Sweden), North America (USA and Canada), South America (Peru), Africa (Egypt, Morocco, and Zambia), and Asia (Qatar, Kuwait, and KSA). He is an Apache committer and a person who has spent many years of his life writing open source software. Besides being the author of JavaScript Unit Testing , Packt Publishing , and Pro JSF and HTML5: Building Rich Internet Components , Apress , and the co-author of The Definitive Guide to Apache MyFaces and Facelets , Apress , he has also authored many technical articles. He is also a contributing author recognized by developerWorks and a technical speaker at both local and international conferences such as ApacheCon in North America, GeeCon, JSFDays, CONFESS in Vienna, and JavaOne in San Francisco, Moscow, and Shanghai. Hazem is now working for IBM Egypt as an advisory software engineer. He is a member of the IBM Mobile Global Center of Competency (CoC) and an IBM Certified Expert IT specialist (L2).

I would like to thank my wife, Naglaa, for supporting me while writing this book. She has always motivated me to continue this long journey until its end. I definitely dedicate this book to her with love and pleasure. I would also like to thank my wonderful kids, Nada (4-year-old girl) and Ali (1-year-old boy), for always making me happy. I would like to thank my mother, father, brother, and sister for understanding why I was not available during many weekends as I was writing this book. A special thanks to everyone in the Apache Cordova community for making the development of cross-platform mobile apps much less painful than it could be. Finally, I would like to thank all the technical reviewers and editors for improving the content of this book.

Raymond, Xie Liming is a software R&D expert with experience of over 16 years working in multiple IT domains, including networking, multimedia IP communication, insurance, telecom, and mobile apps/games.

Raymond holds a Master's degree in Science from Fudan University. He is also a PMI-certified Project Management Professional.

He has worked as a senior manager for Softfoundry Singapore, eBaoTech, and the Ericsson Shanghai R&D center, leading an R&D team working on enterprise- and carrier-class software. In December 2013, Raymond founded his own company, RjFun Technologies, that focuses on mobile apps/games and also produces reusable components for them.

He has rich experience in R&D management and is also a software expert with hands-on architecting and development skills. He is very active on GitHub and the Cordova/PhoneGap community, where his nickname is "floatinghotpot".

He now lives with his wife, Jenny, in Shanghai, China.

Ranganadh Paramkusam holds a degree in Computer Science and Engineering. He began his career developing cross-platform applications for iOS, Android, and BlackBerry using PhoneGap, Sencha, and AngularJS. He has developed more than 30 mobile applications. He later started working with native code such as iOS and Java to create PhoneGap plugins to bring the native UI/UX in hybrid mobile applications.

Ranganadh developed plugins using Google's Native Client (NaCl) and Portable Native Client (PNaCl) to give a desktop application performance to web applications and created browser extensions using Google APIs for Google Chrome and Firefox. His works include a web-based image editor, text editor (a replica of Adobe's Brackets application), web-based image editor using the HTML5 Canvas element to apply the enhance, filter, resize, and various other effects, and chat application using Node.js and MongoDB. He also created an algorithm that synthesizes words and gives responses made by string patterns, which match and are developed using Python.

Ranganadh acquired the Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) certificate in 2010 and also certified for the Python language from MIT in 2013. He was awarded with Techno Geek for the year 2012-13 and Emerging Performer of the year 2013-14 for his works.

He aims at linking JavaScript to low- and medium-level languages, and he works with the C++, Python, Objective-C, and Java languages. He is currently working as a senior programmer in the Center Of Excellence (COE) department in Hidden Brains Infotech Pvt. Ltd., India. He is active on GitHub, the PhoneGap community, and stack overflow.

I would like to thank my family and friends for their support while working on all this stuff.

Juris Vecvanags started his career in the IT field in the early '90s. During this time, he had a chance to work with a broad range of technologies and share his knowledge with Fortune 500 companies as well as private and government customers.

Before moving to Silicon Valley, he had a well-established web design company in Europe. He is currently working as a senior solutions engineer for Sencha Inc., helping customers write better apps both for desktop and emerging mobile platforms. When it comes to web technologies, his invaluable experience makes him a trusted advisor and competent reviewer.

Away from the office, you will find him speaking at Meetups in the San Francisco Bay area and Chicago. The topics include Node.js, ExtJs, and Sencha Touch. He is passionate about bleeding-edge technologies and everything related to JavaScript.