Robotlegs using a shared eventdispatcher between multiple contexts
My last couple posts discussed two different methods of writing modular applications using the Robotlegs framework. This post will demonstrate yet another method of writing modular applications in...
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Getting Started with PhoneGap WebOS 0.9.5
This is a walkthrough of creating a webOS mobile app using PhoneGap 0.9.5. If you’ve previously created webOS apps using older versions of PhoneGap; you will notice that the biggest difference with...
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setOrientation & setFullScreen in PhoneGap-0.9.5 WebOS
If you’ve never worked with PhoneGap WebOS; I would strongly recommend that you follow through my previous post. This demonstration applies to the recently released PhoneGap-0.9.5 implementation of...
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Notifications & Dashboard in PhoneGap-0.9.5 WebOS
If you’ve never worked with PhoneGap-0.9.5 WebOS; I would strongly recommend that you follow through my Getting Started with PhoneGap-0.9.5 WebOS tutorial. This demonstration applies to the recently...
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Using SQLite with PhoneGap-0.9.5 webOS
PhoneGap-0.9.5 webOS no longer includes the Mojo framework, so you will not be able to use the Depot APIs to create & manipulate local storage. If your webOS app needs a database, you will need to...
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PhoneGap-0.9.5 webOS newCard API
WebOS uses the concept of cards as it’s main UI element. Each application exists in a card, applications can even open up multiple cards. For example, if you had the Map app and Browser active on your...
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Getting Started with PhoneGap-webOS 0.9.6
With the release of PhoneGap 0.9.6 last week (week of June 27, 2011), there was some minor code clean up done to the way PhoneGap-webOS initializes. This blog post will quickly run through an example...
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PhoneGap-webOS 1.0.0rc1 now with Touch Events
The release of PhoneGap-webOS 1.0.0rc1 adds built-in support for touch events. The touch events use the thumbs.js library which has been rolled into PhoneGap-webOS. To use the touch events in...
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Here are few neat tricks that you can use when messing around with PhoneGap-webOS’s newCard API: have the new card close the parent card close the new card pass data to a the new card NOTE: passing...
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Building & Installing Firefox OS (aka Boot to Gecko or B2G)
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks playing around with Mozilla’s Firefox OS (aka Boot to Gecko or B2G) project as part of my research to prototype an Apache Cordova / Adobe PhoneGap implementation for...
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