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PhoneGap Community Highlight: OK GROW!
We’re excited to highlight people in the PhoneGap community who are creating awesome work. Our popularity and success is due to our hardworking community and we want to showcase their great work: Tell us about yourself? OK GROW! is an expert app development agency that specializes in cross platform application...
PhoneGap at Adobe Summit
The PhoneGap team is excited to be headed to the Adobe Summit from March 24-28 in Salt Lake City, UT. We’ll be sharing some news as well as have a hands-on lab to learn more about a new offering, PhoneGap Enterprise. L712 - Hands-on Lab: Building mobile apps with PhoneGap...
Windows Azure Mobile Services, now with integrated PhoneGap support
As announced by @ScottGu today, our Microsoft friends have added integrated support for PhoneGap to Azure Mobile Services. Most apps need to backend services to store data or send push notifications. With Azure Mobile Services, you can add a cloud backend to your PhoneGap app in minutes with common capabilities...
More options for app development in Ubuntu on phones with Cordova
Great news everyone! Our friends at Canonical has shared this: Canonical opens the doors to over 400,000 web developers with the announcement that the upcoming release of Cordova 3.3 will support Ubuntu. This makes it really easy for developers to bring their existing Cordova mobile apps to Ubuntu on smartphones....
PhoneGap Day EU 2013: Firefox OS Integration with Cordova
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day EU. We’ve been posting videos from the conference for those of you who couldn’t make it. View previous PhoneGap Day talks on our blog or on YouTube. Our next speaker is Jason Weathersby, Technical Evangelist from Mozilla, talking about Firefox OS Integration...
PhoneGap Day EU 2013: PhoneGap Command-Line
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day EU. We’ve been posting videos from the conference for those of you who couldn’t make it. View previous PhoneGap Day talks on our blog or on YouTube. Our next speaker is Michael Brooks, from the Cordova/PhoneGap team, giving an overview of the...
PhoneGap Day EU 2013: PhoneGap on Windows Phone: look who's doing it
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day EU. We’ll be rolling out all the videos over the coming days for those who weren’t able to attend. Our next speaker is Ruud de Jonge, Director of Windows Phone Apps for Western Europe, giving an overview of Windows Phone Apps made...
PhoneGap Day EU 2013: Chrome Plugins for Cordova
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day EU. We’ll be rolling out all the videos over the coming days for those who weren’t able to attend. Our next speaker is Andrew Grieve, developer at Google, giving an overview of Chrome plugins for Apache Cordova
PhoneGap Day 2013: Chrome Packaged Apps and PhoneGap
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day EU. We’ll be rolling out all the videos over the coming days for those who weren’t able to attend. Our next video is Joe Marini, Lead Dev Relations for Google, covering Chrome packaged apps and PhoneGap.
PhoneGap Day EU 2013: HTML5 Gaming with PhoneGap
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day EU. We’ll be rolling out all the videos over the coming days for those who weren’t able to attend. Our next video is Ally Ogilvie, Lead Engineer / Mobile Dev at Wizcorp, talking about using HTML5 for gaming and covers specific plugins...
PhoneGap Day EU 2013: Topcoat
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day EU. We’ll be rolling out all the videos over the coming days for those who weren’t able to attend. Our next video is Kristofer Joseph, JavaScript Frameworks Lead at Adobe, talking about Topcoat and how to use it to create clean and...
PhoneGap Day EU 2013: Rejected: How to Guarantee your app won't get approved
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day EU. We’ll be rolling out all the videos over the coming days for those who weren’t able to attend. Our next video is Rob Lauer, Developer Advocate for Telerik, talking about the most common reasons why hybrid mobile apps get rejected and...
PhoneGap Day EU 2013: Bringing Native UI to PhoneGap Apps
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day EU. We’ll be rolling out all the videos over the coming days for those who weren’t able to attend. Our next video is Masahiro Tanaka, CEO of Asial Corporation, talking about the difference between HTML5 based UI and native component based UI....
Bigger Apps have Arrived
The PhoneGap Build team is happy to announce the increase of file sizes to 40MB for paid users of PhoneGap Build. We heard you in the community–15MB is just too small–and after gathering your feedback, it’s clear that 40MB will help you handle larger projects through PhoneGap Build. We’re looking...
PhoneGap Day EU 2013: BlackBerry Loves the Web
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day EU. We’ll be rolling out all the videos over the coming days for those who weren’t able to attend. Next up is Jorge del Casar Sanchez, Developer Evangelist for BlackBerry, talking about HTML5 support in BlackBerry 10.
PhoneGap Day EU 2013: Untappd + PhoneGap: the Perfect Pint
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day EU. We’ll be rolling out all the videos over the coming days for those who weren’t able to attend. Next up is Greg Avola, co-founder and CTO of Untappd, talking about the creation of the PhoneGap app Untappd and its growth.
PhoneGap Day EU 2013: Tracking Daily App Downloads/Revenues
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day EU. We’ll be rolling out all the videos over the coming days for those who weren’t able to attend. First up is Vincent Hoogsteder, CEO and co-founder of Distimo, talking about tracking daily downloads and revenues from any app. Vincent shares Distimo’s...
LXJS Workshop - Beyond the demos: Building Real-Life PhoneGap Apps
At the end of September, the PhoneGap team travelled to Lisbon to attend and participate in LXJS 2013. Brian LeRoux and Christophe Coenraets co-hosted the workshop “Beyond the demos: Building Real-Life PhoneGap Apps”. Thanks to the awesome LXJS organizers, we’ve got a recording from that workshop to share with you!...
PhoneGap Day US 2013: Closing Remarks
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day US 2013 and made it such a huge success! As we mentioned in our previous PhoneGap Day posts, the audio quality is not what we were hoping for due to some technical glitches. We’ve been working madly to get it improved which...
PhoneGap Day US 2013: The Web as a Platform
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day US 2013 and made it such a huge success! As we mentioned in our previous PhoneGap Day posts, the audio quality is not what we were hoping for due to some technical glitches. We’ve been working madly to get it improved which...
PhoneGap Day US 2013: PhoneGap Self Defense for Web Devs
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day US 2013 and made it such a huge success! As we mentioned in our previous PhoneGap Day posts, the audio quality is not what we were hoping for due to some technical glitches. We’ve been working madly to get it improved which...
PhoneGap Day US 2013: Making Real Sh_t
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day US 2013 and made it such a huge success! As we mentioned in our previous PhoneGap Day posts, the audio quality is not what we were hoping for due to some technical glitches. We’ve been working madly to get it improved which...
PhoneGap Day US 2013: Windows Phone App Porting Challenge Winners
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day US 2013 and made it such a huge success! As we mentioned in our previous PhoneGap Day posts, the audio quality is not what we were hoping for due to some technical glitches. We’ve been working madly to get it improved which...
PhoneGap Day US 2013: PhoneGap and Hardware
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day US 2013 and made it such a huge success! As we mentioned in our previous PhoneGap Day posts, the audio quality is not what we were hoping for due to some technical glitches. We’ve been working madly to get it improved which...
InfoWorld Bossie Award for Best Open Source Development Tool
Adobe PhoneGap has received a Bossie Award for Best Open Source Application Development Tool! Each year, InfoWorld’s Bossies (Best of Open Source Software awards) recognize the best open source software for business. This year’s edition of awards rounds up more than 120 top projects in seven categories. PhoneGap was one...
Festival app for beer lovers
Yesterday was the first day of the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) in Denver, Colorado. Those lucky enough to attend the three-day festival can make sure they don’t miss anything (or get lost) by downloading the My GABF app. Created for The Brewers Association by Adobe agency partner The1stMovment (T1M),...
PhoneGap Day US 2013: Porting Chrome Packaged Apps to Mobile using Cordova
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day US 2013 and made it such a huge success! As we mentioned in our previous PhoneGap Day posts, the audio quality is not what we were hoping for due to some technical glitches. We’ve been working madly to get it improved which...
PhoneGap Day US 2013: Speech Recognition
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day US 2013 and made it such a huge success! As we mentioned in our previous PhoneGap Day posts, the audio quality is not what we were hoping for due to some technical glitches. We’ve been working madly to get it improved which...
PhoneGap Day US 2013: Chrome Packaged Apps
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day US 2013 and made it such a huge success! As we mentioned in our previous PhoneGap Day posts, the audio quality is not what we were hoping for due to some technical glitches. We’ve been working madly to get it improved which...
PhoneGap Day US 2013: SpiderOak - The road to a performant open source mobile app
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day US 2013 and made it such a huge success! As we mentioned in our previous PhoneGap Day posts, the audio quality is not what we were hoping for due to some technical glitches. We’ve been working madly to get it improved which...
PhoneGap and Tripcase: Be Brilliant on Every Trip
If you travel a lot, you need to check out TripCase, a free web and mobile app for travelers built for Apple and Android platforms using several developer tools, with PhoneGap playing a leading role. Created by travel technology giant Sabre, TripCase integrates with Sabre’s global distribution system so your...
PhoneGap Day US 2013: Topcoat loves Phonegap
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day US 2013 and made it such a huge success! As we mentioned in our previous PhoneGap Day posts, the audio quality is not what we were hoping for due to some technical glitches. We’ve been working madly to get it improved which...
PhoneGap Day US 2013: Using Parse to Save your Stuff
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day US 2013 and made it such a huge success! As we mentioned in our previous PhoneGap Day posts, the audio quality is not what we were hoping for due to some technical glitches. We’ve been working madly to get it improved which...
PhoneGap Day US 2013: Intel and HTML5
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day US 2013 and made it such a huge success! As we mentioned in our previous PhoneGap Day posts, the audio quality is not what we were hoping for due to some technical glitches. We’ve been working madly to get it improved which...
PhoneGap Day US 2013: PhoneGap Command-Line
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day US 2013 and made it such a huge success! As we mentioned in our previous PhoneGap Day posts, the audio quality is not what we were hoping for due to some technical glitches. We’ve been working madly to get it improved which...
PhoneGap Day US 2013: BlackBerry Loves the Web
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day US 2013 and made it such a huge success! As we mentioned in our previous PhoneGap Day posts, the audio quality is not what we were hoping for due to some technical glitches. We’ve been working madly to get it improved which...
PhoneGap Day US 2013: 10 devtools tricks in 10 minutes
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day US 2013 and made it such a huge success! As we mentioned in our last PhoneGap Day post, the audio quality is not what we were hoping for due to some technical glitches. We’ve been working madly to get it improved which...
PhoneGap Day US 2013: Mobile is not a thing. It is Everything.
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day US 2013 and made it such a huge success. I know you’ve been anxiously awaiting the PhoneGap Day US videos – us too! We’re finally getting videos back and will be posting them as we receive them. Note: the audio quality is...
PhoneGap and Adobe Leading the Way
Great news! Two reports were recently published by Gartner that demonstrate what we’ve long been working toward – Adobe, with PhoneGap in particular, is a leader in the mobile app development space. The first Gartner report, “Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms”, is an assessment of the major vendors...
A Look Back at PhoneGap Day US 2013
Another one for the record books! The PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build teams travelled to Portland, OR to release Adobe PhoneGap 3.0 as well as celebrate with the community at our 3rd annual PhoneGap Day US! We had a great time at the Leftbank Annex hearing from an amazing line-up of...
PhoneGap 3.0 FAQ
Since we released PhoneGap 3.0, we’ve received a lot of positive feedback from the community. Thanks guys! We’ve also received some great questions, so we’ve compiled this FAQ to help clear things up. Q. When will we start to see iOS7 support? A. The very same day that Apple ships...
Big Data on Small Screens
If you’ve never heard of MEASURE DHS, you’ve surely heard statistics from the more than 300 surveys the project conducts in more than 90 countries. This information about population, health, HIV, and nutrition guides both policy and humanitarian and aid programs around the world. To make this data more widely...
Adobe PhoneGap 3.0 Released
Today we’re celebrating the launch of PhoneGap 3.0 at PhoneGap Day in Portland, OR! We couldn’t have done it without the entire PhoneGap/Apache Cordova community working together to hit this major milestone. Thank you for all for your hard work! Here’s our official announcement: Adobe PhoneGap 3.0 Released at 3rd...
Congrats to our PhoneGap Build Champions
PhoneGap Build users looking for support head to our free forum hosted over on Get Satisfaction. If you’ve ever been on the forum, you’ve probably seen some people who go above and beyond by helping others. They’re not PhoneGap Build staff, but fellow Build users who are passionate about the...
Celebrate PhoneGap Day US 2013
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...
Join the PhoneGap Windows Phone Porting Challenge
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 at Adobe MAX 2013
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...
PhoneGap Build now supports PhoneGap 2.5
Great news, the PhoneGap Build team has been working hard and we now support PhoneGap 2.5.0. Happy building! In our next release, PhoneGap Build will be dropping support for versions 1.9.0 and below. We’re taking this action as we’ve noticed a significant decline in builds using those versions and we...
PhoneGap Day US 2013 - Call for Speakers
PhoneGap Day US 2013 is headed to Portland, OR again this year and we want to see you there! Mark your calendars for July 19, 2013. Want to speak at PhoneGap Day? We’re still accepting your speaking submissions! Our deadline is Apr 15, 2013. If you’ve got a great PhoneGap...
jQuery Adds Support for Windows Store Apps
Our friends at Microsoft had some exciting news last week: jQuery added full support for Windows Store applications! The popular open source JavaScript Web framework jQuery is adding full support for Windows Store applications in the upcoming v2.0 release, thanks to recent contributions from appendTo with technical support from Microsoft...
PhoneGap at Adobe MAX 2013
Adobe is hosting its MAX conference on May 4-8 in LA and we’re going to be there! This conference has a special place in our hearts as 2011’s MAX announced Nitobi was joining Adobe. We had a lot of fun and it was great to see PhoneGap’s name up on...
Getting Started with PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build
Are you brand new to PhoneGap? Where do you start? What about PhoneGap Build? There are a ton of resources out there and I’ve pulled it all together to help you get started, get some tips, and figure out where to get help. PhoneGap Intro PhoneGap is a free and...
Adobe TechLive + PhoneGap Events in February
Adobe TechLive is a new Adobe offering that delivers live interactive technical events. All events take place in Adobe Connect sessions so you can engage and get your questions answered from a variety of people: Adobe Developer Evangelists, Product Managers, and more. This is awesome for those who can’t attend...
Adobe PhoneGap Build plugin for Facebook Connect
Last week we released the GenericPush Plugin and this week we’re excited to introduce another plugin to the line up: Adobe® PhoneGap™ Build™ plugin for Facebook Connect. The new plugin uses the native Facebook app to perform Single Sign On for the user on Android and iOS devices. It uses...
Introducing GenericPush Plugin
We’re happy to announce the support of a new plugin! The GenericPush plugin is an open-source plugin for use with Cordova and allows your application to receive push notifications on both Android and iOS devices. The Android implementation uses Google’s GCM service, whereas the iOS version is based on Apple...
Friday Fun
Last November, Brian LeRoux spoke at dotJS in Paris. Watch his fun talk “WTFJS” below and enjoy!
Join us at W3Conf
The PhoneGap team is part of an awesome group within Adobe that’s committed to making web standards as accessible as possible to web developers. One of our goals is to base the PhoneGap API on web standards, and in turn see some of these standards be implemented in today’s modern...
Kinvey asks "How Long Does it Take to Build a Mobile App?"
Developers who are wondering how long it will take them to build v1 of a native iOS or Android app might just have an answer – about 18 weeks – thanks to our partner Kinvey. Based on a survey of 100 mobile developers, this infographic depicts how much time developers...
Introducing the PhoneGap Developer Directory
One of the most popular questions we get asked is “How do I find a PhoneGap Developer?” Now we’ve got a tool to help you: Introducing the PhoneGap Developer Directory! We hope the Directory can be a way to connect talented PhoneGap developers with new projects and community events. Register...
Adobe PhoneGap named Best Mobile Development Tool by Dr. Dobb's Jolt Awards
Adobe PhoneGap has received a Jolt Award for best mobile development tool by Dr. Dobb’s! Since 1991, the Dr. Dobb’s Jolt Awards have been presented annually to recognize products that have “jolted” the industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier and more efficient. Selected...
Cordova.js: JavaScript is Magic from PhoneGap Day EU 2012
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day EU and made it such a huge success. Here’s the next video in our series. Gord Tanner talks about Ripple, a mobile device emulator for your desktop, that can be installed as a Chrome extension. Ripple was developed by tinyHippos, a company...
Automating PhoneGap Build from PhoneGap Day EU 2012
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day EU and made it such a huge success. We’re sharing videos from the event for those of you who weren’t able to attend. Matt Gifford’s talk “Automating PhoneGap Build” explores the PhoneGap Build API to show how it can be used to...
What's new in PhoneGap 2.0 from PhoneGap Day EU 2012
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day EU and made it such a huge success. Here’s the next highlight video for those of you who weren’t able to attend. Our very own Dave Johnson discusses what’s new in PhoneGap 2.0, which was released July 20, 2012. He touches on...
What do Phonegap, Canvas and Urine have in Common? from PhoneGap Day EU 2012
Thank you to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day EU and made it such a huge success. Here’s the next highlight video for those of you who weren’t able to attend. Our next video is from Ian Jorgensen who intrigued the audience with his title “What do Phonegap, Canvas and Urine...
The PhoneGap Extension for Brackets
This week we announced the official launch of PhoneGap Build — a service that compiles your PhoneGap applications in the cloud, saving you the hassle of installing and maintaining SDKs for every mobile platform you want to target. There are two ways to submit code to the PhoneGap Build service:...
PhoneGap Build is Launched!
Adobe is proud to officially launch PhoneGap Build! The PhoneGap framework allows developers to build native mobile applications using the standard web tech: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. With the PhoneGap Build service, you can ease the development process by conveniently uploading assets or referencing a GitHub repo. Then, PhoneGap Build...
A Look Back at PhoneGap Day EU
We’re back from Amsterdam after celebrating our 1st annual PhoneGap Day EU! We took all the fun and learning from PhoneGap Day US in Portland and transported it to our European friends. PhoneGap Day EU surpassed our expectations with over 300 attendees and another 100 on the waitlist. Clearly there...
Fill out our Mobile Dev Survey
We’re studying the everyday work processes and tool choices of mobile developers and want to hear from you! We’re interested in a wide range of perspectives, from experienced PhoneGap developers to people who haven’t tried PhoneGap yet. All programming languages and levels of expertise are welcome. How to Participate We’re...
A Look Back at PhoneGap Day US
We’re back from Portland after celebrating our 2nd annual PhoneGap Day US! It was great to come together to officially release Adobe PhoneGap 2.0, see the latest and greatest from PhoneGap Build, and of course, drink beers with the community. And what a day it was for the community! It...
Adobe PhoneGap 2.0 Released
Today we’re celebrating the launch of PhoneGap 2.0 at PhoneGap Day in Portland! Thank you to the whole PhoneGap/Apache Cordova community for working toward this major milestone. Your time and expertise is greatly appreciated and we’ll be toasting your efforts today! Here’s our official announcement: Adobe PhoneGap 2.0 Released at...
Adobe PhoneGap named “Champion” by Info-Tech Research Group
Adobe PhoneGap was recognized as a “Champion” by Info-Tech Research Group in its 2012 Vendor Landscape: Mobile Development Platforms. Evaluated against four competitors in the Mobile Development Platform market, Info-Tech Research Group placed PhoneGap in the top-right Champion quadrant. According to Info-Tech Research Group, Champions receive high scores for most...
Limited time offer on PG Day US Tickets
Good news! Thanks to generous sponsorship from our friends at Intel, we’re lowering the price of PhoneGap Day tickets. We are now offering tickets for PhoneGap day for only $50! Purchase your tickets quick as these tickets will definitely sell out. For people who have already purchased tickets, look for...
Adobe PhoneGap named Best Cross-Platform Development Tool by CodeProject
We’re excited to announce that Adobe PhoneGap was named Best Cross-Platform Development Tool by CodeProject’s 2012 Members Choice Awards! CodeProject, one of the world’s largest independent online developer communities, present awards to the best development products and tools based on votes by their members. CodeProject.com members were asked to nominate...
Celebrate PhoneGap Day 2012
Last year, we hosted our first ever PhoneGap Day in Portland, Oregon and we’re excited to announce that we’re doing it again! On Friday, July 20th, we’re hosting our second PhoneGap Day at The LeftBank Annex in Portland, Oregon. PhoneGap Day is one part conference and one part celebration where...
PhoneGap Build welcomes Windows Phone 7
The PhoneGap Build team is proud to introduce Windows Phone 7 as the latest addition to our platform lineup! With the addition of Windows Phone 7, developers are now able to reach a new and rapidly growing market. Haven’t heard of PhoneGap Build? PhoneGap Build is a service that allows...
Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 supports PhoneGap Build
We’re really excited to announce the support of PhoneGap Build in Adobe Dreamweaver CS6! By incorporating Build, users will have a more streamlined, up-to-date, and stable development environment. Author HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript-based applications with ease. Log into PhoneGap Build via the PhoneGap Build Service Panel (Site > PhoneGap Build)...
SAP Partnership Provides Openness and Choice for Mobile App Developers
This week SAP announced a collaboration with Adobe, Appcelerator, and Sencha to provide an open mobile platform development framework. The products involved include PhoneGap, Titanium, and Sencha Touch. This partnership agreement will allow SAP to help developers build more open mobile apps based on their choice of client architecture, ranging...
New Wikipedia iOS app is powered by PhoneGap
Update Apr 25: They’ve now ported it over to BlackBerry Playbook too! Check it out here. Congratulations to Wikimedia on their Wikipedia app for iOS. We’re really excited as this new app is based on the same code as their Wikipedia Android app – both are powered by PhoneGap! Since...
Where to find us in April
The PhoneGap team is off to more conferences and meet ups in April. Check out where we’re headed: JSConf (Scottsdale), Apr 2-3. We’re stoked to be a sponsor of JSConf! We’re also sending some of our PhoneGap team to the conference. Have a beer and talk PhoneGap with Brian LeRoux,...
PhoneGap's new Device Wall
The Device Wall was born from a simple question: How can we create a test lab for past, current, and future mobile device technology? From this question sprang the Device Wall. Its physical platform provides Adobe’s Vancouver office an armature to archive phones, tablets and hybrid mobile devices that come...
Where to find us in Feb + March
In between working hard on Phonegap, we’re hitting up some events and showing our support to the community too. Here’s where you can find us: Mobile World Congress (Barcelona) - Feb 26-Mar 1 Andre Charland, Dave Johnson, and Colene Chow will be at the Adobe booth representing PhoneGap. You can...
PhoneGap Docs now in French
La version française de la doc PhoneGap est en ligne! We’re really excited to welcome PhoneGap Docs translated into French. Huge thanks and credit goes to Alan Allegret who translated all three docs – 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.3.0! Along with these new French PhoneGap docs, we also have docs translated to...
Adobe PhoneGap named 2012 Technology of the Year by InfoWorld Test Center
Today Adobe PhoneGap was named a 2012 Technology of the Year Award recipient by IDG’s InfoWorld Test Center! Selected by editors and reviewers from the InfoWorld Test Center, the annual awards identify the best and most innovative products on the IT landscape that were tested in the past year and...
PhoneGap for Windows Phone: Getting Started
Yesterday, we announced the release of PhoneGap 1.3.0. This early holiday present included many improvements, new features and bug fixes across many platforms. One of the most exciting parts of PhoneGap 1.3 is the full support of Windows Phone, including the full PhoneGap API and Windows Phone Getting Started Guide....
PhoneGap 1.3 Released
The PhoneGap Community has done it again. We are happy to announce the release of PhoneGap 1.3! In this release, we’ve made great progress with BlackBerry and Windows Phone. For BlackBerry, we’ve added OSX support so now you can develop for BlackBerry on a Mac! For Windows Phone, users can...
Building Mobile Apps in the Cloud with Tiggr and PhoneGap
Guest blog post by Max Katz Tiggr - the easiest platform for building mobile apps in the cloud Tiggr is a cloud-based mobile apps builder. It lets developers build HTML5/JavaScript and native apps very quickly, entirely in the cloud. There is nothing to download, nothing to install, and nothing to...
The ADC presents PhoneGap APIs II
Adobe Developer Evangelist Kevin Hoyt has released new videos covering more PhoneGap APIs. In these step-by-step videos he covers how to use the Connection, Contacts and Device APIs. * PhoneGap: Connection API* - PhoneGap’s Connection API can detect your mobile device’s Internet connection. Kevin explains how to use this to...
The ADC presents PhoneGap APIs
Adobe Developer Evangelist Kevin Hoyt continues his PhoneGap series with a new set of videos. Here he covers the APIs available to you and how to use them. PhoneGap: Accelerometer API - Kevin shows you how to employ mobile-specific sensors like the accelerometer into your apps. PhoneGap: Camera API -...
The ADC presents PhoneGap
The Adobe Developer Connection (ADC) is your source for technical articles and how-to videos that cover Adobe developer products and technologies. Recently, they launched a new PhoneGap series with Adobe Developer Evangelist Kevin Hoyt. The first three videos of the series give an introduction to PhoneGap as well as how...
HTML5 Now and Next
Where are we at with HTML5 and where are we going? Find out at Adobe’s meetup “HTML5 Now and Next” in San Francisco on Monday, December 5th at 6pm. This evening of code will feature a talk about HTML5 and what’s available right now, with demos of the best HTML5...
Plugins for PhoneGap + Windows Phone Mango
In early September, we announced PhoneGap for Windows Phone Mango. Since then, we’ve still been hard at work and Jesse MacFadyen, a core developer for PhoneGap, recently blogged about adding plugin support to WP7 PhoneGap apps: “We recently added plugin support to WP7 PhoneGap apps. I will outline here what...
Relive PhoneGap Day with videos
We hosted our first ever PhoneGap Day earlier this year in Portland. In case you hadn’t noticed, we’ve uploaded all the videos from that day onto our YouTube channel. Check them out on our YouTube here or view them below! Dave Johnson talks about everything you need to know about PhoneGap...
Where to find us in November
We’re nearing the end of the year but we still have time to squeeze in some road trips! We’ll be at the following conferences and events in November: November 5 - W3C Offline Apps Workshop (Redwood City) Fil Maj & Michael Brooks will be speaking on “Widget Packaging and XML...
Day 1: Nitobi joins Adobe
We’re excited to announce that Adobe’s acquisition of Nitobi closed today! The Nitobi team is looking forward to joining Adobe and with their support, continue to work on simplifying cross-platform mobile development via the PhoneGap project. We can’t wait to work on it full-time! As part of that process, Nitobi...
Mad Science with Processing.js
Let’s build a perfect scenario: You’re sitting in a dim subway station and a train goes zooming past you. Attached to the side of the train is a tall, narrow strip of LCD’s that are processing and displaying single columns of pixels of an image in a loop. As the...
Wikipedia goes Android and needs Developers
Written by: Tomasz Finc, Director of Mobile and Special Projects, Wikimedia Foundation. (See Tomasz’s original post on Wikimedia here) Over the last month, we’ve been hard at work building a Wikipedia Android app for our users and partners that prefer apps over the mobile web. It’s built with the PhoneGap...
FeedHenry leverages PhoneGap to Simplify App Development for Enterprise Clients
At FeedHenry, the PhoneGap open-source framework is an integral part of our AppStudio in our cloud-based Mobile Application Platform. AppStudio allows developers to build enterprise-grade apps in HTML5, JavaScript, CSS and deploy them to multiple platforms. This makes app development accessible to a broader base of software developers whilst offering...
Mobile Development with Orion and PhoneGap
What would it take to build a complete mobile tool chain in the browser? The question is quite relevant for today’s mobile developers, who currently have to download large SDK’s to develop and build their mobile applications (and buy a Mac if you want to develop for iOS). If you...
Nitobi enters into Acquisition Agreement with Adobe
We have exciting news to share—we’re being acquired by Adobe! Adobe has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nitobi (including PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build). This was officially announced today at Adobe’s MAX 2011 technology Conference in Los Angeles. What does this mean for us? This acquisition will allow Nitobi...
PhoneGap Build moves to Open Beta
Last November, we launched PhoneGap Build, a new service built on top of PhoneGap. PhoneGap Build takes the pain out of compiling mobile apps across multiple platforms. You simply write your app using HTML, CSS or JavaScript, upload it to the PhoneGap Build service, and get back app-store ready apps...
PhoneGap Meetup at Microsoft
Come join our PhoneGap meetup at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. on_* October 7 from 7-9pm_*. It’s totally free! This informal, fun meetup will feature an introduction to PhoneGap. See a hands-on tutorial showing you how to use your HTML/JavaScript skills to build applications for mobile platforms including iPhone,...
PhoneGap at Social Media Week Vancouver
It’s Social Media Week worldwide and Vancouver is involved for the first time! PhoneGap’s Joni Rustulka will be involved in the Mobile and App Summit which takes place on September 22 from 4-7pm at Emily Carr University of Art + Design: Join Vancouver’s mobile development and marketing community for a...
Special Webinar: PhoneGap & Worklight
Using PhoneGap for Mobile App Development in the Enterprise With over 500,000 downloads, PhoneGap is a rapidly becoming one of the most popular mobile app frameworks for cross-platform development. Incorporated into Worklight’s award-winning mobile application platform, the technology is now making its mark on enterprise developers and architects deploying both...
New Strobe Platform plays nicely with PhoneGap
Congratulations to Strobe on its recent launch! Strobe is a new app platform and delivery network that helps developers build HTML5-based Web applications for desktops, smartphones and tablets, while centrally managing them from a single interface. The best part? Strobe has PhoneGap Build integration built in, which allows users to...
Where to find us in September
PhoneGap is hittin’ the road! We’ve got a couple dates in September with more coming later in the Fall: September 12 - Breaking Development Conference (Nashville) Building Native Mobile Apps with PhoneGap and HTML5 with Dave Johnson * September 16 - Future of Mobile Conference (London)* HTML5 and cross-platform native...
PhoneGap Facebook Platform Plugin Simplifies Log In for Mobile Users
We’re proud to announce the launch of a new PhoneGap Facebook Platform plugin! This plugin makes it easy for any PhoneGap developer to add Facebook’s single sign-on functionality to their mobile apps. Plus, single sign-on functionality improves the experience for end users. With more than 250 million people accessing Facebook...
PhoneGap at DreamForce, Aug 30-Sept 2, 2011
PhoneGap will be at Salesforce’s annual user and developer conference (Dreamforce) in San Francisco next week. Dreamforce is the cloud computing event of the year bringing together all the leaders in cloud computing to share, connect, and inspire. Naturally, it’s right up our alley! You can catch PhoneGap in three...
PhoneGap Day: Mobile Web Design Panel
Here’s the next video in the PhoneGap Day talk series! This discussion features PinchZoom’s Brian Fling, Sencha’s David Kaneda, and Nitobi’s very own Joni Rustulka and covers the process of discovery and design in the mobile space. The discussion includes: When do you make a mobile site vs a mobile...