Porting A PhoneGap App To Firefox OS

About a year ago I released the Fresh Food Finder, a multi-platform mobile application built with PhoneGap. The Fresh Food Finder provides an easy way to search for farmer’s markets near your current location, based on the farmer’s markets listings from the USDA. This app has seen a lot of popularity lately, so I’m working […]

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 […]

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 […]

My Workflow for Developing PhoneGap Applications

I am asked all the time “How do I get started developing PhoneGap applications?”. My normal answer is to advise people to check out the PhoneGap Getting Started Guides, which provide a great starting point for every platform. However after further thought, I’m not sure this is always what people are asking. Rather than “how […]

A Response to “Shell Apps and Silver Bullets”

There is an article floating around the web today, warning against “Shell Apps” and tools like PhoneGap.  The logic in this article has a few arguments that are misleading, and I’d like to introduce some counter arguments as they relate to PhoneGap and HTML experiences for comparison. The “Silver Bullet” First, the “Silver Bullet” argument… I have […]

Debugging App-UI with Adobe Shadow

Adobe Shadow has been out for over a month now, and I’ve finally had a chance to start integrating it into my development workflow.  Shadow is a new tool that provides you with a synchronized desktop & mobile browsing experience, and it even lets you inspect & modify the HTML DOM on the remote devices. […]

Welcome, Adobe Shadow!

Ready for the new era in multi-screen development? Available now on labs.adobe.com, Adobe Shadow is a new, free tool that enables synchronized browsing and remote inspection across desktop and mobile experiences, in real time. Rather than having me try to describe it, check out this video from Adobe TV… From Adobe Labs: Adobe® Shadow is […]

Preview: New HTML5/PhoneGap Project

Here’s a quick preview of my new HTML5/PhoneGap data vizualization app. Once released, this will be available on multiple platforms, in multiple app stores, AND it will be completely open source.  Just waiting on app store approvals… You can expect a full writeup on how this was built after it is released. Enjoy! UPDATE: This […]

Adobe Flex & AIR: One Developer Platform, Many Devices

In this series, I’d like to highlight Adobe’s mobile offerings, and the variety of platforms that can be supported from a single codebase.     I wrote a simple URL Monitoring utility application that will check the status of various HTTP endpoints using the AIR URLMonitor class.   I now have that application running on […]