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Power Your PhoneGap App with the New ShowKit SDK by Matt Van Veenendaal | 13 Jun 2013 | PhoneGap Blog, Guest Post ShowKit, a powerful mobile SDK that allows developers to easily integrate audio/video conferencing, screen sharing, and remote gesture control into any mobile application, is happy to announce that our latest release now supports PhoneGap integration. Together, PhoneGap and ShowKit make developing robust mobile applications easier. PhoneGap simplifies app creation for multiple platforms and ShowKit offers PhoneGap users the ease of adding powerful in-app communication features. View more... Read more...
PhoneGap 2.8.0 Released! by Steve Gill | 07 Jun 2013 | PhoneGap Blog, Release We have just released PhoneGap 2.8.0! Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to get this release out. We’ve squashed a lot of bugs this release to make way for some really big improvements coming soon. We’ll be unveiling some big changes at PhoneGap Day US in Portland, OR on July 19. Join us at PhoneGap Day to hear the news firsthand! Early bird tickets are only $25! You can view the 2.8.0 commits in the changelog on GitHub. Joe Bowser has a written up a good summary about what is... Read more...
Celebrate PhoneGap Day US 2013 by Colene Chow | 29 May 2013 | PhoneGap Blog, Event, Community, News We’re excited to announce our 3rd Annual PhoneGap Day! On Friday July 19th, we’re celebrating PhoneGap Day at The LeftBank Annex in Portland, Oregon. What’s it all about? PhoneGap Day is one part conference and one part celebration where you’ll meet and mingle with like-minded people interested in PhoneGap and mobile app development. You’ll help us celebrate the Apache Cordova community’s achievements and recognize their hard work on each monthly release. ... Read more...
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...
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...
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...
PhoneGap 2.7.0 Released! by Steve Gill | 30 Apr 2013 | PhoneGap Blog, Release We have just released PhoneGap 2.7.0! Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to get this release out. In this release, the community mainly focused on bug fixes. View the 2.7.0 commits in the changelog on GitHub. If you find any bugs with this version, help out our community and project by reporting them on our issue tracker. Read more...
New AT&T APIs for Adobe PhoneGap by AT&T Developer Program | 24 Apr 2013 | PhoneGap Blog, Guest Post We’re delighted to introduce two new features for AT&T SDK for PhoneGap– Advertising API and Text to Speech transcription (part of the Speech API update). Advertising Create a new revenue stream through the use of customized advertising. The Advertising API allows you to incorporate a simple, easy-to-use solution that supports revenue share-based monetization of your apps through the placement of paid advertising. Speech – Speech to Text and Text to Speech Powered by the AT&T... Read more...
PhoneGap 2.7.0rc1 Released! by Steve Gill | 23 Apr 2013 | PhoneGap Blog, Release We have just released the first release candidate (RC) for PhoneGap 2.7.0 and plan on releasing the official release in the coming days. If you find any bugs with this version, help out our community and project by reporting them on our issue tracker. Rest assured, we only tag a release candidate if we are happy with where the code is. View the 2.7.0rc1 commits in the change log on GitHub. Read more...
The Story behind Exfm by Dan Kantor | 23 Apr 2013 | PhoneGap Blog, Guest Post Six months ago, Exfm had a native iPhone app that was rated 4 stars in the App Store. We also had a native app in Google Play, along with an HTML5 webapp for both desktop and mobile. As a small team of six, we do most of our development in-house, but had contracted out a lot of the native mobile app work. Around this time, I sat down with Lucas Hrabovsky, CTO of Exfm to plan for the future. We looked at our native mobile apps, our Python back-end and our Javascript front-end. We thought about... Read more...