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 […]

Video: Adobe Edge Inspect

Here’s a quick video introduction I put together for Adobe Edge Inspect, a *free* tool that enables synchronized browsing and debugging of HTML content between desktop and mobile devices. It’s definitely worth checking out, if you aren’t using it already. Adobe Edge Inspect enables synchronized browsing across desktop and mobile devices. By pairing your devices […]

Adobe Ideas & Creative Cloud Workflow

In this post I’m changing things up a bit… Rather than focusing just on developer-centric topics, I’ve decided to show a little more creative workflow using Adobe Ideas.  Adobe Ideas is an awesome sketching app for the iPad. You can sketch whatever you want, whenever you want. It is all saved as vector content that […]

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 […]