Recently I’ve undertaken some explorations with fellow evangelist Kevin Hoyt, trying to determine how far we can push PhoneGap applications with devices and physical computing. Turns out, you can push things really far and now I’m delighted to share one of the experiments that we’ve been pursuing. I’ve been asked on more than one occasion, can you […]
Category Archives: HTML5
DataVizDC Meetup: Images, Resources & Audio Recording
Last night I had the opportunity to give a presentation on Data Visualization With Web Standards to the DataVizDC meetup group. First of all, I’d like to thank the meetup group for hosting the event, and thank you to everyone who attended – It was a great event thanks to the excitement and energy brought […]
Getting Started With Adobe Edge Web Fonts
Amongst the big announcements last week, you may not have noticed that the Adobe Edge Web Fonts got a huge upgrade too! It’s now easier than ever to browse web fonts and include them into your own HTML experiences. All for free, with no Creative Cloud membership required! Check out the video below to see […]
Live Editing Server Files with Edge Code/Brackets
If you haven’t already heard of Adobe Edge Code or Brackets, it is a new HTML/CSS/JS code editor that enables a rapid development cycle by connecting directly to your browser for automatic real-time updates to the HTML content running inside the browser. This promotes rapid development, and allows you to focus on writing your code […]
Enabling Gestures in Edge Animate Compositions
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been working a lot lately with Adobe Edge Animate, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe DPS. Here’s another post on that same subject. Another request that I have gotten from some of our DPS customers is that they’d like to be able to implement gestures inside of the Edge […]
Adding Dimensionality To An Edge Animate Composition
Lately I’ve been spending a lot more time working with Adobe Edge Animate, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe DPS. If you aren’t familiar with these tools, Adobe Edge Animate is a tool that enables the creation of animated or interactive HTML content, Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing design tool, and Adobe DPS is Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite, […]
PhoneGap Legends – A Sample Game App
Next week I’ll be representing Adobe at GDC 2013, and demonstrating how Adobe Creative Cloud, PhoneGap, and PhoneGap Build can be great tools for building casual gaming experiences. In preparation, I’ve been working on a gaming sample application that shows off the potential of HTML games packaged with PhoneGap. …and now I’d like to introduce you to PhoneGap […]
On-Device Debugging With PhoneGap & iOS 6
Want to debug your PhoneGap apps, complete with breakpoints, DOM & CSS inspection, profiling, and more? This is all possible with the PhoneGap Emulator, which allows you to leverage Chrome’s Developer Tools inside of the desktop Chrome browser (covered in detail here). However, did you also know that you can have a rich debugging/development experience in an […]
Video: Adobe Edge Inspect
Here’s a quick video introduction I put together for Adobe Edge Inspect, a *free* tool that enables synchronized browsing and debugging of HTML content between desktop and mobile devices. It’s definitely worth checking out, if you aren’t using it already. Adobe Edge Inspect enables synchronized browsing across desktop and mobile devices. By pairing your devices […]
Performance & UX Considerations For Successful PhoneGap Apps
I think some of the most common questions people ask when developing PhoneGap apps are about performance. How do I make my app faster? How do I make it feel native? Any tips of making an app feel at-home on a particular platform? How do you match native OS “look and feel”? In this post, […]