Video: Introduction to PhoneGap

Yesterday I gave an Introduction To Mobile Development With PhoneGap presentation at the DevNexus developer conference in Atlanta. Thanks to everyone who attended, DevNexus is a great event. Unfortunately, not everyone around the world was able to attend… maybe next year.  Luckily for you, I recorded the presentation! You can check it out in it’s […]

Transcript from Open Session On PhoneGap

Ray and I have just concluded another Adobe TechLive Open Session on PhoneGap.  These sessions are an opportunity for anyone to stop in and ask us questions.  Thanks to everyone who attended and submitted their questions.  We will be hosting more of these sessions in the future. You can also download a transcript of this […]

Video: Native vs. Hybrid vs. Web

Here’s a video from the “What Developers Love and Hate about iOS, Android, Windows and HTML5” panel discussion that I took part in during MoDev East back in December.  The panelists represented native app developers, HTML/web developers, and myself-representing the HTML/hybrid app paradigm. I thought it was a great discussion, and nearly everyone acknowledged the benefits […]

My Workflow for Developing PhoneGap Applications

I am asked all the time “How do I get started developing PhoneGap applications?”. My normal answer is to advise people to check out the PhoneGap Getting Started Guides, which provide a great starting point for every platform. However after further thought, I’m not sure this is always what people are asking. Rather than “how […]

Connected Second-Screen App Experiences with PhoneGap & Audio Watermarks

In January 2012, I started the year with a post on multi-screen applications developed with PhoneGap. In that post, I describe an approach for creating mobile applications that extend the app experience onto a second screen – where the mobile device drives the content on that second screen… essentially having an “external monitor” capability on […]

Debugging On-Device PhoneGap Applications with “Charles” Network Proxy

Have you ever been testing or developing an application, and things just don’t seem to be working as you’ve expected? Just imagine that the data that you are receiving from the server isn’t exactly what you’d expect… even worse, what if this is happening in an application that you’ve already released to the app store, […]

Halloween Fun with PhoneGap

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 […]

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 […]