Misc: I'd embed the "getting started video" above the fold with a big white arrow over it. Maybe shorten the highlight video to 30 seconds and say "Check it out in 30 seconds".
At first I thought less people would be interested in the video - I was wrong. I've been getting similar feedback about the video. I'll shorten it and make it more prominent.
1. If you need to do anything native, like use the camera or GPS for something, then I recommend you trigger navigating to those screens by either using Stacker's javascript bridge or by writing a custom URL action (http://www.lokimeyburg.com/Stacker/docs/custom-actions/).
You're still going to be responsible for doing the native screens. This is by design and kind of nice because my experience with apps are that most of the screens could just be done in HTML/CSS and there's usually only one or two screens that need to be implemented natively.
2. Check out my example to see how I'm doing using a regular UITabBarController. That might give you an idea of where to start.
You might enjoy App.js, http://code.kik.com/app/2/index.html
Misc: I'd embed the "getting started video" above the fold with a big white arrow over it. Maybe shorten the highlight video to 30 seconds and say "Check it out in 30 seconds".
Good luck!