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After spending a day with Java reflection, I believe that we are now at the point where PhoneGap Android can now be supported on 1.5, 1.6 and 2.0 versions of Android. This wasn’t incredibly hard, except for the fact that I was unfamiliar with reflection, and the example on the Android site is less [...]

Fil who has been working on the Mobile Spec came over and we tested the mobile spec on the current (EDGE) version of iPhone PhoneGap, and the tests look pretty sweet (see video). It was pretty easy, I created a new Phonegap-based Application from the Xcode template, plopped in the contents of the Mobile Spec, [...]

There has been a major re-factoring of the iPhone PhoneGap codebase, to better enable users to get a current version of PhoneGap to use in their projects without mucking about in the core PhoneGap code. You can view the code here: http://github.com/phonegap/phonegap/iphone The README has more details, and I will elaborate on it more here, [...]

a) Apple has given PhoneGap a technical analysis , and PhoneGap does not violate the Terms & Conditions of the App Store.
b) Apple will review PhoneGap applications based on their own merits and not on their use of PhoneGap.

During the initial stages of working on PhoneGap for Symbian using Web Runtime, some limitations were brought to light due to the fact that Nokia’s WRT is closed source: we are limited to the device functionality and platform support which Nokia has exposed. Nonetheless its a great technology and porting PhoneGap to WRT was a [...]

With so much buzz around the office about PhoneGap, I figured I would chime in too, call it a spite driven blog post.
Last week I decided to add some sugar to XUI our answer to a light weight JavaScript framework. Since XUI really doesn’t need any new functionality it is really about progressively enhancing the [...]

The big thing around the office for the past year or so now has been PhoneGap. It’s gaining in popularity every day, and recently we’ve had applications starting to trickle into application stores other than the iPhone one! We now have one application out in the Nokia Ovi store, and one on the BlackBerry App [...]

PhoneGap aims to provide a consistent interface to device functionality across multiple platforms to enable rapid application development via well known technologies, namely HTML / JavaScript / CSS.

The Tcktcktck mobile application is now published and available in Nokia’s Ovi Store to a selection of several S60 5th Edition devices. I believe it was recently approved in Blackberry’s app world, so once the iTunes Store sorts itself out, we’ll have a bit of a success story using PhoneGap for cross-platform mobdev!
PS the canucks [...]

You can download the latest simulator from this page.
Some major PhoneGap simulator update along with two new skins (Sony Ericsson Satio & Rachael). By default, the skin size is set to 100% according to the screen resolution. This may be too big for some monitors, so a new feature has been added to scale the [...]