PhoneGap: Mobile Applications with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Published January 26th, 2010 Under Javascript, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
Brian LeRoux presents PhoneGap, a mobile web framework for creating phone applications using just HTML, CSS and JavaScript without having to program in phone’s native language, Objective C, Java or C++. PhoneGap is open source and currently works on IPhone, Android and Blackberry, supporting features like: geo-location, vibration, accelerometer, sound and contacting support.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/PhoneGap-Mobile-Applications-with-HTML-CSS-JavaScript
RIA Architectures: An Exclusive Interview with Adobe’s Duane Nickull
Published December 29th, 2009 Under General | Leave a Comment
DZone recently caught up with Duane Nickull, Senior Technical Evangelist at Adobe Systems and bass player with the band 22nd Century. In this interview, recorded at Adobe MAX 2009, Duane revisits the notion of ‘Web 2.0′, and discusses some of the new architectural and human interaction patterns that are shaping the way in which we build Web applications today. He talks about some of the new Flash authoring tools for the iPhone, the Open Screen Project, as well as the impact HTML 5 will have on Flash adoption.
Complete transcript of the interview
iPhone Acceptance Testing with uispec
Published November 30th, 2009 Under Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
UISpec is a Behavior Driven Development framework for the iPhone that provides a full automated testing solution that drives the actual iPhone UI. It is modeled after the very popular RSpec for Ruby. To make finding specific views in the iPhone UI easy, UISpec includes a very powerful view traversal DSL called UIQuery. Not only can you easily traverse the view heirarchy, you can also interact with the views you find.
Introduction to iPhone Development
Published November 16th, 2009 Under General | Leave a Comment
This video presents:
* How to use Interface Builder to build the UI visually.
* How to hook up IBOutlets and IBActions from the view controller to the view elements in Interface Builder
* How to do animation with CoreAnimation
* How to create & position views programmatically
PhoneGap for building iPhone and Android applications
Published September 8th, 2009 Under Javascript, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
PhoneGap makes building iPhone and Android applications a snap with regular HTML, CSS and JavaScript. XUI is a nifty javascript microframework designed for building mobile web applications. Avoid the heresy of Objective-C or Java and return to the sanity of the open web. In this talk Brian will guide you through the creation of a mobile web app that is app store ready and talk a little about the future platforms for PhoneGap and XUI.