- PhoneGap build, 6 frustrating issues explained Phonegap & phonegap Build are amazing technologies, unfortunately the documentation does not always tell you want you want to know. Here a compilation of issues I encountered while using phonegap build for the first time & how I solved them. Black bars only on iPhone 5 (not full size). I had this issue right from […]
- An html5 app turned native in 10 minutes with phonegap build? It’s possible, kind of. By now I’m pretty sure you know of PhoneGap. The framework that enables you to put an html5 app in a web view & push it into the different appstore. But do you know about PhoneGap Build? Intended for the ones that do not want to get their hand directly into the sdk, this new […]
- Releasing Backbone.js Mobile Components, beta version Doing mobile web apps can be challenging, not that it’s really harder than doing desktop style app, it’s just different. Working with mobile you need to focus on simplicity & performance. When I started dabbling into doing mobile web apps with Backbone.js I really wanted to abstract from the start the mobile part to focus […]
- iPresent, mobile mockups presenter At CakeMail we are ramping up our mobile effort with a new mobile web app, recently we hit a milestone & completed most of the interface design. It got me wondering what could be the best way to get my coworkers to experience on their phone what this was going to be all about. Turns […]
- The road to mobile web application development It seems every web company get to that problem one way or the other. Should you leverage your web expertise and try to simply create a mobile web app or go completely native? Since I am currently coding a web app for Cakemail I tought it would be a good idea to do a round […]
- A call to all web developers, launching a twitter campaign to force webkit to implement a position fixed in mobile webkit Hey guys, I need YOU for 2 minutes, Some of you guys might not know that it is impossible to have a fixed toolbar in mobile webkit, this is because we can’t fix anything to the gridview webkit produce. This is something we need if one day we really want to be a contender to […]
- The mobile webkit fixed position problem If there is one thing you will be missing while developing your mobile web application for Webkit, it is the CSS fixed position. You cannot effectively fix an element on the iPhone, and mobile device are no powerhouse to emulate it with javascript. The problem is simple, yet there is no perfect solution to it. […]
- jQTouch HTML5 database api extension If you want to dive in mobile website and you are a good jQuery developer, you will love jQTouch. It’s one of the best mobile web framework out there. However, one thing I found it was missing, was some database api. In webkit you now have access to one database per website address. Think of […]
- Google invest in mobile advertisement with AdMob According to a report by Diesem Link, Google recently acquired AdMob, a pioneer company into mobile advertisement. Given the Google position on advertising (leader..) it is not to be surprise they bought a rising star in mobile advertisement. For me, mobile advertisement is really a big hassle. It take so much space of your tiny […]
- Position Absolute goes mobile, and a small introduction to jQtouch What a better way of testing the jQtouch beta that by creating a mobile version of Position Absolute. You can test it out with safari at this address, or just tap position-absolute.com in your iPhone. What can I say, I am stunned at the work here, jQtouch should really be your framework for creating small […]