“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 […]

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 […]

Transcript from Open Session on PhoneGap

Yesterday Raymond Camden and I hosted an open session on PhoneGap. It was an opportunity for the community (you) to ask us questions. There was a great turnout, and we’ll likely be hosting another one of these sessions in the near future. Thanks to everyone who attended!  Check these links to see the full Q&A […]

A Response to “Shell Apps and Silver Bullets”

There is an article floating around the web today, warning against “Shell Apps” and tools like PhoneGap.  The logic in this article has a few arguments that are misleading, and I’d like to introduce some counter arguments as they relate to PhoneGap and HTML experiences for comparison. The “Silver Bullet” First, the “Silver Bullet” argument… I have […]

Rapid Prototyping With PhoneGap

Last week I gave a presentation to a local DC Meetup group on “Rapid Prototyping with PhoneGap“. The main takeaways are: PhoneGap is great for rapid prototyping. Don’t limit yourself to a prototype! PhoneGap is awesome for building real-world production applications targeting multiple platforms! You can check out my presentation here: Rapid Prototyping with PhoneGap.pdf […]