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Last week I heard about Palm’s new hot app promotion. It is pretty much an incentive to developers to make palm apps, have them get ranked and get some easy money (find details here). I realized that a lot of PhoneGap developers seem to just develop for the iPhone and android and I wanted show [...]

This is my biggest pet-peeve to date. We get a lot of people trying to use PhoneGap across all devices. However, despite the work that people have done on droidgap, most people still use Eclipse as the primary way they develop with Android, because that’s what people read in the Wiki.
The problem is [...]

A recent blog post by Steve at http://globalconstant.scnay.com/ revealed that HTML Select elements were not working in PhoneGap Palm … and after a quick test it appears that they’re not supported by WebOS at all. I scoured the internets trying to find this documented or discussed, and all I found was someone else mentioning it [...]

I’ve been a bit inactive on PhoneGap recently, as we’ve had some client projects on the go. Need those $$ to keep the open-source projects rollin. But since its been a while, I wanted to give at least a status update on the PhoneGap platforms that I maintain.
There have been some updates to the PhoneGap [...]

Lots of new features have been added to Android Froyo 2.2. Among the most exciting ones are: Better speed with the inclusion of the V8 Javascript engine, JIT compiler as well as a new set of backup/storage and cloud messaging APIs.
I wanted to see how PhoneGap would work on Froyo so I ran mobile-spec on [...]