Join Stephen Gates, Vice President and Creative Director of Global Brand Design at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, and Stephen Santiago, Director of Mobile & API at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, to learn the design and development secrets behind building Starwood's mobile roadmap. See how Starwood continues to launch award-winning, multiplatform mobile apps and mobile websites.The session will cover:• How to create a successful roadmap for mobile apps and mobile websites• Techniques for getting buy-in on your mobile roadmap at your company• Design and development insights learned from creating complex iOS and Android apps for smartphones and tablets, including the creation of Starwood's pioneering state-aware UI design concept• Insights learned from Starwood's work to completely redesign its mobile websites for nine brands in nine languages

Does your game need to integrate with the iOS Game Center? How about including an in-app purchasing system? Learn how to go beyond the standard ActionScript API when developing mobile games with Adobe AIR, part of the Adobe Game Developer Tools in the Adobe Creative Cloud. Come to this session to understand and learn in more detail how to:• Write your own extension using native code, and develop the ActionScript API that wraps it• Package a native extension, and reuse it during your game development• Leverage third-party native extensions available today

Come learn how the team at Pound & Grain designed and built a PhoneGap application from scratch while working with Adobe's Agency Partner Program. The application is built with jQuery Mobile, CSS3 transitions and animations, and the Parse API for storing data. In this session, Sandy Fleischer from Pound & Grain will talk about:• The reasons behind the team's technology choices• The team's design/development process for creating the application• PhoneGap's advantages and disadvantages• Tips and tricks for performance, extending PhoneGap, and making the app feel native

The Brackets open source project provides a playground for experimenting with new ideas in web tooling. Built in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, anything is possible through Brackets extensions. This session will take you through the necessary steps to build your first extension. Kevin Dangoor, lead contributor to the Brackets open source project, willdiscuss:• Detailed review of the brackets extension API• How to structure and build extensions• Setup for debugging and testing extensions• Sharing your extension with the community

Learn how to work with Adobe Edge Tools & Services to design and create content for mobile devices. Serge Jespers, Adobe solutions architect and evangelist, will walk through building a mobile application using the tools and services in the Edge family.In this session, you'll learn how to:• Design mobile-ready user interfaces in Edge Animate• Make your Edge Animate project ready for code• Add JQuery and PhoneGap API calls in Edge Code• Test your project on multiple devices with Edge Inspect• Build a mobile application installer with PhoneGap Build

Adobe Edge is not limited to sexy web animations; you can also build apps and integrate third-party APIs easily. In this lesson, connect to Twitter, pull tweets, and visualize them using an item renderer built using Edge, thereby learning how to consume APIs and create elements programmatically within Edge.

Developer Evangelist Kevin Hoyt explains the functionality of the File API, which allows browser-based applications to access data from local (client-side) files without uploading them first.

Developer Evangelist Kevin Hoyt discusses the WebSocket API, which provides a persistent connection between browser and server enabling data push and other compelling real-time messaging uses.

Join Developer Evangelist Kevin Hoyt for this thorough series on web standards, starting with a clarification of the various HTML5 browser specifications and an overview of the emerging APIs covered in this series’ seven lessons.

Developer Evangelist Raymond Camden discusses the Storage API built into PhoneGap by highlighting the high-performance features of the embedded database system, which is especially useful for developing mobile apps.