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 […]

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 […]

Featured PhoneGap Apps!

It’s always exciting to see what people in the PhoneGap community area up to.  Seeing featured apps in both iTunes and Google Play that are built with PhoneGap is fantastic.  Keep up the great work everyone! BitTimer is being featured for iOS Health apps: HealthTap is being featured in Google Play Both are made with PhoneGap. […]

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 […]

Video: Native vs. Hybrid vs. Web

Here’s a video from the “What Developers Love and Hate about iOS, Android, Windows and HTML5” panel discussion that I took part in during MoDev East back in December.  The panelists represented native app developers, HTML/web developers, and myself-representing the HTML/hybrid app paradigm. I thought it was a great discussion, and nearly everyone acknowledged the benefits […]

Transcript from Open Session On PhoneGap

Today Raymond Camden and I hosted another open session on PhoneGap as part of an Adobe TechLive event.  These sessions are an opportunity for anyone to stop in and ask us questions. The Q&A transcript from today’s session is below.  Thanks to everyone for sticking around, and bearing through our technical difficulties – The normal Q&A […]

Debugging On-Device PhoneGap Applications with “Charles” Network Proxy

Have you ever been testing or developing an application, and things just don’t seem to be working as you’ve expected? Just imagine that the data that you are receiving from the server isn’t exactly what you’d expect… even worse, what if this is happening in an application that you’ve already released to the app store, […]

Halloween Fun with PhoneGap

About two weeks ago I had a random thought… “Wouldn’t it be fun to build a free Halloween sound effects app using PhoneGap?” (I tend to get excited for any holiday). I had already done a lot of work using sounds in PhoneGap apps with my LowLatencyAudio native plugin, so the groundwork had already been […]