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Capturing camera/picture data without PhoneGap by Raymond Camden | 20 May 2013 | PhoneGap Network 
As people know, I'm a huge fan of PhoneGap and what it allows me to do with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. But I think it is crucial to remember that you don't always need PhoneGap. A great example of that is camera access. Did you know that recent mobile browsers support accessing the camera directly from HTML and JavaScript? Let's look at an example.Over a year ago I wrote a blog post where I created an application called "Color Thief." This application made use of PhoneGap's Camera API and a... Visit Raymond's Blog
As people know, I'm a huge fan of PhoneGap and what it allows me to do with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. But I think it is crucial to remember that you don't always need PhoneGap. A great example of that is camera access. Did you know that recent mobile browsers support accessing the camera directly from HTML and JavaScript? Let's look at an example.Over a year ago I wrote a blog post where I created an application called "Color Thief." This application made use of PhoneGap's Camera API and a... Visit Raymond's Blog Join the PhoneGap Windows Phone Porting Challenge by Colene Chow | 20 May 2013 | PhoneGap Blog, Windows Phone, News As you may know, PhoneGap supports the Windows Phone platform including the new capabilities in Windows Phone 8 , including IE 10. We’re excited to announce a fun new challenge from our friends at Microsoft: The PhoneGap Windows Phone Porting Challenge! Do you have an existing PhoneGap app? Port your PhoneGap app to the Windows Phone Store. Not only will you reach a wider audience to expose your app to, but you could also win some cool prizes! 20 winners in total with 3 grand prize... Read more...
As you may know, PhoneGap supports the Windows Phone platform including the new capabilities in Windows Phone 8 , including IE 10. We’re excited to announce a fun new challenge from our friends at Microsoft: The PhoneGap Windows Phone Porting Challenge! Do you have an existing PhoneGap app? Port your PhoneGap app to the Windows Phone Store. Not only will you reach a wider audience to expose your app to, but you could also win some cool prizes! 20 winners in total with 3 grand prize... Read more... Cordova will no longer support BlackBerry 7 and Below post 3.0 by Lorin Beer | 16 May 2013 | PhoneGap Blog, Blackberry, News With the release of the BlackBerry 10 platform, the Apache Cordova/PhoneGap team have decided to focus efforts on creating the best possible framework for mobile apps on BlackBerry devices. To further this goal, support will be deprecated for the venerable BlackBerry Java platform with the release of Cordova 3.0 in July 2013. Cordova is undergoing a major architectural transformation as we near 3.0. This transformation will bring a uniform interface for creating and managing Cordova... Read more...
With the release of the BlackBerry 10 platform, the Apache Cordova/PhoneGap team have decided to focus efforts on creating the best possible framework for mobile apps on BlackBerry devices. To further this goal, support will be deprecated for the venerable BlackBerry Java platform with the release of Cordova 3.0 in July 2013. Cordova is undergoing a major architectural transformation as we near 3.0. This transformation will bring a uniform interface for creating and managing Cordova... Read more... PhoneGap & Android Studio by Andrew Trice | 16 May 2013 | PhoneGap Network Yesterday at GoogleIO, Google announced Android Studio, a new development environment for authoring Android applications. This is a great looking new IDE for Android, based off of IntelliJ IDEA, with some new Android-specific tools and features. You can read more about Android Studio on the Google Android Developers blog. One of my first tasks upon [...] Visit Andrew's Blog
Yesterday at GoogleIO, Google announced Android Studio, a new development environment for authoring Android applications. This is a great looking new IDE for Android, based off of IntelliJ IDEA, with some new Android-specific tools and features. You can read more about Android Studio on the Google Android Developers blog. One of my first tasks upon [...] Visit Andrew's Blog PhoneGap at Adobe MAX 2013 by Colene Chow | 15 May 2013 | PhoneGap Blog, Event, Video The PhoneGap team headed to LA from May 4-8 to attend Adobe MAX. We were stoked to have so many PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build sessions there! We met tons of people who were new to PhoneGap and lots who were already familiar with us and wanted to take it to the next level. Did you know? The Adobe MAX mobile companion app was made with PhoneGap! Even though the conference is now over, you can still check out the app and see how it works. If you weren't able to attend MAX, we have a video... Read more...
The PhoneGap team headed to LA from May 4-8 to attend Adobe MAX. We were stoked to have so many PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build sessions there! We met tons of people who were new to PhoneGap and lots who were already familiar with us and wanted to take it to the next level. Did you know? The Adobe MAX mobile companion app was made with PhoneGap! Even though the conference is now over, you can still check out the app and see how it works. If you weren't able to attend MAX, we have a video... Read more... Architecting a PhoneGap Application: Video + Slides by Christophe Coenraets | 13 May 2013 | PhoneGap Network Here is the video of my PhoneGap Architecture talk at Adobe MAX 2013: The slides are available here. Visit Christophe's Blog
Here is the video of my PhoneGap Architecture talk at Adobe MAX 2013: The slides are available here. Visit Christophe's Blog Top 10 Performance Techniques for PhoneGap Applications by Christophe Coenraets | 13 May 2013 | PhoneGap Network Here is the video of my PhoneGap performance session at Adobe MAX 2013: Visit Christophe's Blog
Here is the video of my PhoneGap performance session at Adobe MAX 2013: Visit Christophe's Blog The Ottawa City Councillor PhoneGap app by Simon MacDonald | 13 May 2013 | PhoneGap Network So a couple of friends of mine wanted to learn more about programming mobile applications so we decided to get together and create an application for the Apps4Ottawa competition.We settled on creating an application that would enable folks from Ottawa to learn more about and connect with their city councillors. Sadly, I didn't even know who my city councillor was until I started working on this app.It uses the open data Ottawa to get the city councillor information and it the Open... Visit Simon's Blog
So a couple of friends of mine wanted to learn more about programming mobile applications so we decided to get together and create an application for the Apps4Ottawa competition.We settled on creating an application that would enable folks from Ottawa to learn more about and connect with their city councillors. Sadly, I didn't even know who my city councillor was until I started working on this app.It uses the open data Ottawa to get the city councillor information and it the Open... Visit Simon's Blog PhoneGap AdobeMax Sessions by Simon MacDonald | 10 May 2013 | PhoneGap Network Were you at AdobeMax this week? No, neither was I. Disappointed? Yeah, me too. Luckily Adobe is posting their talks on line for everyone to be able to watch. Not everything is up yet so I will update this post as they become available. Right now I recommend checking out:Top 10 Performance Techniques for PhoneGap Applications by Christophe Coenraets Architecting PhoneGap Applications by Christophe CoenraetsAdvanced PhoneGap Build by Raymond Camden Designing and Developing PhoneGap... Visit Simon's Blog
Were you at AdobeMax this week? No, neither was I. Disappointed? Yeah, me too. Luckily Adobe is posting their talks on line for everyone to be able to watch. Not everything is up yet so I will update this post as they become available. Right now I recommend checking out:Top 10 Performance Techniques for PhoneGap Applications by Christophe Coenraets Architecting PhoneGap Applications by Christophe CoenraetsAdvanced PhoneGap Build by Raymond Camden Designing and Developing PhoneGap... Visit Simon's Blog MAX Session: Advanced PhoneGap Build by Raymond Camden | 10 May 2013 | PhoneGap Network Oddly, the last of my Adobe MAX sessions is available online now but none of my earlier ones. I assume they will show up in the next day or so. But for now, enjoy my eloquent presentation on the more advanced aspects of using PhoneGap Build. You can download the source code for the sample apps and slide deck as well. As always, I hope this is helpful! Visit Raymond's Blog
Oddly, the last of my Adobe MAX sessions is available online now but none of my earlier ones. I assume they will show up in the next day or so. But for now, enjoy my eloquent presentation on the more advanced aspects of using PhoneGap Build. You can download the source code for the sample apps and slide deck as well. As always, I hope this is helpful! Visit Raymond's Blog Back
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