I was inspired to write this post by several recent conversations. I was in a debate about whether with the Flex/Flash platform you could easily repurpose content to the desktop using Adobe AIR (and vice-versa), but that you couldn’t easily do that with PhoneGap applications. (My stance was that yes, you could repurpose content.) I […]
Category Archives: open source
Linked Source Files Across PhoneGap Projects on OSX
If you are manually building PhoneGap projects across multiple platforms, managing source files can sometimes become a little bit tricky. If you are building for Android, you need a project within Eclipse. If you are building for iOS, you need a project within Xcode. If you are building for both, you need to make sure […]
Adobe’s View of Flex & Future Commitment
Adobe has just published a white paper detailing current views and future commitments to Apache Flex. Included topics are contributions to Apache, commitments to the Flash platform, and commitments to Adobe customers. I strongly recommend that all Flex developers and project stakeholders read this: Adobe’s view of Flex and its commitments to Flex in […]
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 […]
2012 Flex User Group Tour: North America Dates Announced
If you hadn’t heard already, Flex has been accepted by the Apache Software Foundation. If you are wondering what exactly this means, or you have asked yourself any of the following questions, then you might want to check out the Adobe Flex User Group Tour: Do you want to learn more about the future of […]
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 […]
Flex Accepted by Apache Software Foundation
In case you did not see the post on the Flex Team blog on Dec. 31st, it was announced that Flex has officially been accepted by the Apache Software Foundation. You can view the Apache Flex proposal on the Apache incubator wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/FlexProposal. Apache Flex allows developers to target a variety of platforms, initially […]
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 […]