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PhoneGap Plugins Demo from Joe Bowser on Vimeo.
Recently, we have been working on each platform to get the platform-specific features to be encapsulated as plugins. Now, for the iPhone, that may take the shape of native controls, but for Android, we’re working on a project for the plugins called PonyGap. Why did I [...]

One of the big complaints that we keep hearing when you port PhoneGap apps over is that they don’t follow the Android UI specifications AT ALL. The alerts don’t have buttons, the back key doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do, etc, etc.
Well, we fixed the back button, and introduced a new event, menuKeyDown. [...]

I just finished the basic version of Android 1.6 Database Storage for PhoneGap. Unlike Android 2.0, which has a proper implementation of this, Android 1.6 does not. There are definitely numerous bugs that can happen with this implementation of Database Storage, such as mis-formatted numbers being passed into Javascript due to what SQLite [...]

I just pushed my latest work on PhoneGap Palm to my github repo, and it should be pulled over to the main phonegap repo shortly.
PhoneGap API’s available to Palm devices include geolocation, accelerometer, notification, orientation, sms, telephony, network, file (read only), and a limited selection of device properties (see the PhoneGap Mobile Spec running on [...]

A few weeks ago, Sony Ericsson asked Digital Dandelion to build a mobile application from web-based content using their new WebSDK and PhoneGap. They built a Google Android app around the Maverick’s Surf contest. You can find some screenshots from the app on Sachin’s blog.
Jeremiah also put together this great two-minute video talking about [...]

Last week we were at Web 2.0 Expo in NYC where we were part of an exciting announcement with Sony Ericsson, the release of the Sony Ericsson WebSDK. The WebSDK is an open source tool created in collaboration with the PhoneGap open source community. With the Sony Ericsson WebSDK, web and mobile developers can create [...]

Hey everyone,
We’ve been making some exciting progress with PhoneGap recently.
First, the Mobile Spec – our own homebrew set of tests for the PhoneGap API – is taking off. People are starting to watch it, fork it, and add to it. I am really stoked to see that – keep it coming!
Second, the PhoneGap team has [...]

So after starting off with Qt 4.6 tower, then upgrading to colossus ), then a beta release candidate, the official Qt 4.6 RAMBO release is here! Well its not called Rambo but it should be. Its got solid Qt Support, though I haven’t upgraded my PhoneGap Symbian fork yet, but will shortly. I was hoping [...]