Tag Archives: mobile

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 […]

Stage3D & Flex Demo w/ Source

Back in the summer, I was lucky enough to get my hands on some early builds of Stage3D for mobile. I built some simple examples, including basic geometric shapes and simple 3D bubble charts inside of mobile Flex/AIR applications. I have been asked numerous times for the source code, and I’ve finally given in, and […]

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 […]

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 […]

Introducing the US Census Browser Application

I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce you to a new project I’ve been working on to showcase enterprise-class data visualization in HTML-based applications.   The US Census Browser is an open source application for browsing data from the 2010 US Census. The app is completely written using HTML and JavaScript, even for the […]

360|Flex 2012

Get ready for 360|Flex 2012! What better place to network and learn the latest about Flex development for mobile, the desktop, and the browser? 360|Flex is a chance to interact with the community and even get involved in the open-source Apache Flex project. The 360|Flex 2012 schedule is now available, and it’s loaded with great […]