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New Tutorial: Developing and Architecting a PhoneGap Application
A couple of weeks ago, I delivered a full day PhoneGap workshop at QCon San Francisco. The workshop went very well, and I thought the materials could be useful to a larger audience. So I turned the...
View ArticlePhoneGap and PhoneGap Build in 5 Minutes
During the last couple of months, I have been on the road presenting our new HTML tools as part of the Create the Web tour with many other members of the team. The tour was a lot of fun with a lot of...
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Hardware-Accelerated Page Transitions for Mobile Web Apps / PhoneGap Apps
I have been delivering a few PhoneGap Architecture and Performance talks in recent weeks. One of the performance techniques I talk about is –no surprise– the use of Hardware (GPU) Accelerated...
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Sociogram Mobile: A Starter-Kit Application for PhoneGap and Facebook...
A few weeks ago I shared Sociogram, a sample application that demonstrates how to use the Facebook JavaScript SDK and the Graph API. A number of people have asked me for a Mobile version of the...
View ArticleBuilding Pluggable and Mock Data Adapters for Web and PhoneGap Applications
This is not rocket science, but when planning your web or mobile architecture, it is important to make sure your client application is not tightly coupled to a specific data access strategy. The...
View ArticleTop 10 Performance Techniques for PhoneGap Applications
Here is the video of my PhoneGap performance session at Adobe MAX 2013:
View ArticleArchitecting a PhoneGap Application: Video + Slides
Here is the video of my PhoneGap Architecture talk at Adobe MAX 2013: The slides are available here.
View ArticleSample Mobile / PhoneGap Application with Backbone.js and Ratchet
I continue my experiments with different frameworks and UI toolkits to build mobile and PhoneGap applications. In this post, I use Backbone.js as the architectural framework and Ratchet as the UI...
View ArticleSample Mobile / PhoneGap Application with Backbone.js and Topcoat
In this post, I’m excited to share my first sample application built with Topcoat. Topcoat is a CSS library — a set of customizable styles for mobile components — that you can use to build polished,...
View ArticlePhoneGap Plugin for the Dropbox Sync API
A couple of weeks ago, I started working on a PhoneGap application that required file synchronization between the users computer and their mobile device. I looked at the new Dropbox Sync API and...
View ArticleBuilding Modular Mobile/PhoneGap Apps with Backbone.js, RequireJS & Topcoat —...
In my previous post, I discussed the process of building modular applications with Backbone.js and RequireJS, and I shared a new version of my Employee Directory sample application built with...
View ArticlePull-to-Refresh in PhoneGap and Topcoat Applications
Pull-to-refresh has become a standard UI pattern to refresh lists in mobile applications, and there is no reason not to use it in PhoneGap / Cordova applications. A first option is to use iScroll,...
View ArticleHow to upload pictures from a PhoneGap Application to Node.js (and other...
You have seen the demos showing you how to access your camera and take pictures from a PhoneGap application. But these demos often end there, and a number of people have asked me for an end-to-end...
View ArticleHow to Upload Pictures from a PhoneGap App to Amazon S3
In my previous post, I shared a sample application demonstrating how to upload pictures from a PhoneGap application to a Node.js server. If your application deals with lots of images, it may be a good...
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PhoneGap and Cordova with iOS 7
Now that it’s officially available, I wanted to share my experience running and building PhoneGap / Cordova applications on iOS 7. Running Existing Apps The first thing I tried to do after the upgrade...
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Keypoint: PhoneGap-Based HTML Slide Decks
I’ve been using HTML slides instead of Keynote or Powerpoint for a while now. Since I’m doing a lot of PhoneGap/Cordova presentations, it also occurred to me some time ago that I could go one step...
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Top 10 Performance Techniques for PhoneGap and Hybrid Apps — Slides Available
Here are slides for the “Top 10 Performance Techniques for PhoneGap and Hybrid Apps” session I presented last week at HTML 5 Dev Conf. This presentation was built as a PhoneGap application with the...
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Sample Mobile Application with AngularJS
In recent months, I have been sharing different versions of the Employee Directory sample application built with different technology stacks, different frameworks, and different back-end (REST...
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New Cordova/PhoneGap 3.x Tutorial
Last November, I delivered a full day Cordova/PhoneGap workshop with Brian Leroux at the great Full Frontal JavaScript Conference in Brighton, UK. I put some new materials (specific to Cordova 3.x)...
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Proxxi, A Proximity-Based Social App
For the last few months, Greg Wilson and I worked nights and weekends on a little side project that we called Proxxi. The idea of Proxxi came from personal experiences, being in situations where we...
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