I’ve recently encountered some grumblings from the development community that Apple has rejected their PhoneGap apps for not being “native enough”. By itself, that doesn’t surprise me too much – Apple has very strict rules/guidelines on what they will and will not accept into the App Store. What did surprise me is that people were […]
Category Archives: Cordova
Folding HTML Views in App-UI
A few months back I released App-UI, a UI container toolkit for creating HTML experiences. It gives you common “view navigator” paradigms for mobile experiences… a view navigator stack that can push and pop views, a split view navigator, and a “sliding view” like Facebook’s iOS experience. All of which are created entirely with […]
Upcoming Changes with PhoneGap 2.1 & iOS 6
Are you using PhoneGap/Apache Cordova for iOS development? If so, you’ll definitely want to pay attention to the upcoming PhoneGap 2.1 release. If you haven’t seen it already, be sure to check out Shazron’s post: 11 upcoming changes for Cordova iOS 2.1. Changes include Automatic Rererecnce Counting (ARC) support, an updated Native-JavaScript bridge, diagnostics, and […]
Transcript From Open Session on PhoneGap/Cordova
Many thanks to everyone who attended today’s open session on PhoneGap hosted by myself, Raymond Camden, and Piotr Walczyszyn. Thank you for the great questions and feedback! You can access a full transcript from the open session below. Please ignore typos, it was a live Q&A session. Answered Questions (78) ————————– 1. Steven Benjamin: How […]
Enterprise Android Apps W/ PhoneGap
Here are my presentation slides and extra content from last night’s DC Droids meetup. I gave the presentation “Enterprise Android Applications With PhoneGap“. There were excellent questions and conversations at last night’s event – Thank you everyone for attending, and making it a great meetup. You can view the presentation here: Or access the presentation […]
Open Session on PhoneGap/Cordova
Do you have questions about PhoneGap and/or Apache Cordova that you’d like answered from Adobe? If so, here’s your chance! On August 28th at 1:00 PM EDT (10:00 AM PDT) Adobe’s technical evangelists will be hosting a two hour open session on Adobe Connect, where anyone can join and ask questions. It’s an open session, so […]
“Open With” in iOS PhoneGap Apps
Let’s say that you have a PhoneGap app that has access to documents, but you want to open those documents in a different application outside of your PhoneGap application. For example, let’s say you have a DRM-protected PDF document that gets authenticated by an Adobe LiveCycle server. On iOS devices, the DRM can […]
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 […]
Emulating PhoneGap/Cordova Apps in the Desktop Browser
Earlier this month the PhoneGap team held the first PhoneGap day. This was in part to celebrate the release of PhoneGap 2.0, but more importantly to bring together members of the PhoneGap community to share and learn from each other. There are great recaps of PhoneGap Day from RedMonk, as well as on the […]
Questions and Myths About PhoneGap
Last week I posted on the PhoneGap blog “Questions And Myths About PhoneGap“. It has a bunch of content, and if you’ve been wondering/ questioning the use of PhoneGap, you should definitely check it out. It covers: What is the difference between PhoneGap and Apache Cordova? Why is the PhoneGap Roadmap so short? How much does a […]