I often encourage people to develop as much as possible in desktop browsers when they are building PhoneGap applications. While there are remote debugging tools such as weinre for remote debugging on devices, the developer experience is still better inside of a desktop browser because it gives you breakpoints and memory inspection capabilities. In most […]
Tag Archives: HTML5
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 […]
Slides from “Introduction to Mobile Development with PhoneGap”
As promised, here are the slides from my presentation “Introduction to Mobile Development with PhoneGap” from the MobileDev@TU meetup last night. Many thanks to Towson University for hosting the event and inviting me to speak! You can download the slides here: Intro To PhoneGap Here are quick links from the presentation: Get started with PhoneGap today! […]
Repurposing PhoneGap Apps as Desktop Apps
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 […]
“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 […]
Fun Apps w/ PhoneGap
Here’s a silly/fun app I built ‘after hours’ using PhoneGap. It is a children’s drawing app built entirely with the HTML5 Canvas element, using a PhoneGap wrapper, targeting the iPad. I was inspired by magnetic drawing toys that I often use when drawing with my daughter, and this was really, really easy and a […]
Bleeding Edge HTML5, WebRTC & Device Access
The world is changing… and oh my, it is changing fast. In the not-too-distant future, many capabilities that were exclusive to plugin-based content will be accessible to the HTML/JavaScript world without any plugin dependencies. This includes access to media devices (microphone and camera), as well as real time communications. You might be […]
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 […]
Mobile Web & PhoneGap HTML Dev Tips
Recently I’ve been spending a fair amount of time working on HTML-based applications – both mobile web and mobile applications using PhoneGap. Regardless of whether you are targeting a mobile web browser or a mobile app using the PhoneGap container, you are still targeting a mobile web browser instance. If you haven’t noticed, mobile […]
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 […]