PhoneGap Beginner’s Guide is the most informative source of information I’ve seen/read about PhoneGap. It is a great resource for learning all the nuances that go into making native PhoneGap applications on mobile devices. If you are looking to use PhoneGap, it would be a good idea to start with this book. It really is a comprehensive yet easy-to-read book on using PhoneGap.
Android and iPhone apps built with PhoneGap are (because of PhoneGap’s nature) compiled code, and because this compiled code is not a browser, you can execute cross-domain requests. In this short tutorial, I’ll provide some sample code for sending a POST request to a remote server.
I was going to be hosting a web site for a company using GoDaddy, but this company’s old site and domain were hosted and controlled somewhere else. With this situation, the problem I faced was that I needed to change the site’s DNS record (zone file) to point to the new website (by changing the ns records) but make sure that email delivery didn’t get interrupted.
I recently started looking at PhoneGap as a way to build native smartphone applications without having to learn another programming language. The process, so far, has been going very well. I’ve been able to build a basic application with very little trouble. I did, however, hit a big hiccup in development when I decided to try and upload a file from a phone to a remote location. In this post, I want to explain how I was able to upload a photo from a phone, using PhoneGap (and PHP on the remote server), to a remote server.
With a variety of resources in tow, I’ve been able to quickly release the first chunk of CSS behind a media query on nnu.edu. This process was mostly pain free, fast, and fun; but it came with a few problems to solve, three of which I’d like to quickly overview for web developers who may face similar challenges.