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Adding Internationalization/Localization Support to Web Applications (February 15, 2012 11:30 AM)
I thought I'd spend some time this week looking at how to add localization support to web applications, specifically client-side heavy web applications. The original intent for this article was to look at the subject matter in terms of PhoneGap applications, but there's no reason why this can't be applied to desktop sites as well.
The purpose of this blog entry is to introduce and discuss some of the basic concepts, as well as provide a few examples of the concepts in practice. It is not my intent to ...
Make your Android PhoneGap app less scary (February 13, 2012 8:53 AM)
For folks who are used to doing native Android development, this is old news, but for folks who may be new to it and coming from a PhoneGap perspective, I wanted to share a quick tip with you to help make your apps a bit less "scary" for your users. What am I talking about? Whenever you install an Android application, the device checks the app's descriptor file to see what permissions the app needs to run. By default, a PhoneGap Android app will simply have them all enabled. This means your users may see...
A database utility class for PhoneGap (January 26, 2012 8:36 AM)
I've done a few projects now that make use of PhoneGap's database support. Like most things in PhoneGap, it just plain works. But I've encountered a few things I thought could be done a bit easier, so I've built a simple utility class for my future projects. I thought I'd share it with folks and see if it would be useful for others.
New Adobe Inspire Magazine out (with an article by yours truly...) (January 25, 2012 8:22 AM)
The title says it all. The latest issue of Adobe's Inspire Magazine is out. There's lots of good content with the only low point being my own article (grin) on PhoneGap: Combining your web skills with PhoneGap to build mobile apps. Probably nothing new for folks who read my blog entries here.
PhoneGap RSS Reader - Part 3 (January 24, 2012 5:10 PM)
Welcome to my third entry for my (what was at first) simple PhoneGap RSS reader. If you haven't yet, please be sure to read part 1 and part 2 so you have some context about how this application works. In this part, I'm going to tackle two enhancements suggested to me by my readers:
Downloading files to a PhoneGap application - Part 2 (January 20, 2012 2:08 PM)
Yesterday I blogged my experiment with downloading files to a PhoneGap application. Today I decided to take my code and try it out on iOS. Along the way I discovered a little bug, and encountered the White List issue with iOS PhoneGap apps. As with the previous entry, please note that this could possibly be done better.
Downloading files to a PhoneGap application - Part 1 (January 19, 2012 8:47 AM)
For the past week or so I've been looking at file system access and downloads with PhoneGap. Before going any further, I want to warn folks that I'm still a bit fuzzy on the details here. It was a bit of a struggle to get this working right, and I plan to follow this entry up with a look at iOS and also how to get all platforms working right, but for now, consider this a first draft. I also want to give thanks to Simon Mac Donald for his help. Anything right here is thanks to him and anything wrong is my...
What do you need to get for mobile development? (January 16, 2012 8:37 AM)
Nerudo asked me:
I am looking to start out in Mobile App dev. I was wondering what is your setup or what set-up would you advise I get. By setup I mean "test devices, and develeopment tools."
Here is my list - and I'd love to know what my readers would add/change/modify.
Demo of Color Palettes and PhoneGap (January 13, 2012 12:52 PM)
Earlier today I discovered the excellent Color Thief JavaScript library by Lokesh Dhakr. Color Thief gives you the ability to find the dominant color of a picture, or a palette of major colors. Check the site for examples. I thought it would be interesting to wrap this into a PhoneGap project and create palettes based on your camera. Here's what I came up with.
Working with the battery in a PhoneGap application (January 13, 2012 8:23 AM)
One of the interesting things added in PhoneGap 1.3.0 (and something I missed until fairly recently), was support for battery events. Using these events is pretty simple so I thought I'd whip up a quick demo.
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