Today Raymond Camden and I hosted another open session on PhoneGap as part of an Adobe TechLive event. These sessions are an opportunity for anyone to stop in and ask us questions. The Q&A transcript from today’s session is below. Thanks to everyone for sticking around, and bearing through our technical difficulties – The normal Q&A […]
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Connected Second-Screen App Experiences with PhoneGap & Audio Watermarks
In January 2012, I started the year with a post on multi-screen applications developed with PhoneGap. In that post, I describe an approach for creating mobile applications that extend the app experience onto a second screen – where the mobile device drives the content on that second screen… essentially having an “external monitor” capability on […]
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 […]
Automated UI Testing in PhoneGap Apps
I normally don’t write posts to talk about a specific product from another company, but this is the first product that I have seen which lets you do automated UI testing in PhoneGap applications, so I figured I’d share… Automated testing is often a critical step in enterprise application development. I’m sure most everyone out […]
PhoneGap, Apple Rejections & UI/UX Guidelines
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]