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Comment on Git Tools for Mac OS X by Philip Hutchison

Philip Hutchison — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:14:37 +0000

+1 for Tower. It made Git less confusing for me, which is no small feat. :)

Comment on App Icons for iOS, AIR and Android by Tony Lukasavage

Tony Lukasavage — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:07:09 +0000

I did a post recently that expands on this listing, you might find it useful: http://savagelook.com/blog/android/mobile-developers-icon-image-checklist

Comment on App Icons for iOS, AIR and Android by App Icons for iPad, iPhone, iOS, AIR 2.5 And AIR Android | Adobe Flash Lite

App Icons for iPad, iPhone, iOS, AIR 2.5 And AIR Android | Adobe Flash Lite — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:12:04 +0000

[...] iPhone — Tags: AIR 2.5, Android, IOS, ipad, iPhone — Li YongFei @ 10:11 pm Tom King has posted a table that made of the various sizes needed for iPhone, iPad, Universal iOS, AIR 2.5 [...]

Comment on PhoneGap Lessons Learned- Mac edition by WebApps für Android mit Eclipse, PhoneGap for Android und dem MDS PhoneGap for Android Plug-In | MARTINSFELD

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:12:32 +0000

[...] die Installation von Android und PhoneGap unter Windows sowie PhoneGap unter Mac OS X findet man im Blog von Tom King weitere nützliche [...]

Comment on PhoneGap Lessons Learned- Windows Edition by WebApps für Android mit Eclipse, PhoneGap for Android und dem MDS PhoneGap for Android Plug-In | MARTINSFELD

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:12:08 +0000

[...] die Installation von Android und PhoneGap unter Windows sowie PhoneGap unter Mac OS X findet man im Blog von Tom King weitere nützliche [...]

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Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:02:58 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Tom King, Tom King. Tom King said: New blog posting, Coda Plugin- HTML5 Manifest Generator – http://tinyurl.com/4gyp7sf [...]

Comment on PhoneGap Lessons Learned- Mac edition by Tom King

Tom King — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 02:15:44 +0000

Jason, I used iUI because I learned it in late 2008 and already knew it.

Funny that you mention jQuery mobile, I begin porting my prototype to that on Monday.

Comment on PhoneGap Lessons Learned- Windows Edition by Tom King

Tom King — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 02:12:13 +0000

I'd beg to differ on ruby, but maybe you can enlighten me. Ruby not needed for what, just compile? It seems integral to the droidgap commands. How does one do droidgap update to update a project to the latest framework? The

droidgap.bat/ file contains the following:
  ruby %~dp0droidgap %1 %2
and that does indeed seem to depend on ruby and not the included file
  phonegap-android\lib\jruby-complete-1.4.0RC1.jar

Maybe there is a way to do this from within Eclipse?

Good tip on the Android environment var, it now looks like a best practice might be along the lines of setting three variables for the Android "home" path for the various IDEs. I say this based on PhoneGap docs, your comment, and notes on Appcelerator Titanium and Android SDK Tools r8. I'm updating my system to:

  ANDROID_SDK=C:\android-sdk-windows
  ANDROID_HOME=%ANDROID_SDK%
  ANDROID_SDK_HOME=%ANDROID_SDK%

Just another heads-up to others who may use multiple Android development tools.

I'm going to use a similar pattern for bash shell environment vars on the Mac too. Over there it will be:

 export ANDROID_SDK=$HOME/android-sdk-mac_86
 export ANDROID_HOME=$ANDROID_SDK
 export ANDROID_SDK_HOME=$ANDROID_SDK

I'm avoiding BlackBerry development for as long as possible-- to me, everything pre-BB 5.0 was more hassle than it was worth. (See John Resig comments on slide #28 here- http://www.slideshare.net/jeresig/testing-mobile-javascript.) I might consider some future version or the Playbook stuff.



Comment on PhoneGap Lessons Learned- Mac edition by J Haag
J Haag — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 02:03:16 +0000
Thanks for the tips and sharing Tom! I can totally relate on the updates for phonegap. I’ve been tinkering w/ iphone OS using phonegap, but really appreciate the tips for Android. Curious why you are using iUI? It was one of the first frameworks and seemed to be to dated/limited for me. I’ve found that iWebkit has the most potential to support older mobile browsers. For newer browsers, jQuerymobile.com seems most promising, but still in ALPHA.



Comment on PhoneGap Lessons Learned- Windows Edition by emaas
emaas — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:31:56 +0000
You know that ruby isn’t needed anymore?

There is a java version of the ruby in the phonegap folder.
Also take in mind, you that the andoid plugin for eclipse will bug the BB plugin (if you would want to use it).

Also if you want to test on a device i recomend installing HTC sync (if debugging on a HTC device that is).

Also, a lot of installation will bugg if you don’t have a global variable called:

ANDROID_SDK_HOME = %ANDROID_SDK%
Just a heads up and a tip for other developers.



Comment on PhoneGap Lessons Learned- Windows Edition by Tom King
Tom King — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:10:33 +0000
I agree, it worked great with Xcode. Likewise, I agree with Zachary below; once it is dialed in, it seems to just work. Updating your Android and Xcode projects to latest PhoneGap frameworks works well too.
Interesting comment about Adobe. Yesterday, I mentioned to someone that PhoneGap is to HTML/JavaScript as Adobe AIR is to Flash/ActionScript— a cross-platform wrapper/extender that provides consistency and more access to OS capabilities than the “un- wrapped/extended” source.



Comment on PhoneGap Lessons Learned- Windows Edition by Zachary Kent
Zachary Kent — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:37:50 +0000
Nice writeup.  My experience was very similar.  Now that I have PG setup, it is very easy to use.  PhoneGap might make some more progress if they could somehow make an setup process that doesn’t take a new developer 20 hours to setup and configure to test it out the first time.