WorkArchive for the "phonegap" Tag
WebSockets in PhoneGap Projects
I’m a big fan of the WebSockets API for all the real-time goodness it offers, but the iOS platform doesn’t (currently) bake the WebSockets API in to mobile Safari. That sucks, particularly because I can enjoy making iOS native apps using awesome frameworks like PhoneGap. However, because I’m using PhoneGap, I can create a PhoneGap [...]
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Custom URL schemes in PhoneGap
With Marbles2 for iOS I wanted people to be able to click on a url, like marbles2.com/app/?seed=2A72367A and if the app is installed on the iOS device, for it to launch Marbles2 and initialise with the “seed” passed in. It required a change to the iPhone PhoneGap project, which has been since merged in to [...]
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Universal launch images with PhoneGap
I’ve been playing with PhoneGap a lot recently, in part to prepare Marbles2, but also to bring JS Console to the iPhone as a native app. I’ve always wanted to create an app that worked on all devices, but getting the launch image correct for each device can be tricky.
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