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Brian Rinaldi at the Adobe Developer Connection (ADC) has recently put together a free monthly newsletter to help keep you up to date on all the latest and greatest content available on the ADC. The topics span a variety of subjects including HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Mobile Development, PhoneGap, Responsive Design and more. The January newsletter can be found here. To start receiving this newsletter, simply...

Push Notifications Plugin Support added to PhoneGap Build

I’m happy to post today there is now support for a generic push notifications plugin for PhoneGap Build. The new plugin is called PushPlugin and works for both iOS and Android push notifications. The iOS support is based on the Apple Push Notifications Service (APNS) and the Android support is based on Google Cloud Messaging (GCM). This has been a highly awaited need and I’m so glad I can...

Introducing Adobe TechLive!

Our team has been busy working on a new initiative called Adobe TechLive, a place where we’ll be hosting interactive online webinars on various topics. Some upcoming topics include Adobe’s Create the Web tour introducing Adobe’s latest new tools and web technologies, a PhoneGap Open Session where you can come to get your questions answered about PhoneGap, PhoneGap Build and mobile...

Geo-based Push Notifications with PhoneGap and Pushwoosh

Recently I blogged about sending push notifications via the Pushwoosh service and specifically with PhoneGap applications. While working with the service I noticed it had something built in for setting up geozones for your push notifications (aka: geofencing). If you’re not familiar with this term, it’s basically the ability to send push notifications to a device when it’s in a certain...

Easy PhoneGap Push Notifications with Pushwoosh

I recently posted regarding the use of Push Notifications on both iOS and Android with PhoneGap. Both of those addressed sending push notifications from a general 3rd party server where you write the server side push code. However, there are many services out there you can leverage for sending push notifications as well and this post will address Pushwoosh in particular. What’s nice about Pushwoosh...

Tutorial: Embed PhoneGap as a Subview in your Native iOS Application

Something cool that many mobile developers (and particularly native developers) might not be aware of at this point, is the option to use PhoneGap (aka Cordova) as a component within your mobile application, as a web “subview” of a whole native application where you want to render HTML/JS content and/or interact with the PhoneGap APIs. In this webview component (sometimes also referred to as...

Tutorial: Android Push Notifications with PhoneGap

My last post covered push notifications with PhoneGap on Apple devices, but I also wanted to cover push notifications with PhoneGap on Android for those developing cross platform applications. I found that I was able to get my notifications working much faster on Android comparatively. Google Cloud Messaging Android push notifications are available via the Google Cloud Messaging – GCM service...

Tutorial: Apple Push Notifications with PhoneGap – Part 1

This is part 1 of a new series to help explain how to set up and use Apple Push Notifications (APNs) in your mobile applications. Push notifications are different than local notifications in that they are coming from a 3rd party server to inform the user of something, versus a local notification which is scheduled by the application to run on the device itself without any server interaction. For instance...

Cross-Platform PhoneGap (aka Cordova) Project Templates in a Jiffy!

Often times half the battle to getting started with cross platform development is getting set up. I’ve blogged about this often times before, but now there’s a helpful new tool available from our Adobe engineers to help you set up a cross-platform project template quickly! The tool is called cordova-client, and it allows you to edit one code base and maintain and manage your overall...

Styling your App with Twitter Bootstrap

Twitter Bootstrap is an open source toolkit to help you create visually pleasing interfaces for your web and mobile apps quickly. According to this article it’s the most watched and forked repository in GitHub. A couple of developers that work for Twitter wrote the framework (hence the name), you can follow them on twitter at (@mdo and @fat) actually wrote the framework. There’s a great article...