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 […]
Category Archives: JavaScript
“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 […]
Using Adobe Edge Animations As Components
You’ve probably heard of Adobe Edge, a timeline-based tool for creating interactive and animated HTML content. Edge enables you to easily create interactive experiences that rely only on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. If you’ve used other Adobe Creative Suite tools, such as Flash Professional, Premiere, or After Effects, then Edge will probably look quite familiar. […]
Upcoming Conferences & Presentations
I’ll be speaking at a few conferences in the next few months on PhoneGap and web standards-based development. Here are just a few, with some more pending. Be sure to come check one out (or all of them)! RIACON www.riacon.com WHERE: Washington, DC WHEN: Aug 6-7, 2012 Where architects and developers of all levels come […]
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 […]
Getting rid of the “Gray Box” in PhoneGap for Windows Phone
If you’ve ever used a Windows Phone device’s web browser, then you have probably noticed the gray highlight that the Windows Phone browser puts on top of the HTML content any time that you click on a link. For static web pages, this isn’t a big deal. It indicates that you have clicked on an […]