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 […]
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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 […]
Presentations From Dreamforce 2012
I recently returned from a great trip to San Francisco, CA, where I was able to attend Dreamforce – Salesforce.com‘s annual conference. Dreamforce is probably the biggest conference I’ve ever attended, with 90,000 registered attendees consuming the entire Moscone Center and all of downtown San Francisco. While only a small portion of those attendees were technical/developers, it […]
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. […]
Folding HTML Views in App-UI
A few months back I released App-UI, a UI container toolkit for creating HTML experiences. It gives you common “view navigator” paradigms for mobile experiences… a view navigator stack that can push and pop views, a split view navigator, and a “sliding view” like Facebook’s iOS experience. All of which are created entirely with […]
Transcript From Open Session on PhoneGap/Cordova
Many thanks to everyone who attended today’s open session on PhoneGap hosted by myself, Raymond Camden, and Piotr Walczyszyn. Thank you for the great questions and feedback! You can access a full transcript from the open session below. Please ignore typos, it was a live Q&A session. Answered Questions (78) ————————– 1. Steven Benjamin: How […]
Using HTML/JS Templates to Generate More Than Just HTML
I recently worked on an application that was used to demonstrate the process of capturing data from a mobile application created using PhoneGap, and pushing that data into a LiveCycle server’s workflow engine. Since my data was being captured and stored locally as JSON objects, I asked myself “why can’t I use a template to […]
Enterprise Android Apps W/ PhoneGap
Here are my presentation slides and extra content from last night’s DC Droids meetup. I gave the presentation “Enterprise Android Applications With PhoneGap“. There were excellent questions and conversations at last night’s event – Thank you everyone for attending, and making it a great meetup. You can view the presentation here: Or access the presentation […]
“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 […]