Folding HTML Views in App-UI

A few months back I released App-UI, a UI container toolkit for creating HTML experiences.   It gives you common “view navigator” paradigms for mobile experiences… a view navigator stack that can push and pop views, a split view navigator, and a “sliding view” like Facebook’s iOS experience.  All of which are created entirely with […]

Upcoming Changes with PhoneGap 2.1 & iOS 6

Are you using PhoneGap/Apache Cordova for iOS development?  If so, you’ll definitely want to pay attention to the upcoming PhoneGap 2.1 release. If you haven’t seen it already, be sure to check out Shazron’s post: 11 upcoming changes for Cordova iOS 2.1.  Changes include Automatic Rererecnce Counting (ARC) support, an updated Native-JavaScript bridge, diagnostics, and […]

Transcript From Open Session on PhoneGap/Cordova

Many thanks to everyone who attended today’s open session on PhoneGap hosted by myself, Raymond Camden, and Piotr Walczyszyn. Thank you for the great questions and feedback! You can access a full transcript from the open session below.  Please ignore typos, it was a live Q&A session. Answered Questions (78) ————————– 1. Steven Benjamin: How […]

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 […]