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 Session on PhoneGap/Cordova

Do you have questions about PhoneGap and/or Apache Cordova that you’d like answered from Adobe?  If so, here’s your chance!  On August 28th at 1:00 PM EDT (10:00 AM PDT) Adobe’s technical evangelists will be hosting a two hour open session on Adobe Connect, where anyone can join and ask questions. It’s an open session, so […]

“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 […]

Presentations: Intro To PhoneGap, Web Data Viz & PhoneGap Native Plugins

As promised, here are my presentation slides and extra content from last week’s RIACon conference. I gave three presentations: “Intro to PhoneGap”, “Data Visualization With Web Standards”, and “PhoneGap Native Plugins”. All of the presentations are freely available at: https://github.com/triceam/Presentations. Intro To PhoneGap Click to view presentation PhoneGap is an application container that allows you to […]

PhoneGap 2.0 Released

PhoneGap 2.0 has just been released!  This is a great step forward for PhoneGap, with a much improved developer experience. New and improved features in PhoneGap 2.0 include: Cordova WebView Command Line Tooling Enhanced documentation Web Inspector Remote (Weinre) ported to nodejs Cordovajs (Support for unified Javascript across platforms) Transition to Apache Cordova and nearing […]

MegaList jQuery Plugin

I’ve been working on lots of different projects lately.  On several of them, I’ve had the need for a reusable list component.  In some cases, it needed to handle a large data set, in others it just needed to be self-contained and easy to use.   Out of these projects came MegaList: a reusable list […]

Lil’ Doodle Source Code Now Available

Back in January I released Lil’ Doodle, a children’s drawing application for the iPad built with PhoneGap.   Lil’ Doodle is meant for a simple sketch-and-erase experience similar to a children’s magnetic drawing toy, powered entirely by JavaScript and the HTML5 Canvas element.  You can see a video of it in action below: I’ve decided […]

Introducing the Fresh Food Finder, an open source PhoneGap application

The Fresh Food Finder is an open source mobile application built using PhoneGap (Apache Cordova) that helps users locate local farmers markets that are registered with the FDA.  You can search for specific markets, or find the closest markets to your current location.   Check out the video below to see it in action: It […]

Getting rid of the “Gray Box” in PhoneGap for Windows Phone

If you’ve ever used a Windows Phone device’s web browser, then you have probably noticed the gray highlight that the Windows Phone browser puts on top of the HTML content any time that you click on a link. For static web pages, this isn’t a big deal. It indicates that you have clicked on an […]