Archive for: PhoneGap

May 2nd, 2012

Central Florida Events: Building real apps with HTML/JavaScript and PhoneGap

If you live anywhere near Tampa or Orlando and have an interest in building mobile apps using web standards, you need to come to one of the following two local events: Tampa —  5/9/2012 6:00PM please RSVP on the site – if it’s full, try again later in the day Orlando —  5/8/2012 6:00PM EDT [...]

Apr 30th, 2012

JavaScript Developer Magazine – Appliness May Issue now Available

The May 2012 issue of Appliness is now available for your iPad and Android tablet.  This issue has over 100 pages of content including tons of code samples and interactive demos.  If you are a JavaScript developer, this is something you should subscribe to.  It’s free. May 2012 table of contents: CSS Regions and CSS [...]

Nov 3rd, 2011

PhoneGap Day Videos now available

A great way to learn a lot about PhoneGap — http://phonegap.com/2011/11/03/relive-phonegap-day-with-videos/

Oct 21st, 2011

JavaScript, CSS, HTML Frameworks and Tools – my list

One of the challenges in the world of HTML/JavaScript/CSS app development is cobbling together your kitchen sink of frameworks, tools and other technologies. When you start looking around, it feels like there is an endless list of options, which is good and bad!  Recently, I’ve been gathering a list of what’s popular these days and [...]

Oct 12th, 2011

Stupid PhoneGap Tricks – loading external content

Most PhoneGap apps are built so that the HTML/JS/CSS content is bundled into the app (see my previous blog post).  I wondered if it was possible to load external content into the PhoneGap container, and after a few minutes of looking at the APIs, I discovered that it is doable, at least on Android (I’ll [...]

Oct 6th, 2011

How PhoneGap impacts how we evangelize Flex

DISCLAIMER:  The following is my personal opinion and not necessarily that of my employer (Adobe Systems, Inc.). The PhoneGap announcement at MAX 2011 really got a lot of people excited (including me!), and it raised a few questions about how it changes our jobs as evangelists.  PhoneGap gives us the means to build cross-platform apps with [...]

Oct 6th, 2011

What is PhoneGap?

Earlier this week at Adobe MAX, it was announced that Adobe had started the process (signed a definitive agreement) of acquiring Nitobi, the makers of PhoneGap. After this announcement, I had multiple conversations with conference attendees and found that several of them really had no idea what PhoneGap is. Some thought it was a JavaScript [...]