Ray and I have just concluded another Adobe TechLive Open Session on PhoneGap. These sessions are an opportunity for anyone to stop in and ask us questions. Thanks to everyone who attended and submitted their questions. We will be hosting more of these sessions in the future. You can also download a transcript of this […]
Category Archives: PhoneGap
Video: Native vs. Hybrid vs. Web
Here’s a video from the “What Developers Love and Hate about iOS, Android, Windows and HTML5” panel discussion that I took part in during MoDev East back in December. The panelists represented native app developers, HTML/web developers, and myself-representing the HTML/hybrid app paradigm. I thought it was a great discussion, and nearly everyone acknowledged the benefits […]
My Workflow for Developing PhoneGap Applications
I am asked all the time “How do I get started developing PhoneGap applications?”. My normal answer is to advise people to check out the PhoneGap Getting Started Guides, which provide a great starting point for every platform. However after further thought, I’m not sure this is always what people are asking. Rather than “how […]
Transcript from Open Session On PhoneGap
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 […]
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. […]