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: iOS
Introducing “Walkable” – A New Sample App for PhoneGap
I’d like to take a moment and introduce “Walkable Restaurants” (or just “Walkable” as I like to call it), a new application that I built to demonstrate how to create PhoneGap applications using Backbone.js. Walkable Restaurants provides you with an easy way to find a bite to eat or refreshing drink anywhere in the US. […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
MegaList jQuery Plugin
I’ve been working on lots of different projects lately. On several of them, I’ve had the need for a reusable list component. In some cases, it needed to handle a large data set, in others it just needed to be self-contained and easy to use. Out of these projects came MegaList: a reusable list […]
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 […]