Adobe Edge Inspect CC is an awesome tool for synchronized browsing experiences across both desktop and mobile devices. It is incredibly powerful, and streamlines the developer & testing workflows by reducing iterations when testing HTML/JS experiences on multiple devices. Adobe Edge Code CC is an awesome code editor for creating HTML/JS experiences. It has a […]
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PhoneGap Exploration – Realtime Hardware Communication
Recently I’ve undertaken some explorations with fellow evangelist Kevin Hoyt, trying to determine how far we can push PhoneGap applications with devices and physical computing. Turns out, you can push things really far and now I’m delighted to share one of the experiments that we’ve been pursuing. I’ve been asked on more than one occasion, can you […]
Live Editing Server Files with Edge Code/Brackets
If you haven’t already heard of Adobe Edge Code or Brackets, it is a new HTML/CSS/JS code editor that enables a rapid development cycle by connecting directly to your browser for automatic real-time updates to the HTML content running inside the browser. This promotes rapid development, and allows you to focus on writing your code […]
PhoneGap Legends – A Sample Game App
Next week I’ll be representing Adobe at GDC 2013, and demonstrating how Adobe Creative Cloud, PhoneGap, and PhoneGap Build can be great tools for building casual gaming experiences. In preparation, I’ve been working on a gaming sample application that shows off the potential of HTML games packaged with PhoneGap. …and now I’d like to introduce you to PhoneGap […]
On-Device Debugging With PhoneGap & iOS 6
Want to debug your PhoneGap apps, complete with breakpoints, DOM & CSS inspection, profiling, and more? This is all possible with the PhoneGap Emulator, which allows you to leverage Chrome’s Developer Tools inside of the desktop Chrome browser (covered in detail here). However, did you also know that you can have a rich debugging/development experience in an […]
Performance & UX Considerations For Successful PhoneGap Apps
I think some of the most common questions people ask when developing PhoneGap apps are about performance. How do I make my app faster? How do I make it feel native? Any tips of making an app feel at-home on a particular platform? How do you match native OS “look and feel”? In this post, […]
Video: Intro To PhoneGap from MobileDev@TU
Thanks to everyone who came out the the MobileDev@TU meetup last night at Towson University. I’ve posted the video online for those that want to review it, or weren’t able to attend. You can check it out below. Unfortuantely I lost the last 15 minutes of video because I wasn’t patient enough to let […]
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 […]
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 […]