“You know, I have this great idea for an app.” I get told this, a lot (particularly when it is late at night and a couple of beers may have been consumed). Like writing the next Great American Novel, I think we all have ideas for apps. The concept of touch technology is now central […]
A very popular framework for building HTML5 mobile web apps is jQuery Mobile. The following video steps you through how to get started with a blank page and build your first Web app. The first step in creating a jQuery Mobile web app is to create a standard HTML page. The following will do: <html> <head> <meta charset=”UTF-8″> <title>jQuery Mobile […]
Adobe is expanding the tools in the PhoneGap line to now include PhoneGap Developer App. The Developer App essentially allows you to run PhoneGap projects you are developing on your computer easily an Android and iOS devices. The following video steps you through what you need to know to get started with PhoneGap Developer App for Android and […]
There are lots of different ways to build mobile web sites. What I have pulled together is a collection of techniques that our teams use to allow your web site to look awesome on mobile devices. This is important due to the rapidly increasing demand for web sites optimized for the growing number of wireless […]
You will often hear me talk about the “stickiness” of mobile apps. They just are. When you are in an app you are wrapped in the world of the experience. No distractions, no way to be “just one click away” – you are immersed. But, the web is still amazingly important. This is the reason […]
There is a war of words in the development community when it comes to the core approach to mobile app development: use cross platform hybrid development or use native languages. There is a strong argument for both. Hybrid Development The approach to Hybrid Development is to work with HTML5 container technologies (HTML, JavaScript and CSS) […]
Do you use PhoneGap to build apps? CLICK TO VOTE Yes, all the time http://wedgi.es/1izpDS3 No, it doesn’t scale http://wedgi.es/1izpC0p I just put together a quick “How To Get Started With PhoneGap / Cordova” video and I am interested in knowing what you develop in PhoneGap / Cordova?
Apache Cordova is the open source version of PhoneGap. The following video takes you through the steps of installing Cordova and building your first iOS app on your Mac. Most of steps will also work for installing Cordova on a Windows Machine – but you will not be able to build an iOS app (that’s […]
Digital Strategy is something we are all thinking about. Our worlds are tightly connected with technology – from smartphones, tablets, PC, Smart TVs, wearable devices and connected vehicles – and our highly connected world is providing opportunities to deliver new ways to service our customers. So, let’s build a digital strategy, right? What I have found, […]
Android is, without doubt, a massive success. Each day Google records more than a million activations of new Android devices; Android powers close to 80% of the world’s Smartphones and more than a million apps are available for Android through stores such as Google Play and Amazon App Store. So, how did we get here? […]