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 […]

Introducing app-UI

I’d like to take a moment and introduce app-UI, a new open source application framework that I’ve been working on. app-UI is a collection of reusable “application container” user interface components that may be helpful to web and mobile developers for creating interactive applications using HTML and JavaScript, especially those targeting mobile devices. app-UI is […]

Welcome Appliness!

Appliness is a new digital magazine and the first of it’s kind to focus entirely on web application development!   Appliness was created entirely using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, and the effort was lead by our own Michael Chaize.   Go download a copy today!  It’s also FREE!   Be sure to also check out […]

PhoneGap Explained Visually

I’ve been “out and about” lately, attending tech conferences, meetup groups, and meeting with developers in their offices, and I am getting great feedback on mobile development and PhoneGap. There are some common questions that I am often asked, and I hope this post helps everyone understand PhoneGap better. PhoneGap Before I go too far, […]

Changes with PhoneGap 1.5

Earlier this month, PhoneGap 1.5 was released.   There were a lot of enhancements in this release.  However, if you’ve tried to update an existing codebase from PhoneGap 1.4 to 1.5, you may have realized that things look a bit different.   Basically, the entire PhoneGap codebase has migrated from PhoneGap naming to Apache Cordova […]

Welcome, Adobe Shadow!

Ready for the new era in multi-screen development? Available now on labs.adobe.com, Adobe Shadow is a new, free tool that enables synchronized browsing and remote inspection across desktop and mobile experiences, in real time. Rather than having me try to describe it, check out this video from Adobe TV… From Adobe Labs: Adobe® Shadow is […]

PhoneGap Native Plugins

UPDATE: In PhoneGap 1.5, the naming conventions were changed to use the Apache Cordova naming conventions.   EX: PGPlugin is now CDVPlugin, phonegap.js is now cordova.js, etc…   If you are running into issues, please be sure to check the PhoneGap version and appropriate naming conventions. ORIGINAL POST: Last night I attended a great Baltimore […]

AIR 3.2 & Flash Player 11.2 Release Candidates Available on Adobe Labs

AIR 3.2 and Flash Player 11.2 release candidates are now available for download on Adobe Labs. These latest versions have some exciting new features, including Stage3D for mobile devices, broader Stage3D support on desktop machines, multi-threaded video decoding, and better mouse support for gaming scenarios.   Get ready for some incredible mobile and desktop experiences powered […]

“What is PhoneGap?” & Other Common Questions

While looking at the analytics for my blog, I’ve recently started to see a lot of search phrases similar to “what is phonegap?”, “how does a phonegap app look?”, “how to get started in phonegap?”, among many, many others.   In this post, I hope to shed some light on some basic questions to help […]

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 […]