The Salesforce Mobile SDK allows developers to easily build Native (iOS and Android) and Hybrid (Cordova-based) applications on top of the Salesforce platform. Version 2.3 was released last week, and you can find the list of new and improved features in the official announcement blog post. My own favorite new feature is Cordova 3.5 support […]
Employee Directory Sample App with Ionic and Node.js
It has been six months since I posted the first version of the Employee Directory app built with Ionic and AngularJS. Ionic has been moving fast, and it was time for an update. Employee directory is a sample application that allows you to look up employees by name, view the details of an employee, call, […]
Revamped Apache Cordova Tutorial
July 2, 2014 in Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, I delivered a Cordova/PhoneGap Workshop at jQuery UK in Oxford. Great conference in a great location! I took the opportunity to revamp the workshop I had been delivering at PhoneGap Day in Portland and Amsterdam, and at LXJS in Lisbon. I thought it could be useful to a larger audience, so […]
QCon New York Slides: Creating Native-Like Mobile Apps with Cordova, AngularJS and Ionic
I had a great time presenting “Creating Native-Like Mobile Apps with Cordova, AngularJS and Ionic” at QCon New York two weeks ago. Thanks to all who attended my session. The HTML slides are available here. I was running these slides in Cordova, so some interactions (taking a picture of the audience, comparing click vs touch, […]
New Salesforce Tutorial for Developers
June 25, 2014 in Salesforce, Tutorial
Based on my own experience learning the Salesforce platform a few months ago, I put together a tutorial for developers new to Salesforce development. The objective was to boil down a sometimes intimidating number of features to some of the core concepts you need to know to get started quickly and efficiently. The list of […]
Running Your Slide Presentations in the Salesforce1 App
May 8, 2014 in Salesforce, Salesforce1
For the last few years, I’ve mostly been using HTML slides instead of Keynote or Powerpoint. I’ve also been doing a lot of Salesforce1 presentations lately, and it occurred to me that I could take my HTML slides to the next level by running them from within the Salesforce1 app. That way I can demonstrate […]
Sociogram: A Sample Application demonstrating AngularJS/Ionic and Facebook Integration
April 9, 2014 in Angular.js, Cordova, Facebook, Ionic, PhoneGap
About a year ago, I blogged Sociogram, a starter project demonstrating how to integrate with Facebook in your mobile and web applications. A year later, it’s time for a makeover: Here is a brand new version of Sociogram, built with AngularJS, Ionic, and the OpenFB micro-library I shared earlier this week. Sociogram is a sample […]
Cordova/PhoneGap Facebook Integration without Plugin
Many consumer apps provide a Facebook Login option, as well as other Facebook integration features such as posting to your feed, getting your list of friends, etc. Cordova has a Facebook Plugin that makes that integration easy. Internally, the plugin uses both the Native and the JavaScript implementations of the Facebook SDK, and historically, it […]
Interactive Mobile Dashboards in the Salesforce1 App
March 10, 2014 in Charts, Cordova, D3, Salesforce, Salesforce1
This is my third and last article in a series dedicated to building dynamic mobile dashboards with D3, ChartJS, and other data visualization libraries on top of the Salesforce platform. The source code is always the same, but each post focuses on a different deployment option: In the first article, I showed how to deploy […]
Building Mobile Apps for Salesforce.com with Ratchet 2.0
March 5, 2014 in Force.com, Ratchet, Salesforce
In my previous post, I shared a sample mobile application built with the freshly released Ratchet 2.0. Ratchet is a UI toolkit (mostly CSS) that provides skins and UI components for mobile applications built with web standards. In this post, I’ll share a similar application for the Salesforce.com platform. This sample application provides you with […]
