By Andrew Trice Device motion and accelerometer programming interfaces have been around for years now, but up until iOS 7 we saw minimal use of them on most mobile devices. Sure there was a “level” app, or some gimmicky games, but not much to be seen for widespread use. iOS 6 started to introduce user […]
Mobile-Friendly Mapping for PhoneGap Apps
By Rob Lauer One of the first and most enduring features of mobile devices was, and continues to be, mapping. The ability to locate yourself on a map with the tap of a finger, anywhere in the world, has arguably influenced adoption of smartphones and tablets as much as any other feature. As map consumers, […]
Create Your First Mobile App with PhoneGap Build – Using the Notification API
By Brian Rinaldi This is the 7th and final part in the series. You can find part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, part 4 here, part 5 here and part 6 here. The files for the sample app are available here. In this final step, we will add a finishing touch to our application and use another PhoneGap API […]
Create Your First Mobile App with PhoneGap Build - Using the Storage API
By Brian Rinaldi This is part 6 in an ongoing series. You can find part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, part 4 here and part 5 here. The files for the sample app are available here. Even though our app is now looking and feeling more like an app, the truth is that everything up to this […]
Create Your First Mobile App with PhoneGap Build - Adding Pages with jQuery Mobile
By Brian Rinaldi This is part 5 in an ongoing series. You can find part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here and part 4 here. The files for the sample app are available here. We’ve made our app look and feel more like an app, but our list items, when clicked, simply open up the project web […]
Developing for Windows Phone 8 in Apache Cordova
by Jesse MacFadyen There’s a new device in town. It is getting some attention as the design maverick, and it’s owners are a passionate bunch. Microsoft has stepped up their commitment to the Windows Phone platform with Windows Phone 8. Having received numerous accolades for defining their own path, instead of following the crowd, Windows […]
Create Your First Mobile App with PhoneGap Build - Adding jQuery Mobile
by Brian Rinaldi This is part 4 in an ongoing series. You can find part 1 here, part 2 here and part 3 here. The files for the sample app are available here. At this point, our application works but looks like a simple web page and not like an app. In this next step, we […]
Create Your First Mobile App with PhoneGap Build - Connecting to an API
by Brian Rinaldi This is part 3 in an ongoing series. You can find part 1 here and part 2 here. The sample files are available here. At this point, we’ve simply taken some pre-existing code and uploaded it to PhoneGap Build to create various device-specific builds for us. The application, simply responds to PhoneGap’s […]
Create Your First Mobile App with PhoneGap Build - Using PhoneGap Build
by Brian Rinaldi This is part 2 in a multi-part series. Click here to read Part 1. The sample files are available here. The goal of this step is simply to get acquainted with the PhoneGap Build service. In this step, we will get the PhoneGap starter app running on your test device. You can […]
Create Your First Mobile App with PhoneGap Build - Setup
by Brian Rinaldi PhoneGap makes it easy to take your front-end development skills in HTML, CSS and JavaScript and translate that into developing cross-platform mobile applications. However, PhoneGap Build makes this even more accessible by simplifying the process creating builds for multiple platforms and installing those builds on your test devices. PhoneGap Build is a […]