Some month ago I posted an article named Into PhoneGap: an example of API-aware native iPhone app with HTML5 and SQL local database and several readers asked me for the full source code of the example app. In this post I would like to do more. In recent times I had to chance to work a lot [...]
Web apps optimized for mobile devices may now count on specific, advanced functions offered by a cross synergy commitment between new W3 specifications, browsers vendors and hardware producer: I’m talking about HTML5, low-level events implementation for touchable surfaces. This gives designers huge opportunities to create new products based on web technologies, often replicating native app [...]
Mobile web application libraries are dividing in two main groups: lightweight libraries and complex and (often heavy) application framework with extended UI support. Introduction A good point of balance is iUI – a web UI framework for mobile devices. It offers a really basic, but very functional, navigation system between pages (the classic left-to-right and [...]
These days I had the opportunity to test PhoneGap, an open source framework for creating native mobile apps with web standards. So, first things came to mind when you think about HTML5, is that even if mobile browsers are very fast to implement new features, you cannot truly count on “standards” but on “drafts”. The [...]