New Version of My Halloween PhoneGap App

With Halloween less than a month away, I figured it’s about time to update my “Instant Halloween” PhoneGap sound effects app. I’m happy to say that the latest version is now out for both iOS and Android. It has a few new sounds, a new UI style, and has been updated for iOS 7. I […]

PhoneGap Day: PhoneGap & Hardware

I’d like to express a huge Thank You to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day in Portland last week, and to Colene and the team that put everything together! The day was loaded with fantastic presentations, and great community interaction… tons of information, tons of great questions, and tons of great people (oh, and beer – it […]

Fresh Food Finder Featured in SELF Magazine

I am very excited to share that the Fresh Food Finder PhoneGap application which I built last summer was recently featured in the June 2013 issue of SELF Magazine. This app was built as a demonstration/sample application for PhoneGap, but has gained popularity for being an easy way to find farmers markets by leveraging the […]

PhoneGap Exploration – Realtime Hardware Communication

Recently I’ve undertaken some explorations with fellow evangelist Kevin Hoyt, trying to determine how far we can push PhoneGap applications with devices and physical computing. Turns out, you can push things really far and now I’m delighted to share one of the experiments that we’ve been pursuing. I’ve been asked on more than one occasion, can you […]

PhoneGap & Android Studio

Yesterday at GoogleIO, Google announced Android Studio, a new development environment for authoring Android applications. This is a great looking new IDE for Android, based off of IntelliJ IDEA, with some new Android-specific tools and features. You can read more about Android Studio on the Google Android Developers blog. One of my first tasks upon […]

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 […]

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. […]