I see questions and comments all the time with the general sentiment “it looks nice, but who really uses PhoneGap/Apache Cordova?”. There is no way to create a definitive list of everyone who uses it, but the general answer is “more people than you think”. Here are a few organizations that you might recognize who […]
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PhoneGap Explained Visually
I’ve been “out and about” lately, attending tech conferences, meetup groups, and meeting with developers in their offices, and I am getting great feedback on mobile development and PhoneGap. There are some common questions that I am often asked, and I hope this post helps everyone understand PhoneGap better. PhoneGap Before I go too far, […]
Changes with PhoneGap 1.5
Earlier this month, PhoneGap 1.5 was released. There were a lot of enhancements in this release. However, if you’ve tried to update an existing codebase from PhoneGap 1.4 to 1.5, you may have realized that things look a bit different. Basically, the entire PhoneGap codebase has migrated from PhoneGap naming to Apache Cordova […]
Slides from “Introduction to Mobile Development with PhoneGap”
As promised, here are the slides from my presentation “Introduction to Mobile Development with PhoneGap” from the MobileDev@TU meetup last night. Many thanks to Towson University for hosting the event and inviting me to speak! You can download the slides here: Intro To PhoneGap Here are quick links from the presentation: Get started with PhoneGap today! […]
PhoneGap on Windows Phone via OSX
I am embarking on a new PhoneGap project that will have to run on many platforms… iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone. This will actually be my first foray into modern Window Phone development. (I did some experimental work with the Windows Mobile platform many years ago, but a lot has changed since then.) One of […]
Repurposing PhoneGap Apps as Desktop Apps
I was inspired to write this post by several recent conversations. I was in a debate about whether with the Flex/Flash platform you could easily repurpose content to the desktop using Adobe AIR (and vice-versa), but that you couldn’t easily do that with PhoneGap applications. (My stance was that yes, you could repurpose content.) I […]
Linked Source Files Across PhoneGap Projects on OSX
If you are manually building PhoneGap projects across multiple platforms, managing source files can sometimes become a little bit tricky. If you are building for Android, you need a project within Eclipse. If you are building for iOS, you need a project within Xcode. If you are building for both, you need to make sure […]
“What is PhoneGap?” & Other Common Questions
While looking at the analytics for my blog, I’ve recently started to see a lot of search phrases similar to “what is phonegap?”, “how does a phonegap app look?”, “how to get started in phonegap?”, among many, many others. In this post, I hope to shed some light on some basic questions to help […]
Stage3D & Flex Demo w/ Source
Back in the summer, I was lucky enough to get my hands on some early builds of Stage3D for mobile. I built some simple examples, including basic geometric shapes and simple 3D bubble charts inside of mobile Flex/AIR applications. I have been asked numerous times for the source code, and I’ve finally given in, and […]
Low Latency & Polyphonic Audio in PhoneGap
UPDATE 10/07/2013: This plugin has been updated to support PhoneGap 3.0 method signatures and command line interface. You can access the latest at: https://github.com/triceam/LowLatencyAudio If you have ever tried to develop any kind of application using HTML5 audio that is widely supported, then you have likely pulled all the hair from your head. In its current […]