I was part of the team dispatched to 2012 Content in Context to demo our new mobile study app (if you want more info about that, go here). I attended a session that had a panel made up of members from large educational publishing companies. A member in the audience asked the panel a question: [...]
What do you mean, cross-platform? Cross-platform mobile development, the white whale of the mobile developer. Cross-platform mobile development can mean many things to many people. In my opinion as a developer, for an application to be cross-platform, it has to hit these three points: Have a single code base Building a new feature means it [...]
If you’re just getting into mobile development, you’ll want to choose a framework that will work within your technical conditions: platforms, languages, support, etc. Markus Falk put together a nice chart to compare the technical features of more than 30 mobile frameworks available. Check out his chart to get started. After going through technical specs, [...]
For iOS and Android Updated December 7, 2012 Recently, we built a mobile app using PhoneGap. One of the better things to come out of it is a skeleton for future mobile app development for iOS and Android projects. We were able to bundle both the Eclipse project and Xcode project files together. This can [...]
Introduction These days everyone is looking to port their existing application(s) to mobile devices. Some of those folks are using tools like RhoMobile, PhoneGap, Appcelerator, etc. to write their applications with HTML5/JavaScript/CSS and then port the same code base to various mobile phone platforms with minimal to zero extra effort. In a perfect world, your [...]