I am asked all the time “How do I get started developing PhoneGap applications?”. My normal answer is to advise people to check out the PhoneGap Getting Started Guides, which provide a great starting point for every platform. However after further thought, I’m not sure this is always what people are asking. Rather than “how […]
Category Archives: Apps
Debugging On-Device PhoneGap Applications with “Charles” Network Proxy
Have you ever been testing or developing an application, and things just don’t seem to be working as you’ve expected? Just imagine that the data that you are receiving from the server isn’t exactly what you’d expect… even worse, what if this is happening in an application that you’ve already released to the app store, […]
Halloween Fun with PhoneGap
About two weeks ago I had a random thought… “Wouldn’t it be fun to build a free Halloween sound effects app using PhoneGap?” (I tend to get excited for any holiday). I had already done a lot of work using sounds in PhoneGap apps with my LowLatencyAudio native plugin, so the groundwork had already been […]
Using HTML/JS Templates to Generate More Than Just HTML
I recently worked on an application that was used to demonstrate the process of capturing data from a mobile application created using PhoneGap, and pushing that data into a LiveCycle server’s workflow engine. Since my data was being captured and stored locally as JSON objects, I asked myself “why can’t I use a template to […]
Presentations: Intro To PhoneGap, Web Data Viz & PhoneGap Native Plugins
As promised, here are my presentation slides and extra content from last week’s RIACon conference. I gave three presentations: “Intro to PhoneGap”, “Data Visualization With Web Standards”, and “PhoneGap Native Plugins”. All of the presentations are freely available at: https://github.com/triceam/Presentations. Intro To PhoneGap Click to view presentation PhoneGap is an application container that allows you to […]
Lil’ Doodle Source Code Now Available
Back in January I released Lil’ Doodle, a children’s drawing application for the iPad built with PhoneGap. Lil’ Doodle is meant for a simple sketch-and-erase experience similar to a children’s magnetic drawing toy, powered entirely by JavaScript and the HTML5 Canvas element. You can see a video of it in action below: I’ve decided […]
Introducing the Fresh Food Finder, an open source PhoneGap application
The Fresh Food Finder is an open source mobile application built using PhoneGap (Apache Cordova) that helps users locate local farmers markets that are registered with the FDA. You can search for specific markets, or find the closest markets to your current location. Check out the video below to see it in action: It […]
A Response to “Shell Apps and Silver Bullets”
There is an article floating around the web today, warning against “Shell Apps” and tools like PhoneGap. The logic in this article has a few arguments that are misleading, and I’d like to introduce some counter arguments as they relate to PhoneGap and HTML experiences for comparison. The “Silver Bullet” First, the “Silver Bullet” argument… I have […]
Introducing app-UI
I’d like to take a moment and introduce app-UI, a new open source application framework that I’ve been working on. app-UI is a collection of reusable “application container” user interface components that may be helpful to web and mobile developers for creating interactive applications using HTML and JavaScript, especially those targeting mobile devices. app-UI is […]
Welcome Appliness!
Appliness is a new digital magazine and the first of it’s kind to focus entirely on web application development! Appliness was created entirely using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, and the effort was lead by our own Michael Chaize. Go download a copy today! It’s also FREE! Be sure to also check out […]