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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 [...]
Filed in: Android • Cordova • Mobile Development • PhoneGap
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 [...]
Filed in: Cordova • Mobile Development • PhoneGap
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 [...]
Filed in: Cordova • HTML/JS • Mobile Development • PhoneGap
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 [...]
Filed in: HTML/JS • Mobile Development • Uncategorized
Apache Flex 4.8.0 Released!
In case you haven’t heard the news yet, the Apache Flex team just delivered their first release, Apache Flex 4.8.0! Though it’s just a parity release (no new features yet), this is a major milestone for the team and validates the strength of the community and the dedicated Adobe folks coming together and proving they [...]
Filed in: Adobe Flex • Apache Flex • Flash Builder • Flex Mobile • Flex/AIR • Mobile Development
Fast PhoneGap Development for Android with AppLaud
At PhoneGap Day last week I saw a demo showing the AppLaud Eclipse plugin by Mobile Developer Solutions (MDS), a plugin for creating PhoneGap templates to make your PhoneGap/Cordova for Android development fast and easy. I found it particularly interesting as I had discovered this pain point myself and been trying to address it with [...]
Filed in: Cordova • Mobile Development • PhoneGap
PhoneGap/Cordova Template/Tutorial for Sharing Code Between Platforms
Sometimes the hardest part of trying a new technology is the initial configuration process. This post is intended to help developers in getting started with PhoneGap more quickly cross-platform. I’m working on some pre-configured project templates and the first one is included with this post. Basic PhoneGap Project Template This first template contains preset project [...]
Filed in: Cordova • iOS • Java • Mobile Development • PhoneGap
Introducing Kendo UI Mobile – Adaptive Rendering Framework
I recently discovered a neat framework I wanted to blog about to inform people of another great option for developing in mobile. This framework might especially appeal to Flex/AIR developers as well, so take a moment to read on. It’s called Kendo UI Mobile, but this same company also has libraries for web and data [...]
Filed in: Mobile Development • PhoneGap
Introducing BackStack.js – View Navigation JavaScript Framework
Recently my fellow teammate Piotr created a JavaScript framework called BackStack.js that extends Backbone.js and provides view management and transitions for your HTML/JS mobile or web app. You can push/pop views with a slide or fade transition (effect) that can be controlled with options for duration and direction, and also set a default transition to [...]
Adobe Shadow – Inspect/Debug your Mobile Web Content
Adobe Shadow is a great new tool from Adobe that allows developers to design and develop their mobile web content quickly by providing a way to inspect and debug from their desktops wirelessly and synchronously across multiple devices. It essentially allows a developer to browse web content on their desktops and see that same content [...]
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