A couple of weeks ago, I started working on a PhoneGap application that required file synchronization between the users computer and their mobile device. I looked at the new Dropbox Sync API and decided to give it a try. The Dropbox Sync API is available for iOS and Android. So, I created a PhoneGap plugin [...]
In this post, I’m excited to share my first sample application built with Topcoat. Topcoat is a CSS library — a set of customizable styles for mobile components — that you can use to build polished, clean and fast mobile web apps. Topcoat has a desktop profile as well. Because Topcoat focuses exclusively on the [...]
I continue my experiments with different frameworks and UI toolkits to build mobile and PhoneGap applications. In this post, I use Backbone.js as the architectural framework and Ratchet as the UI toolkit to build my Employee Directory reference application. You can experience the application below: Click here to run the app in a full browser [...]
Here is the video of my PhoneGap Architecture talk at Adobe MAX 2013: The slides are available here.
Here is the video of my PhoneGap performance session at Adobe MAX 2013:
This is not rocket science, but when planning your web or mobile architecture, it is important to make sure your client application is not tightly coupled to a specific data access strategy. The Problem In tightly coupled applications, the presentation logic is intertwined with data access logic (for example, $.ajax() calls), and it leads to [...]
A few weeks ago I shared Sociogram, a sample application that demonstrates how to use the Facebook JavaScript SDK and the Graph API. A number of people have asked me for a Mobile version of the application. So here is Sociogram Mobile: a sample application that demonstrates how to integrate Facebook social features in a [...]
I have been delivering a few PhoneGap Architecture and Performance talks in recent weeks. One of the performance techniques I talk about is –no surprise– the use of Hardware (GPU) Accelerated animations when available on the device. A typical example in a mobile application, is to hardware accelerate your page transitions. Even though this capability [...]
During the last couple of months, I have been on the road presenting our new HTML tools as part of the Create the Web tour with many other members of the team. The tour was a lot of fun with a lot of great feedback from designers and developers. The main challenge of the event [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I delivered a full day PhoneGap workshop at QCon San Francisco. The workshop went very well, and I thought the materials could be useful to a larger audience. So I turned the workshop instructions into more detailed tutorial instructions. This is a lot more than the usual Getting Started tutorial: [...]