Here’s a silly/fun app I built ‘after hours’ using PhoneGap. It is a children’s drawing app built entirely with the HTML5 Canvas element, using a PhoneGap wrapper, targeting the iPad. I was inspired by magnetic drawing toys that I often use when drawing with my daughter, and this was really, really easy and a […]
Category Archives: JavaScript
Bleeding Edge HTML5, WebRTC & Device Access
The world is changing… and oh my, it is changing fast. In the not-too-distant future, many capabilities that were exclusive to plugin-based content will be accessible to the HTML/JavaScript world without any plugin dependencies. This includes access to media devices (microphone and camera), as well as real time communications. You might be […]
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 […]
Mobile Web & PhoneGap HTML Dev Tips
Recently I’ve been spending a fair amount of time working on HTML-based applications – both mobile web and mobile applications using PhoneGap. Regardless of whether you are targeting a mobile web browser or a mobile app using the PhoneGap container, you are still targeting a mobile web browser instance. If you haven’t noticed, mobile […]
Multi-Screen iOS Apps with PhoneGap
Did you know that apps built on top of iOS can have a multi-screen workflow? For example in Keynote, you can have an external screen show a presentation while you control it on your iOS device. In the Jimi Hendrix app, you can view the audio player on an external screen, and in Real Racing HD, you […]
Realtime Data & Your Applications
After spending some time playing around sketching with the HTML5 canvas element earlier this week, I figured “why not add some ‘enterprise’ concepts to this example?”… Next thing you know we’ve got a multi-device shared sketching/collaboration experience. To keep things straightforward, I chose to demonstrate the near-realtime collaboration using a short-interval HTTP poll. HTTP polling […]
Capturing User Signatures in Mobile Applications
One growing trend that I have seen in mobile & tablet applications is the creation of tools that enable your workforce to perform their job better. This can be in the case of mobile data retrieval, streamlined sales process with apps for door-to-door sales, mobile business process efficiency, etc… One of the topics that comes […]
Toying with Realtime Data & Web Sockets
Recently I was acting as a “second set of eyes” to help out fellow Adobe Evangelist Kevin Hoyt track down a quirk with a websockets example that he was putting together. Kevin has a great writeup to familiarize yourself with web sockets & streaming communication that I highly recommend checking out. While working with Kevin’s […]
Introducing the US Census Browser Application
I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce you to a new project I’ve been working on to showcase enterprise-class data visualization in HTML-based applications. The US Census Browser is an open source application for browsing data from the 2010 US Census. The app is completely written using HTML and JavaScript, even for the […]
Building PhoneGap Applications With Dreamweaver
Update (3/28/2012): Hi Everyone, I know there have been lots of questions about PhoneGap + Android SDK, and lots of headaches because Google’s Android SDK keeps changing and breaking the Dreamweaver integration. Fret not! There is an easier way — Adobe has released a plugin to integrate Dreamweaver with PhoneGap Build. With this plugin, you […]