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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...
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...
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...
Firebase Adds PhoneGap Integration by Rob DiMarco | 16 Apr 2013 | PhoneGap Blog, Guest Post, News Many developers have been using Firebase in their PhoneGap applications since our beta launch nearly a year ago. We know many of you encountered some rough edges, so we’ve put a lot of work into making sure the experience of developing with PhoneGap and Firebase is a smooth one. Today, we’re announcing that the Adobe PhoneGap / Apache Cordova platform is fully-supported by Firebase and works out of the box to offer the full suite of functionality that Firebase provides on the... Read more...
The BYOD challenge to enterprise App development by Steve Christianson | 13 Mar 2013 | PhoneGap Blog, Guest Post, Framework Mobile BYOD in enterprise means security can no longer be focused at the device level, but now needs to consider the App level. This puts a big burden on corporate developers and small ISVs, as handling security, communications and authentication can be a tough job and one where the consequences of data leakage are severe. Coupled with the further challenge of how to author a mobile-friendly solution that runs across multiple mobile OS platforms and does not require expensive or proprietary... Read more...
My First Mobile Game in HTML with PhoneGap Build by Baptiste Brunet | 18 Jan 2013 | PhoneGap Blog, Guest Post, Android, App, PhoneGap Build In this post, I’ll explain how I created a simple puzzle-game in HTML then turned it into an Android app. I have always been a puzzle-game player: Tetris, Dr Mario, Puyo Puyo, Super Puzzle Fighter, etc. So, as a web developer, I wanted to try and build my own puzzle-game using the languages I know – HTML / CSS / JavaScript. I also wanted the layout of my game to be “responsive” so I could play it on my PC as well as on my phone. I used the game Bejeweled as a model... Read more...
The Development Framework for Apps Running On The Internet of Things by Sravish Sridhar, Kinvey | 28 Nov 2012 | PhoneGap Blog, Guest Post, iOS, Android, Windows Phone At a recent dinner, I took part in a lively conversation about whether Apple will launch a new suite of home products. Imagine an iToaster, iMicrowave or even an iToothBrush – how would Apple re-imagine our common household appliances by combining its design aesthetic with relevant information? Since the dinner was filled with tech geeks, it wasn’t clear if people’s mouths were watering because of the food or the possibility of an iFridge. The funny thing is this discussion wasn’t... Read more...
Push Messaging plugin from mBlox by mBlox | 25 Oct 2012 | PhoneGap Blog, Guest Post, Plugin, Android, iOS, Guide Push messaging can help keep users active and engaged. This is especially true of consumer apps where usage drops off rapidly after the initial install. Push messaging can also be used to inform users of any updates on the server. For enterprise apps, this prevents unnecessary queries that burden the server and saves battery life. The mBlox push messaging plugin allows you to take advantage of the following capabilities: Send push messages to iOS and Android devices Send geo-fenced messages... Read more...
Wikitude provides PhoneGap users with augmented reality plugin by Dan Taylor | 09 Oct 2012 | PhoneGap Blog, Guest Post, Plugin Here at Wikitude, we’re constantly striving to deliver the very best in augmented reality experiences. In addition to building and developing the Wikitude app and Architect engine, we’re also app makers ourselves. A count around the office reveals that we have no fewer than 18 Android or iPhone app publishers amongst us. We’re no gurus, but we’re fairly confident that we understand the sometimes frustrating process of building apps. We’ve been fans of PhoneGap since the Nitobi days,... Read more...
PhoneGap and Kinvey Integrate Technology to Bring Developers End-to-End Integration by abourne | 10 Jul 2012 | PhoneGap Blog, Guest Post PhoneGap and Kinvey, Inc., the leading Backend as a Service company that makes it easy for developers to setup and operate scalable cloud backends for mobile, tablet and web apps, today announce an “end-to-end” technical integration between the PhoneGap environment and Kinvey’s Backend as a Service.  With this new solution, developers using PhoneGap to build mobile applications can now save themselves the time and aggravation of building the backend "plumbing" that every data-driven... Read more...